Teacher's Corner

This website by American English State Department is an invaluable resource for educators striving to enhance their English language teaching skills. This platform serves as a comprehensive hub that offers a wide range of teaching materials, strategies, and tools to promote effective language instruction.

The website hosts a plethora of resources, including lesson plans, activities, and professional development opportunities. 

This dynamic platform supports educators in staying up-to-date with the latest teaching methodologies and resources.

https://americanenglish.state.gov/teachers-corner

Common Errors in English Usage

Website of Professor Paul Brians. 

The site explains some of the most commonly misused and misunderstood aspects of English. You can access an alphabetical list of errors from the following link:

https://brians.wsu.edu/common-errors/

American English (Resources)

American English is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture. This website provides a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom. Both teachers and students will find new ways to practice English and learn more about the United States.

The Office of English Language Programs in Washington, D.C. provides academic expertise, advisory and consultative assistance, as well as materials and resources worldwide

(Source: https://americanenglish.state.gov/about-us)

https://americanenglish.state.gov/ 

Verse by Verse

Verse by Verse (a project from Google) is an experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets.

Each poet will try to offer suggestions that they think would best continue a poem in the style of that given poet. As such, try working with different poets to see whose style best meshes with your own.  Select the poets who inspire you and write your own first line of a poem.

Poems can be downloaded as images. 

https://sites.research.google/versebyverse/ 

Tools for Clear Speech (American English)

The Tools for Clear Speech (TfCS) program improves the pronunciation, fluency, and pragmatic abilities of English language learners (ELLs) and non-native English speakers at Baruch College (The City University of New York). 

On the Consonants and Vowels section you’ll find in-depth practice with each individual sound in Standard American English, as well as various combinations of sounds

Find it on:. 

https://tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu/consonants-vowels/ 

American English Dialect Course

Open Learning Inititative (OLI) from Carnegie Mellon University. A course (currently under development) for the pronunciation of the sounds of a Standard of American English Dialect. It supplies the necessary reinforcement of dialectical structure, audio, production technique and phonetic representation for each sound.

Follow the course on:

https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=df3c45870a0001dc4f2e84fe3e56803c

Newcomer Toolkit

This report was produced by the National Center for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) under U.S. Department of Education (Department) This tool kit helps U.S. educators and others who work directly with immigrant students and their families. 

It would also be interesting to develop intercultural communication and competence in our classrooms.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/newcomers-toolkit/ncomertoolkit.pdf

Everyday Conversations

Produced by the Office of English Language Programs (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) and the Office of Written Content (Bureau of International Information Programs), Everyday Conversations is intended for sixth- and seventh-grade students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL).

This resource can be used by teachers and learners. Students can listen to and/or read dialogues in American English. Topics of the conversations include introductions and small talk, shopping, asking for directions, hobbies, and giving advice.

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/b_dialogues_everyday_conversations_english_lo_0.pdf

Inglés americano 101

Canal de YouTube de Daniel Manzano con numerosos vídeos para aprender inglés (americano) muy orientado a vocabulario y expresiones y su pronunciación.

Desde la perspectiva de un hablante de español resulta interesante por su orientación práctica, por la referencia a multitud de situaciones reales y el esfuerzo por reflejar el uso corriente de la lengua. 

Así mismo, el hecho de que los contenidos se distribuyan en vídeos temáticos y de distinto nivel de complejidad hace un poco complicada su utilización sistemática, si bien como consulta o repaso de temas concretos es bastante aprovechable.

Aunque en su web ofrece también cursos de pago, podéis consultar de manera abierta multitud de materiales en:

https://www.youtube.com/user/inglesamericano101

https://www.youtube.com/user/inglesamericano101/videos

En Twitter: @IngAmericano101

En GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105770739804243293520

USA Learns

USA Learns, a free website for adults to learn English online. Here you can practice English speaking, reading, writing, listening, grammar, vocabulary and more. The website was originally launched in 2008. Since then, more than 7 million adults from around the world have visited it.

Their beginning and intermediate English courses include hundreds of educational videos that will teach you American English. USA Learns also has thousands of English learning activities and quizzes that let you know immediately if you answer correctly.

The following video explains how to start learning English free with USA Learns. You will learn how to register, choose an English course and sign in next time. When you register on USA Learns, your work will be saved and you’ll be able to see your scores. You only need to register once. Registering on USA Learns is easy and free. (Source USA Learns)

http://www.usalearns.org/

American English

American English is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture. This website provides a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom (classroom activities, audiobooks, MP3s, videos and pedagogical material to assist in learning English as a second language). Resources include popular American classics, in-house publications and links to U.S. government websites and podcasts 

Both teachers and students will find ways to practice English and learn more about the United States. 

 Visit:: http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources

The History of the English Language in Ten Animated Minutes

You can find this witty animated sequence that takes you through 1600 years of linguistic history on YouTube
Playlist (10 videos): 

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA03075BAD88B909E

An example: 

Rachel's English (American English pronunciation)

This website was created to help people improve their American English pronunciation. It explains in detail via video how each sound is created (sound chart, mouth positions, exercices and other resources about pronunciation)

http://www.rachelsenglish.com/

The audio and video text are also available.

Rachel’s English on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/RachelsEnglish.Pronunciation