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ESL Basic Subject-Verb Sentences Lesson
This lesson plan was written to teach elementary school children basic sentences with the most common verbs, and subjects I, we, and the imperative you.
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ESL Basic Directions Lesson
This lesson plan was written to teach elementary school children how to correctly give and receive directions for movement, "Go left, right, back, and straight."
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ESL Basic Please and Thank You Lesson
This lesson plan was written to teach elementary school children how to correctly use polite English words including "Please" and "Thank you."
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ESL Basic Animals Lesson
This lesson plan was written to teach elementary school children how to engage in English conversations about which animals they like.
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ESL Basic Sports Lesson
This lesson plan was written for elementary school children as their introduction to simple sports in English, as well as the "Do you like (something)?" grammar.
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ESL Intermediate Body Parts Lesson
This lesson plan was written for elementary school children to introduce/review English body part vocabulary and apply it to the sentence "My (part of the body) hurts."
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ESL Basic Vegetables Lesson
This lesson plan was written for elementary school first graders as their introduction to 11 simple vegetables in English.
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ESL Basic Colors Lesson
This lesson was written for elementary school first graders as their introduction to 11 simple colors in English.
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ESL Basic Numbers Lesson
This lesson was written for elementary school first graders as their introduction to numbers, 1 to 11, in English.
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ESL Basic Introduction Lesson
This lesson was written for elementary school first graders as their very first English lesson, an introduction to English greetings.
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Earned Value Management
Earned value management is the art of separating a project into discrete tasks, dividing the budget among the tasks and graphing completion to objectively chart progress.
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Undo Ubuntu Dual-Boot for Vista
This step-by-step guide will show a user how to revert from a computer dual-booting Ubuntu and Vista to the computer's original state: a Vista-only computer.
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Dual-Boot Ubuntu on Vista
This guide shows how to add Ubuntu, a Linux OS, to a computer with Windows Vista, an extra empty physical hard drive, good internet access, and a blank CD or two.
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Japanese Long Vowels and Pauses
When both writing and speaking Japanese, pauses and the length of pronunciation of vowel sounds can mark the difference between words with different meanings.
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Writing Japanese Katakana
As English has capital and lower-case letters, written Japanese has katakana to supplement hiragana, for loan words, foreign names, and other special cases.
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Writing Japanese Dakuten & Glides
Quotation-like dakuten (ten-ten), the circle handakuten (maru) and small y-set hiragana are added to appropriate hiragana to produce alternate pronunciations.
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Writing Japanese Hiragana
Before kanji or katakana, the first writing that both Japanese and non-native speakers of Japanese should learn is hiragana. Romaji is provided as a pronunciation guide.
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Japanese Language Proficiency Test
The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) offers 4 Levels of certification from the Japan Foundation on behalf of Japan Educational Exchanges and Services.
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Becoming a Foreign Service Officer
Although working as a representative of a U.S. embassy abroad involves passing a highly selective examination process, registration is available to the public online.
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Peace Park Tour in Nagasaki, Japan
The atomic bombing is only part of the city's history, but a good place to start exploring Nagasaki, the first Japanese port opened to the West.
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