American English Resources Online




March 20, 2020

As you know, we have been closed since February 24, 2020 for the Coronavirus Emergency and will remain closed in accordance to the Italian Governmental Decrees. 
We miss you and hope to see you in person again soon!  
In the meantime, the American Spaces network offers a variety of American English Online programs.  We'll keep this post updated as we learn of new interesting resources.

You might enjoy these sites much that you won't want to go out after the lockdown... Just kidding!

Take Care! #iorestoacasa #imstayinghome

RESOURCES
Visit the US National Parks Online https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm
Tour the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History:
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

Get Stendahl Syndrome (instead of Coronavirus) with Google Arts & Culture proposing 1200 world class museums and archives 

Read from online Libraries  Here are some tremendous opportunities.
World Digital Library: free access to thousands of books, documents and photos from all countries and cultures.  https://www.wdl.org/en/

Project Gutenberg - Over 60,000 Free books that you can download. 
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Visit the Library of Congress,the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.  https://www.loc.gov/
Read some classic American Short Stories from the Library of America: http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/

Get Free Lesson Plans in English from Scholastic-PreK to Grade 9:  

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-tools/articles/resources/scholastic-learn-at-home--free-resources-for-school-closures.html
Take a self-paced English class at Voice of America's site and watch English captioned news : https://learningenglish.voanews.com/
Sing Out Loud
Children's Songs in English:  https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/sing-out-loud-childrens-songs

Traditional Folk Songs in English
https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/sing-out-loud-traditional-songs

Front Row Seat at the NY Metropolitan Opera - A free opera every day.  Each one stays online for 20 hours. With English Subtitles.  https://www.metopera.org/
Follow Pre-recorded U.S. government webinars
American English Teaching - http://bit.ly/AEWbnr
State Department Speakers from Interactive - http://bit.ly/IntrctWnbr
US Foreign Press Center - http://bit.ly/USFPCWbnr
US Videos and Articles -http://bit.ly/CntntCmmns
Take a MOOC
American English Massive Open Online Course (MOOCS) - http://bit.ly/AmEnMOOCs
English MOOCS for Educators - http://bit.ly/AEMOOCEd
YALI Network Courses - https://yali.state.gov/learning

Study at at Harvard and other prestigious American Universities with Free MOOCs.
https://www.edx.org/
Watch Speakers every topic imaginable on:
Ted Talks: www.ted.com