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1. Opening and Closing Routines for Multi-Level Classrooms

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

   This session, "Opening and Closing Routines for Multi-Level Classrooms ," demonstrates how to create strong beginnings and endings during language lessons to help teachers meet mixed-level student needs as well as their curriculum requirements.

2. My Classroom: Slovenia

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Damir Soldat teaches English in Slovenia, not far from the borders with Croatia and Hungary, and he takes advantage of his region’s multilingualism in his teaching. Author Edwin Harris describes Damir’s approach to teaching in this unique environment and shows how Damir incorporates creativity, resourcefulness, and music—other singers’ and his own—to foster “culture exchange in his small town to help kids achieve their dreams in whatever language they need.”

3. Using Visible Thinking Routines in the Language Classroom

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

   This session "Using Visible Thinking Routines in the Language Classroom," introduces visible thinking routines that can enrich communicative dynamics, stimulate productive engagement, and foster insightful expression–a valuable addition to any language teacher’s instructional toolbox!

4. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This "Classroom Activities" features three stand-alone language-learning activity related to the theme of summer.

5. English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 1

   Format(s): Text

   Find strategies for combining multimodal materials with modes of communication to create authentic online communicative activities … incorporating digital multimodal composition into English language classes … adding innovative, instructive twists to mingles … creating a narrative flipbook … and much more.

6. English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   Niagara Falls is an oil painting by American landscape artist George Inness, who lived from 1825 to 1894. This work, created in 1885, depicts one of the most popular tourist attractions in North America; the Falls are located in the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. The painting is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, which features more works by Inness and by thousands of other artists.

7. Bowling: Entertainment for All Ages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This feature article on bowling is written for learners. Bowling has changed in recent years and is growing in popularity once again. The article includes the history of bowling and recent trends, such as cosmic bowling, virtual bowling, efforts to make bowling appeal to kids and more. At the end of the article, readers will find bowling vocabulary, a list of related websites, and a section on “Bowling Basics.”

8. Creating a Storytelling Classroom for a Storytelling World

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article explores the value of storytelling in English language learning. Strong emphasis is placed on the role that stories of personal experience play in human interaction and how these natural conversations foster a better language learning experience. The author outlines a four-step approach to help students develop conversational skills as storytellers, including techniques for improving fluency and honing listening skills.

9. Exploring Children's Picture Storybooks with Adult and Adolescent EFL Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author presents a theoretical framework for using picture storybooks in teaching EFL to adults, suggesting that the storybooks are helpful in teaching both mechanics and culture. The article provides activities and resources and suggests themes that can be explored through the picture storybooks.

10. Using Raphael's QARs as Differentiated Instruction with Picture Books

    In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    A differentiated instruction technique this author uses is Question Answer Relationships (QARs), a strategy to aid reading comprehension. The article describes four QAR types and demonstrates them in differentiated reading and writing lessons, with accompanying worksheets, based on a children’s book, The Carrot Seed.

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