EnglishCentral enhances English language learning by allowing users to watch videos, practice speaking, and receive pronunciation feedback. The document also outlines teaching strategies using an accompanying book that emphasizes video-based learning and vocabulary quizzes. It discusses famous historical speeches by various leaders to provide content for classroom activities and assessments.

1. Watch The Video Clips
Complete the Exercises
Present and be famous
by David Deubelbeiss

2. English Central makes improving one's English fun and effective by turning popular
web videos into powerful language learning experiences. EnglishCentral users not only
watch videos, they speak them and receive instant, personalized pronunciation feedback
via our cloud-based system.
Students WATCH authentic videos then SPEAK the videos. They are motivated
through authentic content and a point based system. Students LEARN by taking video
quizzes of the vocabulary of each video. We also have a cutting edge phonetic speech
recognition system which will give students valuable feedback about their speech.
Teachers can track and assess their students using EnglishCentral. Sign up students.
Make your own school, classrooms, groups. Assign video tasks and build curriculum for
your students. Track your student’s progress and print reports. Discuss and get tips on
our Teacher’s Forum.
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3. Using This Book
This book is meant to compliment the low level video content of EnglishCentral. The
book can be used in class and students can then “speak” the videos and do the quizzes on
EnglishCentral. It is built in recycling of the curriculum.
In class, 3 steps are recommended.
Ask a few pre-viewing questions to students. Then WATCH the video
together. Repeat as necessary. Students can follow with the script if
needed. The script can also be used as a listening cloze.
Model the speech with students, using a high level student. Students
should visit EnglishCentral and “speak” the speech and get instant
fluency feedback. Model this in class once, so the students understand
registration and how to use the player.
Students complete a simple “fill in the blanks” activity to consolidate
their learning of the vocabulary and language forms.
That’s it! Students can then in a language lab or at home, use EnglishCentral and
“SPEAK” the videos + do the video quizzes for each video. Teachers can track their
progress.
Also, have an end of book speech contest. Either students using these speeches or making
their own. It can be lots of fun and very motivating.
We hope you enjoy using EnglishCentral in this “blended” fashion.
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5. Table Of Contents
Lincoln The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. 7
Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-
known speeches in United States history. 1863
Winston Churchill A speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the 9
We Shall Fight On The Beaches House of Commons of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom on June 4, 1940.
John F. Kennedy June 26, 1963 speech. It is considered one of 11
Ich Bin Ein Berliner Kennedy's best, and a notable moment of the Cold
War.
Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the 13
I Have A Dream Lincoln Memorial, MLK Jr. called for racial
equality and an end to discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr. Stirring and passionate. Delivered 3 April 1968, 15
The Promised Land Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee
Bobby Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther 17
King, Jr., delivered 4 April 1968, Indianapolis, IN
On the death of MLK Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson Address to the nation announcing steps to limit the 19
Vietnam and Stepping Down war in Vietnam and reporting his decision not to seek
reelection March 31, 1968
Ronald Reagan The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th 21
1981 Inauguaral Speech President of the United States, held on January 20,
1981.
Ronald Reagan The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy address 23
Space Shuttle Tragedy delivered 28 January 1986 from the Oval Office.
Barak Obama Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama-as 25
Acceptance Speech prepared for delivery - Election Night, November
4th, 2008,Chicago, Illinois

6. Barak Obama Jan. 20th, 2009. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 27
Inauguration Day 44th president of the United States and the nation's
first African-American president
J.K. Rowling Commencement address to 29
The Benefit of Failure Harvard alumni, June 2008.
th
Delivered June 17 , 2008 at the Foreign Relations
Angelina Jolie headquarters. About international law and justice.
31
Peace and Justice She spoke passionately about her personal
experiences and Darfur.
Steve Jobs Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of 33
What is truly important? Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios,
delivered on June 12, 2005.
Randy Pausch May 2008 commencement addresss to Carnagie 35
We beat the reaper by … Mellon graduates. He later died that same year.
Ellen DeGeneris Commencement Speech at Tulane University from 37
Show People Your Brains the famous lebian comedian and entertain. May 16,
2009
Bill Gates Harvard commencement address June 7, 2007 where 39
Inequity in the World the founder of Microsoft talks about the lessons in
life he has learned.
Michelle Obama Oct. 2nd, 2009 speech in Copenhagen to the IOC as 41
Remarks to the IOC part of the U.S. bid to win the Olympic Games for
Chicago, her hometown.
Yuna Kim NEW YORK, 17 September 2010 – UNICEF 43
Sports and Peace Goodwill Ambassador and international figure
skating star brought a message of hope and
commitment to the United Nations
Bono Delivered on February 2, 2006 at the Washington 45
For Africa DC Hilton, by activist and rock star Bono, to the 51st
annual National Prayer Breakfast

7. Abe Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago, our ______________ brought forth on this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a great _____________ war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great ________________ of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is altogether _________________ and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground.
The ______________ men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long ____________
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the _______________ rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

8. Finish the sentences:
1. We can never __________________ what they did here.
2. The men who have _________________d here, we honor.
3. They gave their lives that the _______________________ may live.
4. Four score and seven years _____________________.
5. The world will __________________ note what we say here.
6. We must be ________________________d to the unfinished work.
7. The war is __________________ing our nation.
8. Our forefathers brought it forth on this ___________________________.
9. A new nation conceived in ___________________________.
10. All men are_______________________ equal.