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When teaching English to older students, they sometimes – and understandably – get tired of reading books designed for much younger children.
One way I deal with this challenge is by find more age-appropriate books in English that also have editions in their home languages, so they can read the books side-by-side (see USING “THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK” WITH ELL NEWCOMERS!).
Fortunately, there are now online tools with similar features, though their content can be a little limited.
Please let me know if you know of other related resources.
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Here’s what I have so far:
Penguin Parallel Text Series is a book series with…parallel text (each page has the content written in two languages).
TeachVid uses the ideal of “parallel text” with video – playing a video in one language while showing the transcript in another. There are many follow-up activities that can be printed (or copied and pasted into Google Classroom). You can read more about it here.
2Lingual is a bilingual search engine. You type in your search term and then choose two languages. Search results will show-up side-by-side in both languages.
Thanks Larry / Grazie Larry; from an Italian teacher in Milan.
Glad you found it helpful!