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ESLP 102 Speaking and Listening for Academic Purposes
Internet Supplements
Link to "Talk It Over" materials online - look for "Talk It Over" picture and click on "Audio Supplement". You will be asked to log on with your KU online ID. Then scroll down to the appropriate chapter and choose the segment you need.

Link to pronunciation practice materials online - look for the "ESLP102" picture. You will be asked to log on with your KU online ID. Then scroll down to the appropriate lesson and choose the segment you need.

Dave Kingsley Listening Tests - (AEC Students only)

Poetry Homework Links:
  • "Merry Go Round"

  • "Minstrel Man"

    • Some Environmental References:
    Mt. Dioxin references - DO NOT PRINT OUT THE WEBPAGES!
    Sites Related to Native Americans
    Sites Related to "Smoke Signals"
    A Class Divided - Watch the entire Frontline program, or watch additional reports and interviews.

    Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech"
    Music and Social Change in America
    Period One - 1900 to World War I

    Click on "Jazz Foundations 'Track'" below. Look at all of the sites by clicking on them in the frame on the left, and answer the questions that appear in the top frame above the actual websites.

    Jazz Foundations "Track" - Click on "View in Frames" to see the list of websites you will visit.

    Bert Williams - You will need to listen to this one.

    Musicians and Sound Files

    Useful Websites:
    • Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention - Read the transcript

    • Barack Obama's Speech at the Democratic National Convention - Click on "Hear Obama's Speech in Full" to hear the speech.

    • Fun Poem - "The English Lesson"new - a brief video of Brian Rhodes, of Okanagan University, B.C., Canada, receiting the popular humerous poem that begins..."I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough?"

    • Favorite Poem Project - founded by Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, this project has collected hundreds of "favorite" poems. At this part of their site, you will find 44 short video clips of all sorts of people reading their favorite poems and explaining why they have special meaning for the readers.

    • Harper Audio - Hear well-known authors read from their works. The works of famous writers from the past are read by actors. There is a wide selection to choose from including: Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allen Poe, Will Rogers, and William Shakespeare.

    • Phonetics: The Sounds of American English from the University of Iowa. This is a fantastic site with graphics, sound, and video. See an animation of mouth anatomy or a video of a native speaker pronouncing each sound. Click on "English sounds library" and then choose the sounds you want to work on.

    • Merriam-Webster Online - hear a word pronounced when you click on the audio icon, includes a dictionary and thesaurus for definitions or synonyms, some difficult vocabulary in definitions, word etymologies (origins) provided.

    • AEC LEO Lab - Listening and Pronunciation page - An annotated list of excellent sites for authentic listening practice.

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