February 15, 2019 Week 5 Around Town/Communities

Week 5

Around Town/Communities

NYPL Google Drive (old wiki): Around Town/ Communities

NYPL Winter Curriculum: Winter 2019 Curriculum

WINTER WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:
(A) As a guide, give a tour of your neighborhood, OR
(B) Describe "my special NYC"--a place you love that's not in the guidebooks OR  
(C) Describe your first or a special experience at the New York Public Library

Ventures Arcade: http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/venturesadulted/venturesarcade/index.html

Ventures Teacher Resources: http://www.cambridge.org/ventures/resources

Ventures Streaming Audio http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/venturesadulted/venturesarcade/studentaudio/

TEACHING RESOURCES

Around Town/Communities

The Seed for a Good Life—This episode is about a man who has been moving from job to job, and wants a more stable, long-term career.  He learns about making a resume and other job skills at the Queens Public Library, and also visits and finds out about a community garden in his neighborhood.

Sonam's Mom—This one is a story including multiple taxi drivers.  There are a lot of opportunities to talk about the City, neighborhoods, transportation, various immigrant and national/ethnic communities, and more.

Crossing the Street—Set in Sunset Park, this is a story about two young people from different places (one from China, one from Latin America), who live, work and are involved in schools in the Sunset Park neighborhood.  They meet and get to know each other, and sharing and enjoying their backgrounds and cultures with one another.  Lots of topics around neighborhood and neighbors, meeting and interacting with people from many other cultures, schools and school choices, cultural traditions around food, etc.

TEACHER READING

Voice recording in language learning is nothing new, but it has become a lot easier. Once upon a time, the audio-lingual method was very popular and language labs contained what was then cutting edge technology. Teachers have also been able to record students using tape recorders or dictaphones. Nowadays, using smartphones, students can easily record themselves speaking and share it instantly. The ideas presented here are aimed at teens and adults but voice recording can be done with younger learners too.

Read the entire blog post here: 

Getting smart with speaking: voice recording in language learning

CALENDAR

Monday, February 18: NYPL CLOSED
NYC Public Schools are closed 2/18 - 2/22
(you might have higher absence rates this week) 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Call for Proposals 

NYS TESOL 49th Annual Conference

Strategies for Success: Supporting English/Multi-Language Learners in All Learning Environments

November 14th-16th, 2019 - Crowne Plaza, White Plains, NY

http://ac19.nystesol.org

Submit all proposals online at:  https://tinyurl.com/ac19-prop.  

NYS TESOL is currently inviting proposal submissions related to the conference theme within the following nine categories:

• Adult Education
• Applied Linguistics
• Bilingual Education
• Elementary Education
• Higher Education
• Secondary Education
• Special Education
• Teacher Education
• Teaching English Internationally

 

There will be five different types of sessions at the 2019 conference:  

1) 70 minute workshop
2) 70 minute panel
3) 35 minute paper presentation
4) 20 minute teaching tip

5) Poster presentation

 

You may submit up to three proposals as the lead or co-presenter.  

Submit all proposals online at:  https://tinyurl.com/ac19-prop.  

Proposal deadline is May 1, 2019.  

Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 15, 2019.

For more information, please contact:

Monica Baker, VP Conference, Vpconference@nystesol.org

Carmen Diaz, Proposals Chair, proposals@nystesol.org

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