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1. Reported Speech - Trace Effects

   In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

   Many students like learning games, and you can use them for teaching English. This week’s Teacher’s Corner shows you how to use the game Trace Effects with your students to practice reported speech.

2. Week 4 - The Elevator Pitch

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship Format(s): Text

   Show students how to develop and perform an elevator pitch for a company idea in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

3. 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.

4. Teacher's Corner: Online Learning

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   The Teacher’s Corner this month is all about online learning. This week, we will define terms common in the field of online learning and investigate the pros and cons of using online learning as part of our classroom practice.

5. Strategies for Engaging Young Learners

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   The difficulty in teaching young learners (YLs) in the EFL classroom is maintaining engagement throughout the lesson. Therefore, teachers of YLs need to incorporate activities that are meaningful, engaging, and also entertaining. This webinar will share practical tips and ideas for engaging young learners in the EFL classroom, including using fun songs with humor, using actions to accompany poetry and song lyrics, and promoting creativity. We will also focus on techniques for making input comprehensible, such as using gestures, visuals, and realia as learning tools. When using a variety of techniques and activities, children forget they are in a step-by-step language lesson, and the learning comes naturally.

6. Teacher's Corner: Promoting Learner Engagement

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner provides ideas for promoting learner engagement.

7. Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens

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   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we will present classroom resources and activities that can help to foster a sense of global citizenship in your students.

8. The Monster Book of Language Teaching Activities

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   The Monster Book, has over 150 activities intended to liven up the language classroom, giving students active options for practicing the four skills.

9. Gamified Learning: Two Activities that Foster Fun and Excitement into Any Classroom

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   Games are a great way for students to learn and practice language concepts and vocabulary. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner article, you’ll learn two basic games that do not require much in the way of materials and preparation. Moreover, they can be easily adapted for reviewing or reinforcing any number of language skills or elements! Read on to see how you can bring these games into your classroom.

10. “What would you do if…?” Making Plans to Deal with Difficult Situations

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

    In this activity, students will practice or review how to use conditionals to discuss plans to get out of tricky situations. This conditional form used for this language function is called the unreal future conditional or the second conditional.

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