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1. Week 1 - Building a Strong Classroom Community

   In: Teacher's Corner: Promoting Learner Engagement Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we offer three suggestions to promote student-student relationships. You can use these in your own classrooms as you work toward greater student engagement.

2. "Move and Say" to Build Foundational Reading Skills

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

   In the introduction for this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we defined phonemic awareness as a student’s ability to understand that words are made up of sounds.

3. World Wide Wiki

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses how to use wikis for collaborative writing in the classroom. Students create their own world fact books with this activity!

4. “What would happen if…?” Chain Stories

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

   Students use oral or written conditionals to develop a series of related “cause and effect” events. The chain of events will create a short, often funny, story!

5. Information Gaps: Visual Prompts and Oral Clues

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity is “20 Questions with Picture Cards.” Students use visual prompts to exchange information and achieve their goal.

6. Picture Comparisons

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week's Teacher's Corner activity features the use of pictures to encourage speaking and writing practice while using comparative adjectives.

7. Prepositions of Movement

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner includes a fun treasure hunt activity during which students practice prepositions of movement.

8. Business Start Up

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

   This week, students will have the opportunity to practice communicating business ideas to the rest of class by creating a start-up business.

9. Fantasy Politics

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner features a game that uses fun competition to get students excited about current affairs.

10. Information Gaps: Graphic Organizers and Oral Clues

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

    This week’s activity is an information gap using schedules. Speaking English, students collaborate to reach a shared solution.

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