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Manny’s excellent advice for students of English as a Second Language
The same video WITHOUT the subtitles is here:
Level: Upper Intermediate
Students of English: To improve your pronunciation, watch the version WITHOUT subtitles before reading the subtitled versions! Listen several times before reading.
Real English English as a Second Language: Videos for Students and Teachers
This is the fourth lesson on conditionals. In this lesson we turn our attention to unreal conditional statements in the present time. Level: high intermediate – advanced.
Questions, such as “What’s the most beautiful language?” designed to elicit replies usig the superlative and comparative forms of adjectives -for pre-intermediate students
Real English English as a Second Language: Videos for Students and Teachers
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Language learners often freeze up or completely stop communicating when they hit a point of language that they dont know how to navigate. Antonio Graceffo teaches his students that it is OK to make mistakes. And when they dont know how to say something, they should describe it or talk around it. To demonstrate, Antonio tells a Chinese story to his students, and has them keep a tally of his mistakes in spoken Chinese. In spite of his more than 40 mistakes, the students understood the whole story.
Manny’s excellent advice for students of 
In this lesson we take a look at words connected with being happy and feeling sad.
This is the fourth lesson on conditionals. In this lesson we turn our attention to unreal conditional statements in the present time. Level: high intermediate – advanced.
Questions, such as “What’s the most beautiful language?” designed to elicit replies usig the superlative and comparative forms of adjectives -for pre-intermediate students
http://www.RivoliRevue.com Buy the video on DVD or buy the CD. This is the newest video and song written and performed by Ron and Kay Rivoli of the Rivoli Revue. Please be sure to register with Youtube so you can rate and comment on the video. If you have a website we would really appreciate you adding a link to the video. We need your help to spread the word. And folks, that’s written in plain 
This is the third lesson on conditionals. In this segment we look at conditional statements with “unless.” Level: high intermediate.
Chalk ‘n’ Talk, available to download from http://businessenglishpod.com, is a series of ESL video lessons exploring advanced 
Language learners often freeze up or completely stop communicating when they hit a point of language that they dont know how to navigate. Antonio Graceffo teaches his students that it is OK to make mistakes. And when they dont know how to say something, they should describe it or talk around it. To demonstrate, Antonio tells a Chinese story to his students, and has them keep a tally of his mistakes in spoken Chinese. In spite of his more than 40 mistakes, the students understood the whole story.
