A collection of classroom and study-at-home exercises for learning English as a second language. Five films are included: The Karate Kid, Finding Forrester, Rain Man, Apollo 13, & Erin Brockovich. The exercises can be copied for distribution in classrooms on a non-commercial basis. The author created these exercises for use in his own classroom. Students enjoyed this method of studying and learning English. Each film includes vocabulary exercises, viewing and discussion questions, tests, and answers. Also, provided are instructions for teachers and students.

"Thrown Together" is a love story set in the turmoil of the late sixties. Two Ohio State grad students--Matthew Boyer just back from the Viet Nam war and Amy St. Claire disenchanted with her traditional marriage--meet, share a friendship and fall in love amid the sixties millieu. In a back story, Matt tries to adopt a child he rescued during a Vietnam firefight. She is struggling to survive in a Saigon orphanage. Amy and Matthew's relationship takes them from quiet campus life, Woodstock, across the country to San Francisco and back to the Ohio campus, closed by protests during the Kent State...

A sequence of short stories set in Key West. Each tale is a slice of life--people working on their dreams. The mood of the piece as a whole is comic irony in the style of Florida Fiction. Jon Michael Miller, the author of "Roz: A Jamaican Lolita" among other fictional works, masterfully creates a cast of characters: a retiree beachcomber, a Japanese porn star, a Hip-Hop thug, a Cuban ex-patriot, a dowdy motel owner, a lovely teenage virgin, a bored naval wife, a caustic lesbian writing teacher, a punk street prostitute, a repentant pedophile, an all-American med student, a salty charter...

"Maharishi, TM, Mallory & Me--The Memoir of a Once TM Superstar" records the personal history of Jon Michael Miller's experience in the Transcendental Meditation Movement developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Miller rose to the upper ranks of the organization when it reached the height of its worldwide popularty in the seventies and eighties. The memoir presents his early years as a formative backdrop to his later receptiveness to Eastern philosophy. His evolution in the Movement was greatly influenced by issues arising from his love of a beautiful, enigmatic woman to whom he gives the name...

Rosalind Juliet Mitchell was determined to defy the pattern of the girls raised in the Jamaican hills around her. She didn't want to have a baby at thirteen. She didn't want to work the tourist streets. She didn't want to shack up with a man who beat and abused her. Not Rosalind. She wanted Mr. Right. And at the first tiny glimpse of opportunity, she jumped at her chance--Glenn Webber, an American photographer approaching middle age. With dogged determination she clung to her hopes and despite harrowing obstacles, struggled to make her dreams come true. This is Roz's story, a tale that will...

English in Films is a series of classroom exercises for teachers of English as a Second Language for study at home students. The movies have been carefully selected for their language and cultural value in learning and improving one's English--vocabulary, listening, conversation, writing, grammar and American culture. Our approach is to have fun while learning and to learn in a multidimensional way. Answers are provided, and the packets may be copied and edited for non-commercial use. Each film is broken into roughly 15-minute segments, which are divided into sections for vocabulary...

English in Films is a series of collections of study packets for English as a Second Language students and teachers. This is Volume 5, presenting study materials for five Disney movies--Aladdin, Bambi, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid & Pocahontas. They are designed for beginning and intermediate students, each with a version for both. They were produced by Jon Michael Miller, a veteran ESL teacher for use with his own students. They divide the films into 15-minute sections and have exercises for Vocabulary Development, Listening, Discussion, Writing and Testing. Answers are included. Teachers...

English in Films is a series of classroom exercises for teachers of English as a Second Language for study at home students. The movies have been carefully selected for their language and cultural value in learning and improving one's English--vocabulary, listening, conversation, writing, grammar and American culture. Our approach is to have fun while learning and to learn in a multidimensional way. Answers are provided, and the packets may be copied and edited for non-commercial use. Each film is broken into roughly 15-minute segments, which are divided into sections for vocabulary...