Idioms, Expressions, and Phrasal Verbs

Slang: G | H | I

Listening assignments: from Engines of our Ingenuity

Amerigo Vespucci
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi43.htm

Reading assignments:

The Girls in their Summer Dresses, by Irwin Shaw (1978) MS Word doc

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

10 Food

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Quotations about food and drink
http://www.bartleby.com/63/73/6373.html

Listening assignments: from Engines of our Ingenuity

Wheat and Farming
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi20.htm

Proverbs
http://abceda.com/proverbs1.htm

1. Descriptive Essay: Young Lions, Young Ladies
   http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/cyberspace/lions.html
2. Descriptive Essay: H's Hickory Chips
   http://www.thewritesource.com/STUDENTMODELS/WI-Hickory.htm

Tense Consistency Exercise
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_tensecEX1.html

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

09 Fashion

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Quotations about fashion
http://www.bartleby.com/63/34/6034.html

Listening assignments: from Engines of our Ingenuity

Streamlining and Fashion
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1029.htm

Vital Summer Fashion

Rhetorical Strategies for Descriptive writing
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/descript.html

Organizing Descriptive Detail http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/composition/descriptivedetail.htm

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

14 Male & Female Roles

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Listening

1. Victorian Working Women
   http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi811.htm
2. Women in Flight
   http://www.uh.edu/engines/womfly.htm

3. Women Have Been Leaders in Science Throughout History http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2006-09-19-voa1.cfm

1. The Value of Women's Work
2. Women's work
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/welfare/womens_work_01.shtml
3. A Woman's work is never done Online Exhibition
   http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/

More Reading

Women and the New Race (1920) Margaret Sanger
http://www.bartleby.com/1013/1.html
The chronicle of Sanger’s decades-long battle to legalize and develop information on the prevention of venereal disease and then methods of birth control, during which she endured indictment, exile and prison.

Discussion Topics
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/discuss.html

03 The Arts

* Odd Man Out Vocabulary Exercise
* Short Text for Dictation
* Dialogue for Pronunciation & Techniques
* Discussion Questions

Listening

1. Couch Potato: Life as a Full-time Television Watcher
   http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2006-08/2006-08-20-voa1.cfm
2. Dates http://www.esl-lab.com/date1/date1.htm
3. Calendar dictation   http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/dictations/rodspeople/calendar12/calendar.htm

1. David's Haircut
   http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DaviHair.shtml
2. The Great Mysteries of Korea
   http://www.geocities.com/esl_korea/John.html

More Reading

1. Reading Signs in English
   http://www.manythings.org/signs/
2. History of Disneyland
   http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/stories/index.pl?read=212

Pronunciation

1. Match the sounds
   http://abceda.com/soundmatch1.htm
2. Rhyming words
   http://abceda.com/pronunc3.htm

Reading: Quiz

1. How Coyote Stole Fire
   http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/coyote.pdf
2. The Rabbit Grows a Crop of Money http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/kalulu.pdf

Grammar:

1. Subject-Verb Agreement:
   http://a4esl.org/q/j/kf/mc-svad.html
2. Verb Quiz
   http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/padisast1.htm

Vocabulary:

1. TOEIC 16
   http://www.english-test.net/toeic/vocabulary/words/016/toeic-test.php
2. Pictures of Food
   http://esl.about.com/od/engilshvocabulary/ig/Visual-Dictionary---Food/index.htm

Listening:

1. Dog Talk: Most Dogs in the U.S. Seem to Have an Easy Life
   http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2006-05/2006-05-31-voa3.cfm
2. Bird Words: Someone Who Eats Like a Bird Eats Very Little
   http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2006-05/2006-05-21-voa4.cfm

Speaking activities

1. Here's the response - what's the question?
   http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/nblask1.htm
2. Asking questions
   http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/nblask2.htm
3. Question/Response with Verb Tense Student A, Student B
4. Ocean Fish discussion starter

English Baby
http://www.englishbaby.com/

Pronunciation

1. Stress and Intonation
   http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/blstress.htm
2. Conversations with Sarah
   http://www.geocities.com/thedailyenglishshow/
   conversationswithsarahlistapril.html

Reading:

1. National Genographic Project
   https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
2. Skull suggests Human-Neandertal relationship
3. Korean Folk Tales
   http://park.org/Korea/Pavilions/PublicPavilions/KoreaImage/hangul/litera/
4. More Korean Folk Tales
   http://www.geocities.com/ifenkl/koreanfolktales.html
5. Selected Fables
   http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel.html

Grammar:

1. Advanced time expressions
   http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_timeexpress1.htm

Vocabulary:

1. Goal oriented phrases: Contrasting Ideas
   http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_contrast.htm
2. "May" or "Might"
   http://www.miguelmllop.com/practice/intermediate/verbtenses/may.htm

Grammar:

1. Confusing Words http://esl.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/a_confused.htm
2. Frequency Adverbs
   http://english-zone.com/verbs/freq-adv01.html

Reading:

1. Red Wine
2. Seven Wonders of the World
3. Zen Stories

Pronunciation

1. final -d, -ed
   http://english-zone.com/teach/pdf-files/wksht-final-ed.pdf
2. Odd Sound Out
   http://english-zone.com/teach/pdf-files/odd1out-sue-shoe-zoo-vision.pdf
3. I'm the kind of person, who .....
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZjrOYt1v6s
4. International Dialects of English (audio samples and text)
   http://web.ku.edu/idea/

Vocabulary:

1. Unless or Only if
   http://english-zone.com/grammar/unless01.html
2. Verbs of Motion
   http://abceda.com/moverb.html
3. Gimme a Break
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWk10GVOtug
4. Improper English: The "F" word
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dga5HhON5RM