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1. Create to Communicate: Collage

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section contains five lesson plans focusing on imperatives, present continuous, wh-questions, contrastive nouns, and future aspect using will focusing on high beginner to advanced proficiency levels.

2. Creative Classroom Activities

   Format(s): Text

   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.

3. Strategies for Engaging Young Learners

   Format(s): Text

   The difficulty in teaching young learners (YLs) in the EFL classroom is maintaining engagement throughout the lesson. Therefore, teachers of YLs need to incorporate activities that are meaningful, engaging, and also entertaining. This webinar will share practical tips and ideas for engaging young learners in the EFL classroom, including using fun songs with humor, using actions to accompany poetry and song lyrics, and promoting creativity. We will also focus on techniques for making input comprehensible, such as using gestures, visuals, and realia as learning tools. When using a variety of techniques and activities, children forget they are in a step-by-step language lesson, and the learning comes naturally.

4. Picture This – Name It!

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

   In Name It!, players take turns using English to describe the items or ideas pictured on the Picture This cards. I

5. Picture This – Simple Switches

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

   In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card.

6. English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2

   Format(s): Text

   Find suggestions for using cell phones, songs and movement, student-created cartoons, photo diaries—and much more.

7. Adapting Materials to Meet Your Classroom Needs

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

   This webinar teaches useful techniques to successfully adapt materials for your classroom.

8. An Interactive Project for Online Language Practice: Creating a Narrative Flipbook

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Navinder K.D. Singh provides a step-by-step guide to helping students work collaboratively to create a narrative and turn it into a digital flipbook.

9. Creating a Positive Classroom Community

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

   This session, "Creating a Positive Classroom Community," explains how to successfully foster relationships among learners to create a sense of purpose and belonging in the classroom, resulting in greater student participation and rapport.

10. Environmental Student Center

    Format(s): Website

    The Environmental Protection Agency provides information, games, videos, quizzes, and short films for students.

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