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1. Keeping Discipline in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 3 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the challenges of keeping order in the classroom and provides suggestions for fostering an environment of mutual respect. The article looks at what students expect of teachers as well as temporary games and long-term strategies that students use to take control from the teacher. Some practical solutions to discipline problems include keeping students’ attention, establishing clear rules together, and addressing discipline problems by using nonverbal and verbal cues before reacting to the problem.

2. Assessment of Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses how the trend towards low-anxiety, communicative-based language teaching and integrated language and content teaching has created a need to change assessment strategies for young learners. The author describes alternative assessment techniques such as nonverbal responses, oral interview, narratives, group assessment, and dialogue journals, and suggests how they can be carried out through regular classroom work.

3. Make a Vertical, Whole-Class Board Game

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Author Kevin McCaughey takes game-boarding to another dimension by showing how teachers and students can turn part of a classroom into a board game that the entire class can play. Step-by-step instructions ensure that teachers will know exactly how to apply the idea of vertical games in their own classrooms—and will be able to let students not only play the games, but help create them, too.

4. The Lighter Side (answers)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 1 Format(s): Text

   Answers are provided for the "J-Words Crossword Puzzle" and "Postcard Word Search"

5. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This quiz tests students’ knowledge of idioms related to cars and driving.

6. Summertime Photos

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   This collection of photos highlights activities that are popular among Americans, especially in the summer.

7. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

8. Book Clubs as a Tool for Community Building and Language Enhancement

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author uses her own experience starting and facilitating a book club to give advice to others interested in creating a book club in their schools or communities.

9. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 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.

10. The Lighter Side

    In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This puzzle is called Mountain Climbing, with clues for words that give encouragement to people climbing a mountain or taking on other difficult challenges.

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