A panoply of teaching resources.
Hi welcome to our short English class. I hope you learn a few English words and make time to learn a fe sentences to help your speaking ability.
This worksheet has some vocabulary exercises to help high school students learn English words and phrases, as well as pronunciation.
Here is an ESL writing exercise that begins with a poem and asks English students to write a considered response.
1 Read the poem O Me! Oh Life! by Walt Whitman.
2 Students write a response piece by briefly discussing their interpretation of the poem.
3 Students answer this question, based on the last part of the poem, “What verse will you contribute?”
O Me! O Life!
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish;
Does language change the way people think and see the world?
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Before the summer break, the ESL students had been studying the structure of arguments, fallacies and the power of analogies. This work helps the students learn English and engage in critical thinking in English.
Lots of people commit argumentative errors. Here is a quote form a recent Facebook entry. It’s a criticism of Noam Chomsky video and his expertise in political affairs.
“I don’t get this. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, not a political scientists. Who gives a crap what he had to say, really? It’s like when people post some political quote by Einstein with his picture on it, who, as a physicist, is no more qualified to give a political opinion than I am.”
Here’s the task.
How many fallacies and errors can you find in this argument written by a recent PhD graduate from Cambridge University?
Today we will take a different look at logic and arguments. That is, begin to understand the other side of the argument – when people don’t make any sense at all.
This video is part of a lesson related to language and logic. The objective is this lesson is to develop one understanding of why people don’t always think or behave rationally.