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Lesson 1

  • Beginner:  I Wanted to Be a Fireman     Featured Grammar Focus:  Articles
  • Intermediate:  What Do Children Really Need?   Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns
  • Advanced:  Will Adam Enlist?   Featured Grammar Focus:  Conditional Sentences

Lesson 2

  • Beginner:   Buddhist Prayer Sticks   Featured Grammar Focus:  Nouns and Pronouns
  • Intermediate:  Why Are Some Rich and Others Poor?     Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation
  • Advanced: What My Uncle Told Me about Marriage    Featured Grammar Focus:  Passive Voice

Lesson 3

  • Beginner:   Friday Nights by the Black Sea   Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
  • Intermediate:   A New Day   Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases
  • Advanced:   Stress Everywhere   Featured Grammar Focus:  Punctuation

Lesson 4

  • Beginner:   Cross-country Skiing   Featured Grammar Focus:  Articles
  • Intermediate:  My Wedding    Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs
  • Advanced:  Thoughts about Handling Conflicts  Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases

Lesson 5

  • Beginner:   Money and Love  Featured Grammar Focus:   Nouns and Pronouns
  • Intermediate:  Where Is the Moon Tonight? Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Advanced:   Winners and Losers  Featured Grammar Focus: Indirect (Reported) Speech

Lesson 6

  • Beginner:   Everybody Waits for Friday Night Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (Passive Voice, Indirect Speech)
  • Intermediate:  The Day My Daughter Was Born  Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs
  • Advanced:   Crime and Punishment in Liberia  Featured Grammar Focus: Passive Voice

Lesson 7

  • Beginner:  Do You Pray before You Take a Test?  Featured Grammar Focus: Prepositions
  • Intermediate:  The Blues and Greens of Ecuador  Featured Grammar Focus:  Sentence Structure
  • Advanced:   My Sleepy Husband   Featured Grammar Focus: Indirect (Reported) Speech

Lesson 8

  • Beginner:   Money and Love  Featured Grammar Focus: Questions
  • Intermediate:  Where Is the Moon Tonight?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Sentence Structure
  • Advanced:  The Immigrant: Determined to Work Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (gerunds and infinitives, passive voice, verb forms)

Lesson 9

  • Beginner:  Cross-country Skiing   Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
  • Intermediate:  Life Is Beautiful  Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (articles, adjectives and adverbs, nouns, prepositions, verbs
  • Advanced:  Young Hearts Should Be Happy  Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (adjectives and nouns, gerunds and infinitive phrases, modals, punctuation, verbs)

Lesson 10

  • Beginner:  How I Saved Somebody's Life   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  Serving in the Israeli Military  Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
  • Advanced:   Freedom of Speech    Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation

Lesson 11

  • Beginner:  My Wedding   Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation
  • Intermediate:   Everybody Waits for Friday Night  Featured Grammar Focus:  Possessives
  • Advanced:  Will Adam Enlist?    Featured Grammar Focus: Conditional Sentences

Lesson 12

  • Beginner:  The Mexican Goat  Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag verb tense, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure)
  • Intermediate:  My Wedding  Featured Grammar Focus:  Sentence Structure
  • Advanced:   Questions I Ask Myself    Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Lesson 13

  • Beginner:  This Writing Just Confuses Me   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  "Juan de Pareja" by Diego Velazquez  Featured Grammar Focus:  Possessives
  • Advanced:   What Is a Miracle?    Featured Grammar Focus: Questions

Lesson 14

  • Beginner:  My First Week at College   Featured Grammar Focus: Articles
  • Intermediate:  What Do Children Really Need?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Sentence Structure
  • Advanced:   Drugs and Human Nature    Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (articles, gerunds and infinitive phrases, passive and active voice verbs and verb forms, verbs, nouns, adjectives)

Lesson 15

  • Beginner:  The Blues and Greens of Ecuador   Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns
  • Intermediate:   Adapting to Life in the United States  Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation
  • Advanced:   Life Is Beautiful    Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (verbs, articles, nouns, sentence structure, adjectives and adverbs)

Lesson 16

  • Beginner:   A Very Bad Experience at the Moscow Airport   Featured Grammar Focus: Prepositions
  • Intermediate:   When Children Commit Crimes  Featured Grammar Focus: Possessives
  • Advanced:   My Views on Divorce    Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs

Lesson 17

  • Beginner:   Leaving Honduras   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  Fantasies and Reality  Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns
  • Advanced:  Doing It My Own Way    Featured Grammar Focus: Indirect Speech

Lesson 18

  • Beginner:   At the Moscow Airport   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  Take Your Time!  Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag Articles, Modals, Prepositions, Sentence Structure)
  • Advanced:  The Boy Who Divorced His Birth Mother    Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling

Lesson 19

  • Beginner:  Everybody Waits for Friday Night   Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling
  • Intermediate:  Doing It My Way  Featured Grammar Focus: Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases
  • Advanced:  Long-Lasting Solutions to Our Problems  Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns

Lesson 20

  • Beginner:  A Love Story of Two Flowers  Featured Grammar Focus:  Punctuation
  • Intermediate: Why Am I Always So Tense?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Questions
  • Advanced:  More Questions I Ask Myself    Featured Grammar Focus:  Conditional Sentences

Lesson 21

  • Beginner:  I Wanted to Be a Fireman   Featured Grammar Focus: Prepositions
  • Intermediate:  My Wedding  Featured Grammar Focus: Punctuation
  • Advanced:  Take Your Time!    Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag (articles, models, prepositions, sentence structure)

Lesson 22

  • Beginner:  Buddhist Prayer Sticks   Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  Education in Pakistan  Featured Grammar Focus: Spelling
  • Advanced:  Frank Shabata: Blinded by Anger    Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (conditional sentences, passive and active voice, possessives, punctuation, spelling, verbs)

Lesson 23

  • Beginner:   The Day My Daughter Was Born   Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
  • Intermediate:  What Do Children Need?  Featured Grammar Focus:  Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases
  • Advanced:  The Right to Privacy    Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

Lesson 24

  • Beginner:  Do You Pray before You Take a Test?   Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns
  • Intermediate:  Solving Family Problems  Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Advanced:  My Hopes for China    Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (nouns and pronouns, sentence structure, verbs)

Lesson 25

  • Beginner:  Friday Nights by the Black Sea   Featured Grammar Focus: Possessives
  • Intermediate:  Not a Ghost Story  Featured Grammar Focus: Nouns and Pronouns
  • Advanced:  Would You Be Happy?  Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag

Lesson 26

  • Beginner:   My First Week of College    Featured Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure
  • Intermediate:  Truth or Lies? Featured Grammar Focus:  Mixed Bag
  • Advanced:  The Right to Privacy    Featured Grammar Focus:  Possessives

Lesson 27

  • Beginner:   Money and Love    Featured Grammar Focus: Articles
  • Intermediate:  Solving Family Problems   Featured Grammar Focus:  Spelling
  • Advanced:  My Hopes for China    Featured Grammar Focus: Mixed Bag (Level Three)

Lesson 28

  • Beginner:   Everybody Waits for Friday Night    Featured Grammar Focus: Verbs
  • Intermediate:  Doing It My Way    Featured Grammar Focus:  Verbs

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