Learner’s guide to resources on americanenglish.state.
gov
Downloadable materials for learning English
American Teens Talk! English Club Texts and Materials
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The interviews in American Teens On this page you’ll find everything you
Talk! give learners a view into the lives of need to get started creating, managing,
adolescents in the U.S. and facilitating English clubs wherever
Level: intermediate to advanced you are.
Level: beginner to advanced
In the Loop Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A.
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In The Loop is a reference guide to Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. discusses
American English idioms. Holidays celebrated in the United States.
Level: intermediate to advanced Level: intermediate to advanced
Design for Drama: Short Plays from About the U.S.A.
American Literature http://bit.ly/AboutUSA
http://bit.ly/Design4Drama About the U.S.A. is an American Studies
Design for Drama features a number of reader that examines the customs,
plays that are adapted from well-known government, and history of the United
American short stories and poems. States of America.
Level: upper-intermediate to advanced Level: intermediate to advanced
Everyday Conversations: Learning Sing Out Loud!
American English Three music albums chockful
http://bit.ly/AEEverydayConversations of American songs that can
Everyday Conversations contains be used to help learn English.
conversations including introductions and Traditional Songs
small talk, shopping, asking for directions, http://bit.ly/SOL_Traditional
hobbies, and giving advice. American Rhythms
Level: Beginner http://bit.ly/SOL_AmRhythms
Children’s Songs
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
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These Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) help pre-intermediate,
intermediate, and advanced level learners improve their English skills
in five major career fields. Each MOOC is self-paced and is five weeks
long. These courses are open and fully available for free. Currently
available courses include English for Media Literacy, English for STEM
fields, English for Business and Entrepreneurship, English for
Journalism, and English for Career Development.
Graded Readers with Supporting Audio
To Build a Fire and Other Stories The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Jack London's To Build a Fire and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an
Other Stories is one of the most adaptation of a Mark Twain classic that is
famous collections of stories of considered one of the great American
survival in the wilderness. novels.
Level: intermediate Level: low-intermediate to intermediate
The Adventures of Huckleberry The Red Badge of Courage and Other
Finn Stories
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The Adventures of Huckleberry The Red Badge of Courage and Other
Finn is an adaptation of Mark Stories is an adaptation of Stephen Crane
Twain’s timeless novel about classics.
Huckleberry Finn and his Edgar Allan Poe: Storyteller Level: intermediate
adventures on the Mississippi River. http://bit.ly/AE_Poe
Level: intermediate to advanced Edgar Allan Poe: Storyteller contains The Autobiography of Mark Twain
seven popular Poe stories. http://bit.ly/AE_MarkTwain
The Gift of the Magi and Other Level: upper intermediate to advanced The Autobiography of Mark Twain is an
Stories adaptation of Twain’s autobiography.
http://bit.ly/AE_Magi Level: upper intermediate to advanced
The classic short story The Gift of
the Magi is the most famous of O.
Henry's stories.
Level: upper intermediate to
advanced
Other Resources
Voice of America Resources U.S. Department of State Bureau of International
Voice of America’s Learning English Information Programs’ ShareAmerica Everyday
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/ Conversations Series
http://bit.ly/ShareAmericaTalk
VOA’s Learning English is a multimedia source of news and
information so people can read, listen, and learn American The Everyday Conversations series follows a family traveling
English through online texts, MP3s, and podcasts. The through the United States. Listen in on their conversations to
captioned videos are written using vocabulary at the learn new vocabulary and facts about each state.
intermediate and upper-beginner levels, and the programs
are read one-third slower than normal English speed. VOA
also offers the “Let’s Learn English” video courses, which
include instruction in speaking, vocabulary and writing.
Social Media
American English at State Facebook page American English YouTube
http://bit.ly/AEatState Channel
The American English at State Facebook page http://bit.ly/AmEng_YouTube
provides English language learning materials for
learners worldwide. Updated with new graphics or videos This channel houses past webinars, teaching methodology
daily, this page invites a community of language learners to videos, and short animated videos for learners and teachers
communicate and practice their English language skills and to of English.
share content with others.
