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  1. The Line Between Questions, Responses, and Readers

    In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This article uses the Stephen Crane story “The Open Boat” (freely available on the American English website) as an anchor text to demonstrate how teachers can apply Raphael’s Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) technique to a text that students might be assigned to read. The article includes numerous examples and tips that teachers can use to adapt the technique to other texts as a way to enhance student engagement and interest in reading.
  2. Football: Action on the Gridiron

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    This issue features an in-depth article on the history, mechanics, gameplay, culture, and appeal of American football as well as a piece on America's yearly big event (the Super Bowl). There are powerful, dynamic sports photographs and descriptive, numbers-based explanations of how to play. The historical context reveals that football is not purely an American creation. A discussion of current-day football describes it as an event instead of just a game. A vocabulary section is also included so that students can learn how to 'talk football.'
  3. English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 2

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    Find suggestions and resources for planning and conducting a successful English Camp … using pop songs productively, for language practice and much more … turning Forum’s “The Lighter Side” puzzles into versatile teaching tools … giving students question-and-answer practice with light-hearted job interviews that provide serious benefits … and producing customized vocabulary wheels for fun, interactive language practice.
  4. English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3

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    Baseball is the focus of this issue. "Baseball: A National Tradition" offers an in-depth look at this popular American sport, while the Lesson Plan provides activities to interest students in baseball. Other articles in this issue discuss teaching critical thinking to prepare EFL students for university success, setting up oral homework, using mobile phones in the language classroom, and an innovative way to use literature to teach advanced EFL students.
  5. English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4

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    This issue features American football. The Athletes, Actions, and Adjectives lesson plan introduces basic ideas about U.S. football team names. Following up, The Lighter Side provides puzzles related to football. Other articles discuss using 'I-can' statements to promote confidence in writing, writing professional articles, macrostrategies for L2 teacher observation and feedback, and low-cost teaching tools.
  6. English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 1

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    Starting off the year of the American City, New York City is Forum’s first stop and the subject of this issue’s feature article. Accompanying the article is a lesson plan entitled “Exploring New York City.” Other topics in this issue include the progression of the field of TESOL, language awareness, applying reading research to lesson plan development, suggestions for academic writing instruction, and using anecdotes in language classes.
  7. Alternatives to Current Pedagogy for Teaching the Present Perfect Progressive

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    These researchers collected 250 samples of spoken and written American English from high-level communicators and analyzed the use of the present perfect progressive tense. They compared these samples to five leading ESL and EFL grammar textbooks. This article reviews the research and findings. The five leading textbooks provided good overall structure for teaching the present perfect progressive tense, but the use of the tense was critically influenced by broad context, adverbs, temporal context and the uses of other tenses including the present and present perfect tense.
  8. English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 3

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    This issue rounds up articles with a number of teaching ideas. Features include the uniquely American sport of rodeo and an integrated skills lesson plan for "Just off Main Street" by Elmaz Abinader. Other articles explore the areas of critical thinking, writing for extensive reading, developing pragmatic competence, teacher assessment, and keeping discipline in the classroom.
  9. Lesson Plan: Athletes, Actions, and Adjectives

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    People who are very familiar with American football and those completely unfamiliar with it can benefit from the interactive, communicative activities presented in this lesson plan. Students can analyze examples from the NFL and create their own team names, team logos, and player descriptions. Ideas for teaching adjectives and body parts are also provided. In the spirit of the game, the plan features quick, lively group activities, all under 50 minutes each.
  10. Integrating Indigenous Cultures into English Language Teaching

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    The authors present a variety of EFL lesson plans focused on various cultures of the world (e.g., Bantu storytelling, Maori tattoos, Native American star quilts). Teachers are encouraged to help students connect with their own cultures to keep them alive.

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