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Rob Whyte is a university teacher, teacher trainer and writer.

ESL Listening: Grow Rice Lesson

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Here is an ESL listening activity that helps English students hear and understand words and phrases related to farming. This lesson also helps students improve their ability to describe lists of events.

Growing Rice Video Lesson

Here is the link to watch the ESL Video about growing rice: ESL lesson grow rice.

Vocabulary

tractor, organic, chemicals, variables, harvest, bin, hull

Comprehension

  1. Why does the farmer like to grow rice?
  2. Where is his farm?
  3. What kind of farmer is he?
  4. What is organic farming?

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ESL Listening: Ancient Tombs Lesson

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This ESL activity helps English students improve their listening and vocabulary skills with a video about ancient Egypt. The video is from National Geographic.

Video: Tombs of Ancient Egypt

The link for this ESL video is here: ESL-video-Egypt.

Vocabulary

civilisation, pharaoh, embalm, life after death, linen, tomb, monument

Comprehension

  1. Where did ancient Egypt start?
  2. When did it start?
  3. How long did kings rule Egypt?
  4. Name four things the ancient Egyptians made or built.

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ESL Listening: Week 10 Videos and Activities

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Here are the ESL listening videos for week 10 of our class to help students learn and improve their English skills.

Machu Picchu Video

Here is an ESL listening video about Machu Picchu, a famous city in Peru.

Focus

This ESL listening video is about a couple that breaks up.

Cook Pasta

Here is  cooking video with lots of imperatives. It’s about al dente pasta.

Vocabulary

al dente, quart,  tongs, colander, boil. twirl, bon appetite

Questions

  1. How much water is needed for every pound of pasta?
  2. Why use tongs to stir the pasta?
  3. What should you do if you see a white line inside the pasta?
  4. Describe how to make good pasta.

Friends – Cake – Part 2

Here is the worksheet for Part 2 of Friends – The Cake.

Ancient Egypt

Here is a short ESL listening activity about the ancient Egyptians.

Growing Rice Video Lesson

The listening lesson about rice farming is here: ESL-video-lesson-rice.