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1. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   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.

2. Activity 2 - Diagnostic Assessment

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): E-book

   Diagnostic assessments can help us recognize and identify what our students’ language learning needs are much earlier in a course. Learn all about diagnostic assessments in the Teacher’s Corner this week.

3. Teacher's Corner: A Story of Design Thinking in the Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Design thinking is a concept that has received growing attention in the United States in recent years. This approach to problem-solving is also valuable for turning our classrooms into spaces that prepare our students to solve meaningful challenges in the world in addition to learning English language skills. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we explore the concept of design thinking and consider how we can implement it in our teaching and classroom.

4. Business Vocabulary

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Vocabulary Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we highlight vocabulary that students can use in the workplace to sound more dynamic and professional.

5. Picture This – Same & Different

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Same & Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background knowledge about the items on the 'Picture This' cards to create descriptions that compare and contrast two items on a card.

6. Reported Speech Overview

   In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner is all about reported speech. This week, we present a fun activity that includes using interviews to get your students to practice reported speech.

7. Picture This – Pass It On

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   In Pass It On, students use the vocabulary words on a Picture This card to create a story. Download cards and instructions.

8. CRITICAL CREATIVITY IN ACTION

   Format(s): Text

   In this Critical Creativity kit, you will find a printable 50-card deck containing 49 activities and one reference card, and a PDF comprehensive instruction manual. The Critical Creativity Activity Cards are a flexible collection of literacy strategies designed to help EFL teachers add opportunities for creative thinking to their classrooms.

9. Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks

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   Word Bricks help students identify word patterns in sentences. This overview will teach you sentence structure and patterns and help you to master all of the Word Bricks games!

10. Prepositions of Time: In, At, and On

    In: Teacher's Corner: Prepositions Format(s): Text

    This week’s Teacher’s Corner introduces two activities during which students practice the prepositions in, at, and on.

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