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1. The Lighter Side: "Listen Up!"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet presents a listening exercise based on rhymes.

2. Helping Metaphors Take Root in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article explores why metaphors challenge learners and presents ways to incorporate metaphors into EFL instruction to help learners understand figurative speech.

3. The Lighter Side: Train of Thought

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet focuses on phrasal verbs in a context of train rides.

4. The Lighter Side: "Traffic Jam"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet requires unscrambling a factual statement about cars and a follow-up question that can be used for classroom discussion.

5. Minimizing the Chaos through Cooperative Classroom Management

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses techniques for organizing large classes to allow smooth transitions from whole-class discussions to individual and group work.

6. The Lighter Side: "Dog Tricks"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, readers use clues to fill in commands that someone might give to a dog.

7. Using Writing as a Scaffold to Academic Discussions in the Foreign Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Would you like to help your students engage in discussions more confidently and productively? This article presents a way to do that and gives suggestions for getting started.

8. The Lighter Side: Word Sudoku

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, you complete Word Sudoku puzzles by using letters, not numbers, and spelling a target word.

9. The Mystery Bag: Listening and Speaking Skills for Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a fun guessing game that involves objects in a “mystery bag” and gives learners practice with vocabulary and with asking and answering questions.

10. Online Reading Strategies for the Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    This article presents three clear strategies for reading online content effectively and productively, with examples and a helpful discussion of differences between reading content online and reading printed texts.

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