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EPISODE 38: My Pet, My Dog

EPISODE 37: Paper or Plastic?

EPISODE 36: Barak Obama

EPISODE 35: Definitely Fattening

EPISODE 34: I'll Have That!

EPISODE 33: I Hate Finals!

EPISODE 32: Code Name ESL

EPISODE 31: The Inner Circle

EPISODE 30: I'm Going

EPISODE 29: The Green Monster: Hold, Please

EPISODE 28: Traffic

EPISODE 27: American Thanksgiving

EPISODE 26: More Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

EPISODE 25: What Should I Bring?"

EPISODE 24: Nine Answers

EPISODE 23: Sentence Structure and Parts of Speech: He's Always Talking about Grammar

EPISODE 22: Open-ended Questions: Nine Questions

EPISODE 21: Summertime

EPISODE 20: How to End a Formal Letter: Dear Help Desk, Part 2

EPISODE 19: Solving Family Problems

EPISODE 18: How to Begin a Formal Letter: Dear Help Desk, Part 1

EPISODE 17: How to Arrange a Social Get-together: It's a Date!

EPISODE 16: The Blues and Greens of Ecuador

EPISODE 15: How to Make and Respond to Suggestions:
Get Me to the Train Station On Time

EPISODE 14: How to Ask for and Give a Recipe: Yum...I'd Love That Recipe!

EPISODE 13: Cross-country Skiing

EPISODE 12: How Have You Been: The Present Perfect Tense:Introduction

EPISODE 11: This Writing Just Confuses Me

EPISODE 10: Quantifying Countable and Noncountable Nouns

EPISODE 9: Countable Nouns: Regular and Irregular Forms

EPISODE 8: Juan de Pareja"

EPISODE 7: How to Express Concern: Are You Okay?

EPISODE 6: How I Saved Somebody's Life"

EPISODE 5: How to Begin a Telephone Conversation: This is Luis

EPISODE 4: Modals: would and will, Expressing Wish or Desire

EPISODE 3: My Wedding", by Sonia Diaz

EPISODE 2: How to Express Gratitude: Thank You Very Much!

EPISODE 1: Interview with Author: Getting to Know Me

INDEX

Audio of Easy Writer Stories	The Grammar HELP! Handbook Online	Podcasts of English Grammar Lessons
Activites for Listening Comprehension	How To's	American Holidays, Traditions, and History
Miscellaneous Podcast Topics	Reading (all materials free and available online)	and more on its way!

B = Beginner I = Intermediate A = Advanced

Podcasts and Grammar Lessons

Gerunds and Infinitives: An Introduction
Modals: would and will
The Pronoun: this in Telephone Conversations
One, Two, Three Little Countable Nouns: Regular and Irregular Forms
Quantifying Countable and Noncountable Nouns
The Present Perfect Tense: Introduction
The Present Perfect Tense: An Audio Story
Sentence Structure and Parts of Speech: He's Always Talking about Grammar
Present Perfect Continuous: How've You Been Feeling?
Using Present Continuous Tense to Indicate Future Time Reference: I'm Going
Demonstrative Pronouns: I'll Have That!
Demonstrative Pronouns, cont.: Definitely Fattening

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READING

Ellis Island (I and A) Reading: ellisisland.org

AUDIO of EASY WRITER STORIES

"My Wedding" by Sonia Diaz (B and I)
"How I Saved Somebody's Life" by Aleksander Vishnevetsky (B)
"Juan de Pareja" by Zinaida Kitaychik (I and A)
"This Writing Just Confuses Me" by Alexandre Shteynberg (I)
"My First Day at College" by Andrey Chechin (B)
"My Views on Divorce" by Tung Mei Ni (I and A)
"Cross-country Skiing" by Stella Rasporskaya and Gennadiy Gelzayd (B & I)
"The Blues and Greens of Ecuador" by Wilfrido Lopez
"Solving Family Problems" by Adimir Ramos (B, low I)

(Podcasts) ACTIVITIES FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Cloze and Dictation: "How I Saved Somebody's Life"
Oral Communication: Expressing Concern (all levels)
Interview with Author: Getting to Know Me (all levels)
True/False Questions and Practice with Adjectives: "Juan de Pareja"
Open-ended Questions: Nine Questions (all levels)
Nine Answers (intermediate to advanced)
Climate Change (source material: The EPA website)

(Podcasts) HOW TO's

How to Express Concern: Are You Okay? (all levels)
How to Express Gratitude: Thank You Very Much! (all levels)
How to Express Wish or Desire: Would You Please.... (all levels)
How to Begin a Telephone Conversation: This is Luis (all levels)
How to Ask for and Give a Recipe: Yum...I'd Love That Recipe!
How to Make and Respond to Suggestions: Get Me to the Train Station On Time (all levels)
How to Arrange a Social Get-together: It's a Date! (all levels)
How to Begin a Formal Letter: Dear Help Desk, Part 1 (all levels)
How to End a Formal Letter: Dear Help Desk, Part 2 (all levels)
You've Been Invited to a Party! What Should You Bring? (all levels)
How to Talk about Traffic
Telephone Frustration. The Green Monster: Hold, Please. (all levels)
How to Avoid Pointing (and Other Embarrassing Situations): I'll Have That! (Beginner and Low-Intermediate)

(Podcasts) AMERICAN HOLIDAYS, TRADITIONS, AND HISTORY
SEASONS OF THE YEAR

(Podcasts) MISCELLANEOUS PODCAST TOPICS

I Hate Finals!
Give Me a Break!
Paper or Plastic? The State of Recycling in America (high beginner to advanced)
My Pet, My Dog: Americans' Love Affair with Pets (high beginner to advanced)
Code Name ESL

The ENGLISH Grammar HELP! Handbook ONLINE!

CHAPTERS

Articles and Noun Determiners	Active and Passive Voice	Adjectives and Adverbs
Conditional Sentences	Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases	Reported Speech
Nouns and Pronouns	Possessives	Prepositions
Punctuation	Questions	Sentence Structure
Verbs and Modals	and more lessons on their way!	Today's Date