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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 Lessons: See the Future

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This video can be used to used to create a English writing or listening lesson for ESL students.

This ESL exercise is based on an interview with Arthur C. Clarke. He was a writer and scientist who spent a lot of time thinking about the future.

It was recorded in 1974, a time when a computer filled

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ESL Listening: Week 9 Activities and Lessons

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The mid term exams are over. Now it’s time for my English students to start building ESL listening skills.

Subway Video

This English listening lesson  is a video about the New York subway system. Here is the video link.

Vocabulary

rush hour, dispatcher, crisis, delay, re-route

Comprehension Questions

  1. How many people live in New York City?
  2. Why is the subway important to the people in New York?
  3. How many people ride the subway every day?
  4. How many people can ride on one train during rush hour?

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