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This fill-in the blank worksheet list activities that might be part of an English Club meeting.

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The Lighter Side: What's Missing?
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Using news in the classroom keeps students aware of events happening in local, national, and international communities, and it promotes critical thinking. This activity helps students become more aware of issues and events in the news to motivate them to have further discussions with classmates, family, or members of the community. 

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Try This: Current Events
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Yulia Bulatkulova discovered her passion for English language teaching at a young age as a result of the example set by an esteemed childhood English teacher, Elvira Kuyanova. “I liked the way she spoke, always in English, and I thought to myself, I want to be like her,” Ms. Bulatkulova recalled. She explained that it was her teacher’s command over a language different from the one they shared that captivated her interest.

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My Classroom: Kazakhstan
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This article explores a technique that can be used for almost any kind of classroom listening practice and with all kinds of classes. It seems to work well both in exam preparation and in regular textbook listening exercises. 

Author: Alexey Shikhantsov Format: Text
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Four Ear Hear More Than Two
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

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Reader's Guide
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The purpose of this article is to persuade English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and teacher trainers that homework is indeed beneficial by presenting multiple examples of high-quality homework assignments, as Dettmers et al. (2010) found in mathematics 

Author: Laura Loder Büchel Format: Text
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English Homework: What Makes Sense?
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This article defines and provides a rationale for the creation of community-based English clubs. We offer strategies that individuals can use to create and sustain English clubs, and we suggest meeting activities that will engage members in conversations and potential community action on a range of topics such as democracy, sex equality, and environmental protection. 

Author: Kathleen F. Malu and Bryce Smedley Format: Text
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Community-Based English Clubs
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This article serves to give readers a framework for planning, preparing, and delivering a successful workshop, including strategies to keep on pace and anticipate and overcome obstacles.

Author: Jimalee Sowell Format: Text
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How to Conduct an ELT Workshop
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In this interview, four friends talk about what they do in their free time and on the weekends, as well as their part-time jobs. 
 
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This webinar, "Building Autonomy through Cooperative Classroom Management," demonstrates techniques that assist in creating effective cooperative and communicative classrooms, especially in classes of 20 students or more. Using the techniques illustrated in this webinar, teachers will learn how to maintain control, while increasing student autonomy and providing each student with a role in the classroom management and with the opportunity to improve creative and critical thinking skills in English. 

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Building Autonomy through Cooperative Classroom Management
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Minimizing the Chaos through Cooperative Classroom Management
Lessons from the Other Side of the Teacher’s Desk: Discovering Insights to Help Language Learners
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