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1. 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.

2. Teaching Students How to Write a Description with Photos

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique explains what the author describes as a pre-task for teaching students to write descriptively about a photo diary that students create themselves.

3. Try This: Go for the Grit!

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

   This step-by-step activity teaches students the meaning and importance of grit and provides two case studies that are ready to use in the classroom.

4. 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.

5. I Raise My Voice: Promoting Self-Authoring through a Curriculum-Based Project

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this article, the author describes a study on the use of a self-designed ESL online curriculum to cultivate self-authoring.

6. TRY THIS Guess Who?

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this activity, students discuss one of their favorite topics—themselves! The activity involves listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it can be adapted for almost any language feature.

7. Activities to Support Students’ Out-of-Class Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Teaching Technique gives suggestions for supporting students’ reading outside the classroom.

8. TRY THIS Skim, Scan, Run

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Here is a step-by-step guide to getting students out of their seats and moving around – and skimming and scanning reading texts.

9. Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials

   Format(s): Text

   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will discuss different types of authentic materials and the benefits and challenges of using them.

10. Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

    In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    This is a step-by-step guide for having students create a basic idea for their own movie and then write and perform a “movie trailer” to promote their movie.

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