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1. Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article outlines a lesson plan for teaching modals of speculation that express degrees of certainty, using audio-visual techniques. It identifies the teacher's lesson preparation, required materials, and specific ways to engage students in the special interactive environment. It highlights the effectiveness of audio-visual resources to represent and illustrate abstract concepts. The article also provides ideas for variations of the lesson plan, employing video and sound effects to teach grammar, vocabulary, and creative writing.

2. English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1

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   Hear and read about the blues! This issue's feature article on the history and culture of blues music has accompanying sound files. Other topics include teaching the present perfect progressive, ready-to-use methodology materials, tutorials, and reflective journals.

3. English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3

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   Read this issue to learn how to build grit, give clear instructions, and make service learning work for you, your students, and your community.

4. English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1

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   Learn creative ways to add movement to your classroom, new ways to use music and songs, tips for supporting out-of-class reading—and much more.

5. English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2

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   English Teaching Forum supports the teaching of English around the world through the exchange of innovative, practical ideas.

6. English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 2

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   This issue opens with articles on merging environmental education and language instruction and “Film Circles.” The “Reflections” section features “From Unity to Diversity… to Diversity within Unity” by Diane Larsen-Freeman...

7. Teaching Techniques: Guided Meditation in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This teaching technique focuses on meditation in the classroom. Meditation has been linked to increased ability to focus and to lowering depression, anxiety, and stress. Meditation is an act of focusing one’s thoughts completely and fully. It is being present in the moment, silencing other thoughts and noise running through our minds.

8. English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2

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   Adapting authentic materials, misconception analysis, whole-learning reading, and international business ethics are among the articles in this issue.

9. English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 3

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   This issues addresses velocity and the velocipede, the TOEFL and Grammar, and statistics and research design.

10. Using VOA Special English to Improve Advanced English Learners' Productive Use of High Frequency Words

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This article focuses on advanced ESL learners’ acquisition of the spelling, pronunciation, and comprehension of high-frequency words at the productive skill level rather than at the receptive skill level. It discusses the use of the Voice of America (VOA) Special English program to expose learners to different activities requiring productive skills. The article offers examples of how the VOA program exposes learners to comprehensible input through high-frequency words and helps them produce these words both in writing and speaking.

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