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1. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual

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   Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English.

2. The Children’s Response

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   The Children’s Response is based on Asher’s Total Physical Response (TPR) method.

3. Creative Classroom Activities

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   Creative Classroom Activities is the second of a two-volume anthology of articles published between 1989 and 1993 in English Teaching Forum. Download the e-book or PDF.

4. Developing Writing

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   Developing Writing is a reading and writing skills text designed for beginning to intermediate learners of English.

5. English Grammar and Technical Writing

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   English Grammar and Technical Writing is a textbook for international students who are studying science, medicine, or technology.

6. Reference Guide to English:: A Handbook of English as a Second Language

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   The Reference Guide to English was designed to help learners of English understand challenging points of grammar.

7. Word Bricks-Brick Bingo

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   Brick Bingo helps students make connections between the spoken and written forms of words in a fun, low-stress game. Download the game and instructions!

8. Word Bricks-Longest Sentence

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   Students create the longest sentence possible using a set of 15–20 Word Bricks in 3 minutes. Keeping the time limit short makes for a fast-paced, fun atmosphere as teams compete. Download the cards and instructions!

9. Word Bricks- Parts of Speech

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   In Part of Speech, teacher gives the players a specific pattern to use, and their sentences must follow this pattern. Students use Word Bricks to build sentences individually, in pairs, or in small groups. This activity is great for lower proficiency level students, as it provides scaffolding to help students generate a correct sentence.

10. Word Bricks-Sentence Boundaries

    In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

    Use Word Bricks to help your students practice sentence patterns. In the game Sentence Boundaries, teams compete to complete five sentence patterns using the Word Bricks. Download Word Bricks and the instructions!

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