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1. Trees

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a thematic lesson plan for young learners about palm trees and the importance of taking care of them. The two part lesson teaches listening, reading and speaking skills. The lesson includes parts of a tree; the modal auxiliary, can; dialogues and a role play activity.

2. Classroom Activities

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

   This piece offers three activities that give students practice with vocabulary, grouping of similar terms, the use of future and present tenses, and identifying grammatical categories such as adjectives, verbs, and nouns.

3. Getting the Most Out of the Dictionary

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Inspired by questions from language teachers, this discussion of dictionaries (reprinted from 1974) explores their utility in determining pronunciation, meaning, and points of grammar and makes recommendations about the kind of dictionaries teachers should use with their students.

4. The Lighter Side: Train of Thought

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet focuses on phrasal verbs in a context of train rides.

5. The Lighter Side: "Traffic Jam"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet requires unscrambling a factual statement about cars and a follow-up question that can be used for classroom discussion.

6. Trace Effects Manual - Chapter 3

   In: Trace Effects Teacher's Manual Format(s): Text

   This manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks for Chapter 3 of Trace Effects.

7. Trace Effects Manual- Chapter 6

   In: Trace Effects Teacher's Manual Format(s): Text

   The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State.

8. Spoken Grammar and Its Role in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Spoken grammar has an important role in communicative English language teaching, and teachers who understand how to teach it can improve their students’ fluency.

9. Why English? Comics for the Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   This resource can be used by teachers and learners. It includes notes for teachers and activities to use in the classroom at the end of each story.

10. Exploring Contexts: A Tense and Aspect Activity for Online and In-Person Instruction

    In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    The author carefully explains how to carry out a clever but easy-to-implement activity that helps students increase their facility with tense and aspect in fun, collaborative, and creative ways.

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