ESL Self-Study Activities
Interactive lessons for your students to do on their own. It’s a great way to build vocabulary, improve pronunciation using authentic sound clips, and provides great listening comprehension activities.
Here are some MICASE-based self-study materials. In each lesson, there are interactive exercises that will give you feedback based on your own input.
Title: Clarifying and Confirming
Authors: Sheryl Leicher & Yung-Hui Chien
Date: September, 2007
Summary: This lesson will help you learn how to ask questions or ask for more information if you don’t understand something. It will also give you ideas for how to respond when you finally do understand. Answer the questions in each activity, and see if you got the answers right!
Start the Lesson: Clarifying and Confirming
Title: Spoken Academic English Formulas
Authors: Rita Simpson, Sheryl Leicher, & Yung-Hui Chien Date: January, 2007
Summary: This lesson helps you learn common phrases that people say in academic conversations, like ‘more or less’ and ‘as a matter of fact’. The meaning of these phrases cannot be easily found in a dictionary. Use this interactive activity to answer questions about these phrases, and find out instantly if you are correct! (Please note that the newest version of RealPlayer is required for audio files.)
Start the Lesson: Spoken Academic English Formulas
The history, purpose, and ideas behind the MICASE project.
The online search interface can be a valuable support tool for teaching English, but it can be tricky to use at first. Learn how to use MICASE Online with video demos, search tips and more.
Order the transcripts, sound files, and handbook. They are great supplementary materials for your classroom.
Lessons and activities using real MICASE dialogue, focusing on everything from new vocabulary to conversation skills.
Interactive lessons for your students to do on their own.
The sound files for many of our MICASE transcripts are available here for you to use in your classroom. They provide great examples of authentic speech!
These small research projects give you a look into the way people are talking in academic settings- everything from how people introduce speakers, to when they exaggerate.
Explanation of tags, colors, punctuation, and other mark-ups used in our transcripts.
Our how-to use MICASE information complied into one downloadable document.
How is MICASE being used in the field of teaching?
A list of publications, presentations and teaching materials using MICASE (1999-present).