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1. Profits or Preservation?

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   Using role-plays in your English language classroom is a great way to get students talking. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students role-play a scenario about deforestation.

2. Activity 3 - Self-Assessment

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will look at the role that students play in assessment through assessment creation and self-reflection.

3. Encouraging Learners to Create Language-Learning Materials

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Student-produced materials are a powerful tool for promoting learner autonomy.

4. Teaching Techniques: Nouns on the Job Market - An Approach for Recognizing Noun Position

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Using the employment analogy provides a fun and memorable way to help students relate to this sentence-level grammatical concept.

5. What To See in Town

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner provides students with the opportunity to practice using phrasal verbs in an activity about New York City.

6. Fostering Student Motivation: Goal-Setting and Student Interest Questionnaires

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week’s teaching tip illustrates how to use a beginning-of-course questionnaire activity to encourage students to think about motivation-related questions.

7. Information Gaps: Visual Prompts and Oral Clues

   In: Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity is “20 Questions with Picture Cards.” Students use visual prompts to exchange information and achieve their goal.

8. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship

   Format(s): Text

   Within the field of English Language Teaching, the area of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is increasingly popular. Students around the world are seeking the English language skills they need to succeed in their areas of study and work.

9. Practicing Irregular Forms with the "Which One Would the World be Better Without? Why?" Board Game

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity uses an Activate board game. The game creates opportunities for students to use the irregular comparative and superlative forms for ‘good’ and ‘bad.’

10. The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

    Format(s): Text

    This collection of short stories by O. Henry gives the reader a wonderful selection of characters from the United States of 100 years ago.

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