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 Word Strings provides students with practice forming phrases and sentences, using vo­cabulary words from a Picture This card as a starting point. This game works best in groups.

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Picture This - Words Strings
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Picture This - Cards
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This puzzle invites users to compare bird facts and use logic to determine the secret numbers assigned to ten birds.

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The Lighter Side: "Bird Logic"
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This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to birds.

1. “Wild Goose Chase,” for beginner and intermediate students, will energize the classroom and allow students to practice teamwork and prepositions of location.

2. “A Bird Parable,” for upper intermediate and advanced students, encourages students to practice critical and creative thinking skills, explore inter-relationships between animals and people, and write a parable.

3. “Birds Are People, Too,” for intermediate to advanced students, lets students practice writing creative definitions and teaches them bird/people vocabulary.

Author: Kevin McCaughey Format: Text
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Classroom Activities
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This feature article presents the basics of birding, or bird watching, and discusses its appeal, especially to serious birders. A section on “citizen scientists” explains organizations that collect data on birds and describes projects they organize. Other sections discuss the legacy of John James Audubon and the bald eagle.

Author: Phyllis McIntosh Format: Text
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Birding—Fun and Science
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Integration of the four language skills can be enhanced by focusing on back translating—translating an English text into the students’ first language and then back into English. This article describes a three-step process for using back translation in reading classes as a way to help students identify gaps in their English competence.

Author: Yun Zhang and Cun Gao Format: Text
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Back Translating: An Integrated Approach to Focus Learners' Attention on Their L2 Knowledge Gaps
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Digital storytelling can motivate and engage students and create a community in the classroom. This article lays out a 12-week digital storytelling project, describing the process in detail, including assessment, and pinpointing issues and challenges as well as benefits the project affords English language students.

Author: Kathy Brenner Format: Text
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Digital Stories: A 21st-Century Communication Tool for the English Language Classroom
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This author presents variable and stimulating activities using songs to encourage students to connect with language. Seven dynamic activities include Song Pictures, Re-order It, Matching Meanings, Changing the Text, Song Strip Connections, Song Cards, and Pair Watching. All are outlined to facilitate their use, and many have added extensions and variations.

Author: Nico Lorenzutti Format: Text
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Beyond the Gap Fill: Dynamic Song Activities for Song in the EFL Classroom
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This article outlines reasons to use (or not use) the Internet in English language teaching, exploring the Internet as tutor and tool. Discussion of Internet content includes types of content and how to select, save, and use content. Various learning tasks, appropriate even for those without Internet access, are presented and highlighted in a table.

Author: George M. Chinnery Format: Text
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CALL Me … Maybe: A Framework for Integrating the Internet into ELT
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The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State. The manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks for Chapter 1 of Trace Effects.

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Trace Effects Teachers Manual - Chapter 1
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 In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card. The questions on the card act as a starting point for the students’ own questions. This is a great scaffolding activity for teaching how to form questions. This game works best in groups of 2-4 students.

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Picture This – Simple Switches
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