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1. Writing Consultations

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   Conducting teacher-student consultations during the writing process can be valuable to student. In this week’s Teachers Corner, we offer a template for conducting a successful teacher-student writing consultation.

2. Week 2 - Cold Calling

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship Format(s): Text

   Instead of waiting for jobs to be advertised before contacting an employer, job seekers are using creative ways to make connections with potential employers.

3. Strategies to Support Comprehension in Early Literacy

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Focusing on comprehension with beginner-level students can seem challenging. When students are just beginning to learn how to read, it can feel overwhelming to add comprehension activities.

4. Week 2 - Building a Resume

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will practice proofreading and editing a resume and cover letter before writing one of their own.

5. A Postcard from America

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 1 Format(s): Text

   This feature article for learner use is by author Robert Olen Butler. It briefly describes the history and cultural aspects of postcards. The author provides detail about several postcards in his personal collection. He values the images and the glimpses into people’s lives as written on the postcards. A glossary of terms and images of postcards accompany the article. Appropriate for high intermediate to advanced students.

6. Superstitions

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

   In this activity, students will examine superstition statements in English, will think about English equivalents for superstitions from their own culture, and will play a short guessing game related to superstitions.

7. Transcript Correction with “The Gift of the Magi”

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

   This activity also reflects listening fluency-building principles because students perform supported listening through simultaneous use of audio and written texts, students listen to the text more than once, and the text itself has been graded for EFL learners.

8. Progressive Tense: "He is Looking for Emma Fields"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive

9. Activity for Progressive Tense Review: He is looking for Emma Fields

   Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive.

10. Building Classroom Community through Drawing

    In: Teacher's Corner: Using Art in the English Language Classroom Format(s): Text

    This week’s Teacher’s Corner features a drawing version of show and tell – a fun way to develop a strong sense of classroom community.

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