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1. Try This: How Was Your Weekend?

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This activity is a kind of mingle. In a mingle, students move individually from classmate to classmate, usually with a question to ask or specific information to find.

2. Teaching Techniques: Physical Vocabulary in the Beginner-Level Classroom

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

   This activity allows students to create their own physical interpretation of a vocabulary word, which increases their ability to remember it (Asher 1996).

3. Teacher's Corner: Simple Ways to Incorporate Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Teaching vocabulary and common phrases is an essential task of the English language classroom, but it is also important to teach the pragmatics of a language to help learners use language appropriately in different situations. This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the idea of pragmatics and why it is a valuable component to include in instruction. The article also contains resources and ideas for including pragmatics instruction and building up students’ pragmatic competence.

4. Compare and Contrast Variations for Same and Different Cards

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

   Our Teacher’s Corner this week encourages students to use comparative and superlative adjectives as they discuss groups of related items.

5. Information Gaps: Drawing Dictation

   In: Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities Format(s): Text

   Information gaps are great activities for increasing student talk time and motivation. The June Teacher’s Corner examines the many forms information gaps can take. Each week will showcase another practical and fun classroom activity that uses a different information gap variation.

6. Information Gaps: Mingle Activities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities Format(s): Text

   A mingle activity is another variation of an information gap activity. This week’s Teacher’s Corner outlines an excellent student-centered, communicative mingle activity to use in your classroom.

7. Developing Your Virtual Personal Learning Network (PLN)

   In: Teacher's Corner: Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will examine virtual components you can include in your personal learning network, as well as how to overcome some of the challenges teachers face when trying to navigate today’s ever-growing number of virtual learning opportunities and resources.

8. Fostering Student Motivation: Self-Directed Learning with the "Reading Train"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week’s teaching tip demonstrates how to use a combination of student choice, friendly competition, fun visuals, and rewards to motivate students to read more in English.

9. 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.

10. Creating a Visually Rich Classroom

    In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners Format(s): Text

    This week in the Teacher’s Corner, we present ideas for using visual support in the English language classroom for young learners.

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