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Listen and Read Along (Flash/MP3)

Health Report How Loneliness Can Infect Social Networks (3 minutes) Importance of Hand Washing (3 minutes) Agriculture Report Cherries (1.5 minutes) Environment Report Light Pollution (3.4 minutes) People Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) Bess Lomax Hawes (1921-2009) Senator Edward Kennedy (Ted Kennedy) (1932-2009) Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) - 5 Parts (10.4 minutes) Frank Lloyd Wright - Part 1 Frank Lloyd Wright - Part 2 Frank Lloyd Wright - Part 3 Frank Lloyd Wright - Part 4 Frank Lloyd Wright - Part 5 Babe Ruth (1895-1948) American Baseball Legend (10.8 minutes) Benjamin Franklin (2.5 minutes) American Mosaic Winter Sports in America Jazz (50 seconds) The Golden Gate Bridge (2.6 minutes) Sudoku (2.4 minutes) The Word "Ain't" (2.1 minutes) American and British English (3.5 minutes) Science in the News What You Can Do About Headaches (15 minutes) A Good Night's Sleep May Improve Memory (1.8 minutes) Why You Shouldn't Smoke (1.5 minutes) How to Stop Smoking (4.2 minutes) Explorations The History of English (15 minutes) From Wikipedia About Reggae This one is not in "Special English."

Science and Technology This is 4 minutes long and use the Teleprompter Player. 'Caine’s Arcade' Video Brings Fame to Creative Boy Words & Their Stories These are 5 minutes long and use the Teleprompter Player. About the Words 'Baloney' and 'Blarney' About the Word 'Fireworks' Fall Guy, Take a Fall and Receive a Bum Rap American Stories The Tell-Tale Heart - Written by Edgar Allan Poe (Teleprompter) A Pair of Silk Stockings - Written by Kate Chopin (On YouTube.com) This is a playlist with 2 videos. (13:15) The Diamond Lens - Written by Fitz-James O'Brien (On YouTube.com) This is a playlist with 6 videos. (24 minutes) The Law of Life - Written by Jack London. (On YouTube.com) The Law of Life (1/2) (10 minutes) The Law of Life (2/2) (4 minutes) To Build a Fire - Written by Jack London. The God of His Fathers - Written by Jack London. The Return of a Private - Written by Hamlin Garland. The Line of Least Resistance - Written by Edith Wharton. John Henry - Traditional, Adapted by George Grow. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Adapted by Dana Demange. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Written by Washington Irving. A Horseman in the Sky - Written by Ambrose Bierce. The White Heron - Written by Sarah Orne Jewett. More American Stories There are other stories with MP3 files and text here. Most of these are about 14 minutes. Many of these were adapted to VOA Special English by Dona de Sanctis. President Obama Barack Obama's Weekly Addresses For advanced students, we have a set of these. About "Listen and Read Along" These are all things that I adapted from material produced by the Voice of America (VOA). Some of these are in Flash, some are MP3 files played by a Flash player and some are hosted on YouTube.com.