Poetry is essentially spoken language; it provides meaningful practice of structure, vocabulary, sounds, stress and intonation; it is enjoyable, it is memorable. When structurally graded, it becomes a valuable reinforcement to language learning.
Evans Graded Verse 1 contains limericks, tongue-twisters, rhymes and songs as well as both humorous and serious poems by such well-known poets as Hilaire Belloc, W.H. Davies, Robert Frost, and Philip Larkin.
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [?]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language.
Native Tongue by Carl HiaasenWriter Carl Hiaasen is an investigative journalist and columnist for the Miami Herald. As such his books have a tendency to be set in Florida, particularly in the Miami area. They are not exactly a series, in that they do not have a recurring main character. But some characters do reappear in other books. This particular book is set at North Key Largo.
Jennifer is a very talented teacher. I really like watching her video lessons and her soft spoken female voice makes me totally understand English rather than listening to other tongue twisted native English speakers.
