Archive for 'New in CL-150 Cohorts'
New: ILR 3+ Cohort Lessons Posted by meaghan on Aug 16, 2023 in For Learners, New in CL-150 Cohorts
ILR 3 is no longer the ceiling—for you, or for CL-150 Cohort lessons! Improve your reading and listening skills with ILR 3+ Cohort lessons in Chinese, Farsi, French, Russian, and Spanish. Each language has 36 hour-long lessons. 3 listening lessons and 3 reading lessons based on authentic sources in each of the following domains: Geopolitics…
NEW: French ILR 2+ and 3 CL-150 Cohorts Posted by meaghan on Mar 14, 2023 in For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts
Maintaining proficiency in French? Don’t waste another minute looking for authentic materials at your level. Let alone figuring out how to best use them to build reading and listening skills you need most. We’ve done all the legwork for you—CL-150 Cohort lessons are 60ish-minute lessons designed for sustaining your reading and listening skills. And now…
Introducing CL-150 Cohort Weekly Lessons in French ILR 2 Posted by meaghan on Dec 7, 2021 in For Learners, New in CL-150 Cohorts
French learners, say bonjour to the new ILR 2 French CL-150 Cohort weekly lesson stream! Starting December 6th, a new ILR 2 French lesson will be published every week, based on authentic sources from the French-speaking world. What’s new other than the language? The French Cohort lessons have all the things you love most about…
Introducing Chinese ILR 3+ Cohort Lessons Posted by meaghan on Oct 25, 2021 in For Learners, New in CL-150 Cohorts
When you enroll in a CL-150 Cohort, you receive a new sustainment lesson every week at your ILR level. But what makes those lessons “at level”? Let’s take a look at the new Mandarin Chinese ILR 3+ lesson stream to see the choices made to ensure lessons are sufficiently challenging for your specific proficiency level…
Providing context with image-based activities Posted by meaghan on Oct 2, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, Lesson Authoring Tips, New in CL-150 Cohorts, New in Lesson Authoring
Earlier in 2020, we introduced two image-based learning activities to the CL-150 Platform. Lesson authors can include flat or 360-degree images and label them with relevant vocabulary items or annotations. Our team is including the Image Explorer activities to CL-150 Cohort lessons to provide geographical, cultural, and historical context—here are a few examples you can…
CL-150 Cohort lessons in 15, 30, or 45 minutes Posted by meaghan on Aug 19, 2020 in For Instructors, For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts
When you open a CL-150 Cohort lesson and there are 15+ activities. 👀🤯 CL-150 Cohort lessons are designed to take two or more hours to complete, hence the long activity list! To fight language attrition, many USG language programs require at least two hours of weekly learning time, so a two-hour lesson is a one-stop-shop…
CL-150 Cohort Lesson of the Month – May 2020 Posted by meaghan on May 28, 2020 in Cohort Lesson of the Month, For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts
This month’s featured Cohort lesson is one of the first to include the new “Image Explorer” 360-degree image activity! The featured lesson comes from the Spanish ILR 2 lesson stream: ILR 2, 05/11/20: Buying a Car Online Becomes a Reality in Colombia (Technology/El Tiempo). As you can probably guess from the lesson title, the source…