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1. Turning Logic-Grid Puzzles into a Communicative Activity

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author, Gavin Young, offers a detailed guide showing how to create custom-made logic-grid puzzles and how to present and use them in class to promote learners’ speaking, listening, and thinking skills. The author uses an original puzzle he created as a working example throughout the article.

2. The Lighter Side: The Happiness Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, your job is to unscramble groups of letters to spell things that happy people might do, then to fill in blanks to spell out things that make many people happy. After solving the puzzle, you are encouraged to think of your own puzzle items—or have your students create some and happily share with their classmates.

3. The Lighter Side: Scrambled Lyrics

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, you are given the first lines to songs, but the second lines to those songs are not only scrambled—they are also out of order. Your job is to unscramble each of the second lines and then match it with the first line that it follows. If you and your students are feeling creative, after solving the puzzle you can continue the songs with your own ideas and even make up melodies and sing them.

4. Identifying Our Approaches to Language Learning Technologies: Improving Professional Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article emphasizes Warschauer's Model, explaining the three positions that researchers working in the field of language technology are concerned about: determinist or technophobe and technophile, instrumental, and critical. The article discusses the importance and application of Warschauer’s Model to professional development, offering ideas for activities and lesson plans related to each position held.

5. Tools for Activating Materials and Tasks in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article presents techniques to make classroom materials and tasks more interactive and student-centered and thus motivate learners to take more control over their own learning. It demonstrates these techniques through elicitation, gapping, and adaptation/extension strategies. The article offers examples of classroom activities with detailed instructions to show how teachers can use materials and tasks in the English language classroom to address students’ interests, needs, and goals.

6. My Classroom: Ethiopia

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Dawit Negeri has been teaching in the English Department at Ambo University for the past five years.

7. English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   English Teaching Forum supports the teaching of English around the world through the exchange of innovative, practical ideas. Below is a description of each section of the journal, along with suggestions about how to use it.

8. Publish, Don't Perish: Ten Tips

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

   The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to identifying the hidden rules and explicating the sometimes intimidating world of publishing.

9. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

10. English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4

    Format(s): Text

    Find suggestions for vocabulary games, crowdsourced language learning, literary coaching—and much more.

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