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CHAPTER
I - Society and History
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Ethnic Americans and Hyphenated Ones
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Self-Service and Self Reliance
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School Rings and Senior Privileges
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Volunteers and Charitable Collections
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Indians:the Native Americans
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Cowboys and the Wild Frontiers
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Banjos,Harmonicas and Guitars
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Old GloryE- The American Flag
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Blue Monday and "Thank God it's Friday"
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Sending Cards for All Occasions
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Euphemisms: Nice Ways to Say Unpleasant Things
CHAPTER
II - Sightseeing and Daily Life
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Tipping
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Health Warnings
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Happy Hours
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The Rose is a Special Flower
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Stickball on the City Streets
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Signing a Cast for a Broken Arm
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Day Nurseries and Old Age Homes
17. Heads and Tails:Odds and Evens
18. The American Funeral: Wakes and Embalming
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Part-time Jobs for Teenagers and Young Adults
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Bar-Hopping and Teetotalers
21. Honeymoons for the Newlyweds
22. Flea Markets, Garage Sales and Used Book Stores
CHAPTER III - Culture and Food
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Ladies First
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Feminists and Womens Liberation
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Hitchhiking on the Open Road
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Free Concerts in Museums, Parks and Public Places
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Grand Tour of An American Home
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Shopping Malls and Mail Orders
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Bridal Showers, Stag Parties and Other Rituals of Marriage
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Doggie Bags and Brown Bag Restaurants
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Abortions and the Death Penalty
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Beauty Pageants
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The Apple as a Special Fruit
17. Champagne Toasts
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Sandwiches:BLTs and Submarines
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Summer Barbecues and Vegetarian Diets
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Home Remedies
23. Birthday and Pot Luck Parties
At the link below you will find a sentence from the readings above whihc have been fragmented and mixed up. Test your ability at word order to restructure the sentences into a legible entity. After you have finished an exercise the computer will grade your effort!
At the link below you will find crossword puzzles divided into three categories and a variety of topics. These crossword puzzles are intended to help the ESL student to review vocabulary associated with various topics !
At the link below you will find a collection of four fables based upon scriptural meditations. Each fable is supplemented by comprehension quizzes,activities and language games.
At the link below you will find a wealth of exercises for ESL Students which are both creative and imaginative. The exercises range from easy to difficult and are a challenge for anyone who is interested in improving his/her language skills!
The links below will bring you on-line libraries for extended and extensive readings. At these sites you will find the works of great literature and information about their authors.I have also included my own short stories which do not belong in the category of literature but which I hope you may enjoy nevertheless.
The link below will bring you to a comprehensive list of some of the world's greatest speeches. They are spoken by the great men and women who delivered them. Some are serious, others humorous. Some are very important, others less so. They cover a wide range of history from politics to sports, music and entertainment.Some are actual speeches while others are fragments of moments in history which have changed our lives. You will need Real Play to listen to these speeches but you can download Real Play from the main page.
The link below will bring you to a comprehensive list of some of the world's greatest quotations of famous writers. There are over 22,000 quotations from over 2,600 authors. The quotes come from writers, religious leaders, philosophers and men and women for all walks of life. They are arranged by both author and sibject.
Here is another site of great quotations.Search 50,000 quotations (and bio info) for more than 3,000 famous people. This is a great research tool for students, teachers and quote lovers. Creative quotations also inspire Creative Thinking! - the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. Please browse creatively!
The link below will bring you on-line dictionaries and valuable resources to enhance you study of English. This link will lead you to further links which will be of greater value to improving your reading and comprehension skills.
The link below will bring you more on-line dictionaries.Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, OneLook will quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, OneLook help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
The link below will bring you to the Reader's Digest webpage. This is an excellent site for popular reading on a vast catalog of topics. One of the special features of this website is the "Word Power" link which will provide hours of fun with quizzes which will challenge your skills and strengthen your vocabulary. You will have to register once you get to this site, but it is free and easy to do!
The link below will bring you complete on-line film sciripts of hundreds of you favorite movies. Some are quite recent while others are classics. Perfect for studying the text of a film after viewing while the visual images are still clear in one's mind.
The link below will bring you to an exciting ESL website for film fans who want to study English by analyzing movie trailers.It's interactive and lots of fun.
The link below will bring you into a world of games and activites for the ESL Student. Scroll through this site to find information on anagrams,tongue twisters, palindromes and more oddities of the English language.
NOTE TO THE STUDENTS OF MR. BALSAMO'S CLASSES: Please send the scores of your quizzes to us by way of the email below:
Any questions concerning these quizzes should be addressed to me directly:
Mr. Balsamo's E mail:
balsamo@kenmei.ac.jp
