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1. Teacher's Corner: Modals

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner we explore interactive ways to have your students practice using modals correctly in the classroom.

2. Teacher's Corner: Gerunds and Infinitives

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the uses of gerunds and infinitives, how to use them, and when.

3. Oh What Fun! Learning English with O'Henry

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Website

   In this webinar, explore ways to help students learn language, culture through a collection of O. Henry’s most famous short stories.

4. Week 3 - Making Requests with Modals

   In: Teacher's Corner: Modals Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students learn the various ways to make requests using modals.

5. Teacher's Corner: Prepositions

   Format(s): Text

   Prepositions can be tricky for English language learners. This week’s Teacher’s Corner introduces two activities during which students practice the prepositions in, at, and on.

6. Gamified Learning: Two Activities that Foster Fun and Excitement into Any Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Games are a great way for students to learn and practice language concepts and vocabulary. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner article, you’ll learn two basic games that do not require much in the way of materials and preparation. Moreover, they can be easily adapted for reviewing or reinforcing any number of language skills or elements! Read on to see how you can bring these games into your classroom.

7. Week 2 - Let's Have a Party

   In: Teacher's Corner: Phrasal Verbs Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner provides students the opportunity to practice using phrasal verbs related to life experiences and planning a party.

8. Strategies to Support Comprehension in Early Literacy

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Focusing on comprehension with beginner-level students can seem challenging. When students are just beginning to learn how to read, it can feel overwhelming to add comprehension activities.

9. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

10. World News Report

    In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

    Bring the news into your classroom. This week’s Teacher’s Corner shows how students can practice reported speech while reporting news stories.

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