{"id":593,"date":"2015-09-13T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/?page_id=593"},"modified":"2015-09-17T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T20:17:30","slug":"our-inner-circle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/our-inner-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Inner Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>What is our Inner Circle?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here you will find deeper work with grammar and listening.\u00a0 You will choose from three levels:\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Beginner<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Intermediate<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Advanced<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For each lesson, Listen to and Read Your Favorite ESL Essays &#8211; All Written by Learners of English.\u00a0 The essays, however, are full of grammar errors. Your job is to read and correct the errors.<\/p>\n<p>Next, <b>read<\/b> the corrected versions of those essays to <b>compare<\/b> with your results.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style48\">You can also <\/span><b>listen<\/b> to the <b>MP3<\/b> files of these essays, <b>recorded by native speakers!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"style13\">Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style36\"><em>Would you like some practice with pronunciation?\u00a0 <span class=\"style39\">Download <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Audacity<\/a> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"style39\"><em>and record yourself reading the essay!\u00a0 Compare your reading to the original.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style13\">Click below to begin:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style37\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eslhelpdesk.com\/InnerCircle\/InnerCircle_Lesson_1.htm\">Lesson 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"style35\">Beginner:<\/span> <span class=\"style41\">I Wanted to Be a Fireman<\/span>&gt;\u00a0 Featured Grammar Focus: <strong>\u00a0Articles<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style35\">Intermediate:<\/span> <span class=\"style41\">What Do Children Really Need?<\/span>\u00a0 Featured Grammar Focus:\u00a0 <strong>Nouns and Pronouns<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style35\">Advanced:<\/span> <span class=\"style41\">Will Adam Enlist?\u00a0 <\/span> Featured Grammar Focus:\u00a0 <strong>Conditional Sentences<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is our Inner Circle? Here you will find deeper work with grammar and listening.\u00a0 You will choose from three levels:\u00a0 Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. For each lesson, Listen to and Read Your Favorite ESL Essays &#8211; All Written by Learners of English.\u00a0 The essays, however, are full of grammar errors. Your job is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eslhelpdesk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}