E2 2009 Writing Blog

Welcome to the E2 blog. Mondo's E2 Writing Class Blog for YMCA Students (Creative writing project focused on making students write regularly - Work is edited by students themselves). Each week, students will be contributing some work to this area. What to do? Each week you must write a 50 word blog entry on a topic. It can be on any subject, but should be done by Friday each week.Choose topics to write about, get it checked by someone, and then publish it on the blog - it's that easy!

GC1 2009 Writing Blog

Mondo's GC1 Writing Class Blog for YMCA English Course Students (Creative writing project focused on making students write regularly - Work is edited by students themselves).Each week, students will be contributing some work to this area.
What to do? Each week you must write a 50~100 words directly to the blog. It can be on any subject, but should be e-mailed to your teacher by Friday each week.
Topic
Choose a topic to write about, get it checked by someone, and then get it published.

3. Graded Readers (click here) for Teachers and Students

This area is devoted to providing materials for teaching and learning using graded readers. There are various levels spread across a number of different publishers. All graded readers are easily available from bookstores carrying English language materials, or directly from the publishers themselves.




Lessons Using Graded Readers
1. The Prince and the Pauper (Penguin Level 2)
2. The Man in the Iron Mask (Macmillan Level 2)
3. The Canterville Ghost and other stories (Macmillan Level 3)
4. The Phantom of the Opera (Macmillan Level 2)
5. The Black Cat (Macmillan Level 3)
6. Drive into Danger (Oxford Starter)
7. The Long Tunnel (Macmillan level 2)
8. Mine Boy (Macmillan level 6)

6. Voice of America (VOA) ~ Special English lessons (click here)

Visit the pages on this site for interesting and informative stories created in special English for ESL students.

Lesson
1. Have a headache, you're not alone
2. American Orchestra performs in North Korea
3. WHO Sees Tobacco Risk to a Billion Lives This Century
4. How to Do It: Making Paper by Hand
5. Music Would Not be the Same Without the Guitar

1. Mondos link to ELLLO Listening Activities (click here)

Visit the pages on this site for interesting and informative stories in natural English. There are many kinds of listening activities, worksheets, slide shows and explanations of specific aspects about the language used.

Special thanks to Simon for making me aware of this site, and the host of ELLLO for creating a valuable resource that everyone can benefit from.

Theme 1: Places where we live
Theme 2: Jobs and Career
Theme 3: Family
Theme 4: Pets
Theme 5: Three Meals a day
Theme 6: Daily Routines
Theme 7: T.V.
Theme 8: Learning Languages
Theme 9: Are you a shy person?
Theme 10: Favorite things

14. High Level Current Topics (click here)

Enter this site if you want to get some extra-reading practice on current topics in various newspapers.
Articles are roughly 300~500 words long.
There are also lessons with each reading.


Recommended Level of difficulty
- Students should have effective, but not perfect, use of English.

Student's ability: You can talk almost fluently and almost completely accurately. Everyday situations in an English-language environment do not worry you. You can take part in extended conversations or discussions and your vocabulary covers almost every circumstance. If you do not know a word you can almost always find a way of describing it. You have a knowledge of some idiomatic English, phrasal verbs, and colloquial expressions. You have studied all main areas of English grammar.

Equivalent to:

* IELTS score 5.5 - 6.5
* TOEFL iBT score 80
* TOEIC score 650 - 800

GC1 2008 Writing Blog

Mondo's GC1 Writing Class Blog for YMCA English Course Students (Creative writing project focussed on making students write regularly - Work is edited by students themselves) Welcome to the GC1 Writing Class Blog. Each week, students will be contributing some work to this area.
What to do? Each week you must write a 50~100 words directly to the blog. It can be on any subject, but should be e-mailed to your teacher by Friday each week.
Topic
Choose topics to write about, get it checked, and send it to your teacher to get them published.

Top of the Pops (support)

Background information and support material for Top of the Pops Listening, by Nobuhiro Kumai and Stephen Timson.
http://mondostoppops.blogspot.com/

E1 Writing Blog 2008/9 Semester 2

Mondo's E1 Writing Class Blog for YMCA English Course Students
(Creative writing project focussed on making students write regularly - Work is edited by students themselves) Welcome to the E1 Writing Class Blog. Each week, students will be contributing some work to this area.
What to do? Each week you must write a 50 word e-mail to your teacher. It can be on any subject, but should be e-mailed to your teacher by Friday each week.
Topic
Choose topics to write about, get it checked, and send it to your teacher to get them published.

17. Role Plays for the Classroom

This is a page devoted to collecting role-plays for the use in ESL/EFL classrooms.

1. Taxi Ride
2. Introductions
3. Appointments and arrangements