Monday, March 30, 2026
Fish Vocabulary
(TESOL Materials--Animals)
* Zale’s Big Ocean Adventure (for saltwater fish)--Created from this chat here (Made using Google Gemini Storybook)
* The Fish in the Pond (for freshwater fish)--created from this chat here
* Slideshow: slides, pub (I used this slideshow to present the vocabulary, and also to do a board race)
[Note: This vocabulary is based on the vocabulary from pages 120 and 121 of Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas. But I believe this material could also be used independently for any lesson on animal vocabulary, so I'm posting it here.]
A Complaint by Rose Fyleman: Poem
(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)
Transcript: docs, pubVideo: HERE
A Complaint by Rose Fyleman: poem
Video: https://youtu.be/_xAzNyVbXcI
You’ve stolen all our mushrooms!
When friends come in to tea
In Fairyland it is the rule
To offer them a satin stool;
The grass is often very wet
And furniture is hard to get,
As you must all agree.
You've stolen all our mushrooms
And left not one behind.
If people came by night and day
And took your prettiest chairs away
And made them all into a stew
Without so much as thanking you,
Now would you call it kind ?
You've stolen all our mushrooms,
And, if you don't take care,
We'll go about the fields at night
And paint the toadstools brown and white,
And you'll be punished for your greed
By being very ill indeed
So you had best beware.
Related Playlists:
Poems ESL Listening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7ReDXIOlVgC1Ci0mGdDWqd
ESL Listening Exercises Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7xq-zLjulU2DRTjg2TNmAx
Rose Fyleman playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4xUwv4w9lyRwzhwcOr3STr&si=EH6dD3aCICn53mpX
https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice
Sunday, March 29, 2026
This Week in Booktube: March 29, 2026
(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below. Support Booktube. And let me know what you've watched this past week.)
Joseph Francis Burton A Better Life, by Lionel Shriver - book discussion
jim's books reading & stuff The NON-Fiction Book Tag
William's Library Netflix's '1983' Review
jim's books reading & stuff 1 min review: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Derek Green The Crusades.... An epic piece of history.
Bucky749 Book’em : BOOK’em : Sherlock homes and TMNT PICK UP
Barry Lyndon: Movie Review
This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost. For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/barry-lyndon.html
Related Playlists:
Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA
Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP
Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI
Saturday, March 28, 2026
The Hobbit 3: The Battle of the Five Armies: Movie Review
This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost. For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-hobbit-3-battle-of-five-armies.html
Related Playlists:
Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA
Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP
Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI
6 Stars Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5J3Xt6eNnuYXV6HcAIbGEy
J. R. R. Tolkien Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5i-NI47xPtNmgnqSSCLPEB&si=c89xrIhefatmHHbt
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7_AIufffOhnh-_TK8uCQed&si=URGoxv7w60KTS2zk
Friday, March 27, 2026
The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug: Movie Review
This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost. For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-hobbit-2-desolation-of-smaug.html
Related Playlists:
Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x6N06WoIoV2fLb6xRYrepTk&si=EDHi2_Y41ACLnCmA
Scripted Movie Reviews playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x49ts8TV1DbXQo8zN_e65us&si=_gzqGAmaz337NVCP
Scripted Reviews Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5BKcEIufNKlS58JHU_glyL&si=Pje0KQqIqOgWGGUI
6 Stars Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5J3Xt6eNnuYXV6HcAIbGEy
J. R. R. Tolkien Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x5i-NI47xPtNmgnqSSCLPEB&si=c89xrIhefatmHHbt
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7_AIufffOhnh-_TK8uCQed&si=URGoxv7w60KTS2zk
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Started: Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model [6th edition]
This is a reread of sorts. I read the 3rd edition of this book last summer. I am rereading it now both because I want to solidify the concepts in my mind as much as possible, and because I have come to realize that I hadn't read the most current edition.
As a side note: I'm not sure how it was that I didn't get the most current edition when I ordered this book off of Amazon last summer. When I was searching for this book on Amazon last summer, the 3rd edition was the first one that popped up on my search. It didn't even occur to me that there were more current editions. Although the 6th edition of this book changes part of the title to "Multilingual Learners" instead of "English Learners". So maybe that's why the newest edition didn't spring up when I was searching last summer. (I was searching for the title based on what SIOP books came up on a library search.)
The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: Poem
(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)
Transcript: docs, pubVideo: HERE
The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: poem
Video: https://youtu.be/4rdx5CjaOLg
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Related Playlists:
Poems ESL Listening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7ReDXIOlVgC1Ci0mGdDWqd
ESL Listening Exercises Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7xq-zLjulU2DRTjg2TNmAx
https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice
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