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1. Wordscapes

   Format(s): Image / Poster / Maps

   Wordscapes is a collection of ten full-color illustrations of American landscapes, including the forest, plains, desert, and more.

2. Webinar 2.3: Tips and Tools to Strengthen Participation and Engagement in Online Learning Contexts

   Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar, Tips And Tools To Strengthen Participation and Engagement In Online Learning Contexts, begins with a general overview of different course delivery formats including MOOCs, blended or hybrid courses, and courses run fully online.

3. The Pinwheel: A Classroom Design for Boosting Social Learning

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "The Pinwheel: A Classroom Design for Boosting Social Learning," introduces the “Pinwheel” classroom structure.

4. Making Reading Fun: Engaging Pre-Reading Activities for ELLs

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, “Promoting Reading Fluency with the ACTIVE Framework,” explores the six elements of the ACTIVE reading framework, designed to systematically enhance reading skills in the EFL classroom. We’ll demonstrate practical, adaptable activities for each framework component!

5. Implementing Content-Based Language Instruction in your Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   "Implementing Content-based Language Instruction in Your Classroom" examines the needs of teachers who are currently using or interested in content-based language instruction (CBI) in the classroom.

6. Exploring Generational Culture through Oral Histories

   Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Exploring Generational Culture through Oral Histories," presents an oral exchange project where students interview older adults to learn about culture, history, society, technological advances, and more.

7. Assess and Motivate: Student Portfolios and Self-Assessments in the EFL Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Assess and Motivate: Student Portfolios and Self-Assessments in the EFL Classroom," explores the use of portfolios and self-assessments that document the completion of performance-based tasks as a great way to motivate students and measure learning.

8. FORUM City Poster Show (Set 1, 12 posters - Full Set)

   Format(s): Text

   These poster sets are a great, flexible classroom resource for information and discussion—each set of three posters corresponds to a city spotlighted in Forum vol. 46 and the feature article about that city, available online.

9. Regrets and Wishes of the Rich, Famous, or Fictional

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

   In this activity, students will practice or review using conditionals to express wishes and regrets about the past. This conditional form used in this situation is often called the past unreal conditional or the third conditional.

10. “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!

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