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1. Character Press Conference

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to helping students conduct a “press conference” in which some students play the role of journalists and others play the roles of characters from a work of fiction in order to give all students a deeper understanding of the characters and the text.

2. The Lighter Side: Joke Matching

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The punch lines to these jokes are out of order. Can you match them with the correct questions to form jokes that make sense?

3. Using Nonprofit Commercials to Teach English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author presents detailed lesson models for using nonprofit commercials in both topic-based and project-based learning.

4. Assessing Learners’ Productive Vocabulary Knowledge: Formats and Considerations

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors acknowledge the difficulty and importance of assessing learners’ productive vocabulary knowledge and present five flexible test formats, with clear examples, that can be used for formative assessment.

5. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

6. Exploring Contexts: A Tense and Aspect Activity for Online and In-Person Instruction

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author carefully explains how to carry out a clever but easy-to-implement activity that helps students increase their facility with tense and aspect in fun, collaborative, and creative ways.

7. Small Talks: Daily Speaking Practice for Vocabulary and Grammar Mastery

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step guide to helping students review recently learned vocabulary and grammar through quick, focused conversations with classmates at the beginning of class. Variations and suggestions for extending the activity are included.

8. The Lighter Side: The “Best” Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Can you complete these sentences that contain the word “best”? And can you match each completed sentence with its meaning?

9. Reader’s Guide

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

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

10. Reflections: Forum at 60

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

    This is the first of four articles looking at various aspects of Forum as the journal moves into its 60th year of publication. This article reviews milestones and major changes that Forum has undergone over the last six decades.

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