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New Life Café Lesson Plan

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Study Guide for New Life Café

Contains a visual storyboard of the episode and many practice exercises for learners to do before, during and after watching each We Speak NYC episode.

Intermediate

My Name Is Eddie

A short story about one of the characters featured in the episode. Contains short, easy to read sentences for beginner-level learners.

Beginner

Meet the Characters for New Life Café

Compilation of short clips to introduce learners to the characters featured in this episode.

Beginner

Languages We Speak for New Life Café

Teacher handbook to be used in conjunction with We Speak NYC Study Guides to facilitate interactive practice in the classroom before and after showing an episode. Contains speaking, listening, reading and writing activities for teachers of mid- and upper-level students.

Intermediate

Images and Words for New Life Café

Images and a list of important words from each episode for building vocabulary and eliciting predictions before screening an episode.

Intermediate

Discussion Questions for New Life Café

Guidebook with discussion questions (Before-You-Watch questions and After-You-Watch questions) specific to the topic of each We Speak NYC episode.

Intermediate

Additional Activities for My Name Is Eddie

Supplemental activities for beginner-level learners to be used with the My Name Is.. short story. Activities are designed to teach the English language skills students need to read and talk about the My Name Is.. short story.

Beginner

Facilitator-Created Resources

Excerpt From A Novella

Two chapters from an original forthcoming New Life Cafe novella (with the back-story you never knew...)

Intermediate

Food & Nutrition

A New Life Café lesson set and project on food and nutrition, including: getting students talking about food and teaching to read and evaluate food advertisements and labels, and an introduction to local food and NYC's greenmarkets.

Intermediate

The Healthy Eating Project

A series of posters to help promote better eating and exercise habits. The poster can help learners talk about the video, practice vocabulary and discuss healthy eating and exercise habits.

Intermediate

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