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1. Trace Effects Teacher's Manual

   Format(s): Text

   This Trace Effects manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks.

2. Week 4 - Using Skype in the Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens Format(s): Text

   There are many ways to use online video conferencing to bring the world to your classroom. This week’s Teacher’s Corner shows you how!

3. Listen Up! Using Audio Books for English Teaching

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

   "Listen Up! Using Audio Books for English Teaching" features a webinar recording, a downloadable presentation, and classic American literature like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, along with additional resources.

4. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we examine four activities that help teachers teach academic writing.

5. Information Gap in Communicative Classrooms

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author argues that exchanges in the classroom must go beyond display questions and should be based on the information gap that occurs when one speaker does not know in advance what the other is going to say. The author provides examples of information gap activities to promote a communicative classroom. Activity types include practical situations, guessing games, role plays, opinion gap activities, and reasoning gap activities. The author argues that these activities have real communicative value.

6. Opportunities to Engage Professionally Outside of the Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Format(s): Text

   Language teaching professionals have many opportunities for professional development that are outside of the classroom and school.

7. Teacher's Corner: Simple Ways to Incorporate Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Teaching vocabulary and common phrases is an essential task of the English language classroom, but it is also important to teach the pragmatics of a language to help learners use language appropriately in different situations. This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the idea of pragmatics and why it is a valuable component to include in instruction. The article also contains resources and ideas for including pragmatics instruction and building up students’ pragmatic competence.

8. Week 3 - English on Tour

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Opportunities Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner provides students with the opportunity to practice speaking and presentation skills through a tour guide activity.

9. Positive Language in the EFL Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Classroom Management Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner explores a few quick ways to use tone, words, and body language to foster positive classroom rapport, mutual respect, and trust.

10. Information Gaps: Drawing Dictation

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

    Information gaps are great activities for increasing student talk time and motivation. The June Teacher’s Corner examines the many forms information gaps can take. Each week will showcase another practical and fun classroom activity that uses a different information gap variation.

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