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1. To Correct or Not Correct? Ideas for Subtle Error Correction During Speaking Tasks

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar presents techniques designed to correct students’ grammar without interrupting the free flow of speech or the lesson.

2. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 1, 12 posters - Full Set)

   Format(s): Text

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in Forum vol. 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

3. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 6, 3 posters - Chicago)

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in English Teaching Forum, Volume 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

4. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   These classrooms activities, which are designed for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, focus on the issue’s fishing theme. Classroom activities include written and oral work, vocabulary, team work and individual work. Lessons include creating a vocabulary card game, oral story telling based on the “fish story” concept of telling exaggerated stories, and the creation of a persuasive piece. Variations are included to expand and vary the lessons.

5. American Memory Project

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Documents the American experience based on art and song, produced by the Library of Congress.

6. Children’s Web Portal

   Format(s): Video, Website

   The official kids’ portal for the student and teacher pages of various U.S. Government agencies.

7. Environmental Kid’s Club

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   The Environmental Protection Agency’s Kid’s Center provides information and materials about the environment.

8. Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary

   Format(s): Website

   The Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary is a useful resource for teachers and learners of English.

9. Teaching Listening Skills to Young Learners through 'Listen and Do' Songs

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article, which examines the use of songs to improve the listening skills of young learners, contains a lesson plan and follow-up activities and a list of online resources for songs.

10. 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.

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