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1. Picture This – Questions, Questions

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   This game gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Download the cards and instructions for the game.

2. The Lighter Side: The Write Stuff

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Do you like puzzles and words? Then check out this English Teaching Forum crossword puzzle.

3. Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This

   Format(s): Text

   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

4. Picture This – Simple Switches

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card.

5. Unpublished

   Grace Bowers 

   Format(s): MP3, Text, Video

   Emerging on the music scene as a dynamic performer, Grace Bowers has played the Allman Family Revival at the legendary Ryman Auditorium, notably made her Newport Folk Festival debut in 2023 with three sets, and is slated to release her debut album this year.

6. Sing Out Loud Children's Songs

   Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   Sing Out Loud Children's Songs CD includes popular children's songs in the U.S.A. Several posters accompany the individual Sing Out Loud Children's Songs.

7. Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels

   Format(s): Text

   On this page, you’ll find everything you need to get started with comics and graphic novels.

8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

   Format(s): Text

   An adaptation of the timeless novel by Mark Twain. Part of the Ladder Series, this volume has approximately 2000 headwords and is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners.

9. Poems Made Into Songs

   In: Poetry Format(s): MP3

   Students from all over the world participated in poetry writing to celebrate National Poetry Month. Three of the poems were then made into songs! Listen to them or download the MP3s here!

10. Board Games

    In: Activate: Games for Learning American English Format(s): Text

    The board games in 'Activate: Games for Learning American English' show the paths that the players must follow and the English phrases that the players must produce orally. Each board game has a theme that requires the students to produce certain types of expressions, so they practice a variety of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and functional meanings.

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