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1. Week 3 - Strategy Three: Progress Checks

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

   Looking for motivation strategies to add to lessons? This week, we’ll discover how using progress checks during class time can keep students’ attention while they monitor their own progress.

2. Week 4 - Journal Discussion

   In: Creating a Positive Classroom Community Format(s): Text

   In our final week of this month’s Teacher’s Corner, students introduce and meet a classmate through a written journal discussion.

3. Vocabulary Listening Cloze and Word Stress Chart with "Into The Garden"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text

   This listening activity uses an audio clip from Zach Ladin's “Into the Garden,” a song from Sing Out Loud: American Rhythms.

4. Over-Tourism

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of travel and tourism. With travel becoming easier and cheaper all around the world, people who live in popular tourist locations have begun to ask if too much tourism can be a problem. In this week’s activity, students will debate the positives and negatives of tourism.

5. Practicing Irregular Forms with the "Which One Would the World be Better Without? Why?" Board Game

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity uses an Activate board game. The game creates opportunities for students to use the irregular comparative and superlative forms for ‘good’ and ‘bad.’

6. The Pragmatics of Greetings: Teaching Speech Acts in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article will provide background information on this important speech act and instructional strategies for use in the classroom to help teachers equip their students with a critical component to successful interactions.

7. Interview Vocabulary

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

   The beginning of any great new career starts with an interview. In the United States, the job interview is a chance for a company to see how the skills and personality of an applicant will fit their workplace.

8. Video Games: The New Media Literacy

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. This week’s Teacher’s Corner, focuses on several video games that can be used in the classroom. Engage your students and help them learn with these free videogames.

9. Calamity - Natural Disaster Preparation

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will learn about natural disasters and disaster prevention by playing an online game that uses real-world issues.

10. Raising Phonological Awareness: A Task that benefits Language Learners with and without Learning Disabilities

    In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

    Teachers are tasked with many roles in the language classroom. In addition to teaching language, many must also act as cultural interpreters, counselors, disciplinarians, motivational speakers, and more.

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