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📚Are you looking to improve your English skills through reading? Wondering what Banned Book Week and looking to celebrate it? Then this episode of the Learn English Podcast is perfect for you! Whether you’re an intermediate learner or an advanced speaker, this episode will provide you with a diverse reading list to boost your language skills.
📖This week, we’re celebrating Banned Book Week by talking about into some of the most controversial literature that can help take your English learning to the next level. We all know how important input is for language learning. It’s essential to immerse yourself in English through stories to help build your vocabulary and improve your understanding of the language. Reading is a fantastic way to get input and enhance your fluency naturally.
📕🚫In honor of Banned Book Week, we’ll discuss why some of the most iconic books were banned and how reading them can improve your language skills. From children’s classics like Charlotte’s Web to modern series like Harry Potter, we’ll cover books at various difficulty levels to suit your current English proficiency. We’ll talk about why these books were controversial and how their stories can be powerful tools for learning new vocabulary and grammar structures. Plus, you’ll discover how some of these banned books can help you expand your knowledge of English culture and history.
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📚 Vocabulary List:
1) Banned Book Week – A week-long event in the United States that celebrates books that have been banned or prevented from being in libraries.
2) Controversial – Causing disagreement or debate.
3) Rebellious – showing a desire to resist authority or control
4) Bittersweet – a mixture of sadness and happiness.
5) Utopia – an imagined place or state where everything is perfect.
6) Satire – a literary work that uses humor or irony to criticize something.
7) Explicit – often refers to content that is not suitable for younger audiences.
8) Colloquial – (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal
9) Disillusioned – disappointed because something is not as good as one believed it to be.
10) Censorship -the practice of controlling what people can read or see
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Hello, I am Dr. C.
Melissa Cartagena, aka Dr. C, is a TESOL certified English teacher from the United States who has been teaching English online to non-native speakers since 2021. She had her own language journey that showed her the value of comprehensible input while learning a language. Dr. C took Spanish in high school, but could barely even introduce herself even though she received “A’s” in her Spanish classes. After a decade of trying and failing to learn Spanish using expensive software and apps, she decided to find the most effective way to learn a language.
Her search led her to theories of Steve Kaufmann and Stephen Krashen, both of whom argue that comprehensible input, such as listening and reading, as the key to fluency. Comprehensible input and hearing a language in context is how we all learn our first language as children. Using their method, she was able to learn more Spanish in two months than she had in the previous decade. Invigorated by her success, she became certified to teach English and started giving classes online to help others who were on their own language journey.
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📚Are you looking to improve your English skills through reading? Wondering what Banned Book Week and looking to celebrate it? Then this episode of the Learn English Podcast is perfect for you! Whether you’re an intermediate learner or an advanced speaker, this episode will provide you with a diverse reading list to boost your language skills.
📖This week, we’re celebrating Banned Book Week by talking about into some of the most controversial literature that can help take your English learning to the next level. We all know how important input is for language learning. It’s essential to immerse yourself in English through stories to help build your vocabulary and improve your understanding of the language. Reading is a fantastic way to get input and enhance your fluency naturally.
📕🚫In honor of Banned Book Week, we’ll discuss why some of the most iconic books were banned and how reading them can improve your language skills. From children’s classics like Charlotte’s Web to modern series like Harry Potter, we’ll cover books at various difficulty levels to suit your current English proficiency. We’ll talk about why these books were controversial and how their stories can be powerful tools for learning new vocabulary and grammar structures. Plus, you’ll discover how some of these banned books can help you expand your knowledge of English culture and history.
🔔 Follow us on social media @LearnEnglishPod and visit our website:
Podcast website: https://learnenglishpod.com/
Follow us on social Media: https://linktr.ee/learnenglishpod
Streaming guide: https://www.justwatch.com/ and https://watchany.stream/
📚 Vocabulary List:
1) Banned Book Week – A week-long event in the United States that celebrates books that have been banned or prevented from being in libraries.
2) Controversial – Causing disagreement or debate.
3) Rebellious – showing a desire to resist authority or control
4) Bittersweet – a mixture of sadness and happiness.
5) Utopia – an imagined place or state where everything is perfect.
6) Satire – a literary work that uses humor or irony to criticize something.
7) Explicit – often refers to content that is not suitable for younger audiences.
8) Colloquial – (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal
9) Disillusioned – disappointed because something is not as good as one believed it to be.
10) Censorship -the practice of controlling what people can read or see