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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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International Subscriptions: English Teaching Forum is distributed through U.S. Embassies. If you would like to subscribe to the print version of English Teaching Forum, please contact the Public Affairs or Cultural Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in your country.

U.S. Subscriptions: English Teaching Forum is exempted from the Congressional restriction on distribution of Department of State-produced materials in the United States. U.S. residents who want to order the printed edition can order from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents.

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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Picture This – Cards
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In Pass It On, students use the vocabulary words on a Picture This card to create a story. This game provides students with the opportunity to be creative with language and to use their imagination to tell a silly story. This game works best in small groups.

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Picture This – Pass it On Instructions
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Picture This – Cards
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Paraphrase It! provides students with practice saying the same thing in a variety of different ways by paraphrasing. Paraphrasing allows students to be creative with language to express a particular meaning, while practicing different grammatical structures, word forms, and vocabulary. This game works best in groups of 3-4 students

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Picture This – Paraphrase It! Instructions
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Picture This – Cards
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Mix It, Fix It! allows students to practice creating well-formed questions. First, one player scrambles a question from the Picture This card, and the remaining players work together to unscramble it. This game works best in small groups.

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Picture This – Mix It, Fix It! Instructions
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Picture This – Cards
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 In Question Quiz, students practice creating questions that contain very specific information about one item from a Picture This card, so that there is only one correct answer to the question. This game works best in groups of 2-4 students.

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Picture This – Question Quiz Instructions
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Picture This Cards
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This webinar "50 Years of English Teaching Forum: Teachers Collaborating Worldwide" discusses the history, features, and submission guidelines for the well-known journal, English Teaching Forum. This is a great resource both for teachers interested in using FORUM in the classroom as well as teachers interested in publishing an article.

Authors: Max Koller, Heather Benucci, Jennifer Hodgson, Tom Glass Format: Text, Video
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The folk song We Dig Worms is one of the ways that singer Zach Ladin has found to remind listeners young and old of the importance of all creatures in nature. Ladin, who has an academic background in urban ecology, uses his music to educate children about nature, as well as promote an appreciation for all the things that Earth and nature gives us – even worms and bugs!

In this song, Ladin invites listeners to appreciate all of the things on the Earth that support nature’s ecosystem, such as worms, insects, birds, plants, the sun, and clean air and water. We Dig Worms is part of an environmental education project called Nature Jams that Ladin started in order to inspire people through upbeat music promoting good health, natural living, and friendship.

Author: Zach Ladin Format: MP3
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We Dig Worms
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