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1. Create Your Own Board Game Competition

   Get ready for the 3^rd annual American English at State’s Create Your Own Board Game Competition (CYOBG)! We challenge you to create your own board games for your classrooms and submit them to the CYOBG Competition. Each winner will enjoy having their winning board game posted on the American English website! Winners will be announced on Monday, November 30th. 

2. About Us

   American English is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture. This website provides a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom.

3. Black Alley: Be Me

   In: ENGLISH LANGUAGE THROUGH LYRICS Format(s): MP3, Text

   Washington, D.C. based BLACK ALLEY has been pushing the art of music to its rhythmic limits for some time now.

4. English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   Find new ways to teach lexical cohesion, learn how to promote self-authoring, discover “Pair counting,” and get other useful teaching ideas in the final issue of 2017.

5. English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1

   Format(s): Text

   Learn creative ways to add movement to your classroom, new ways to use music and songs, tips for supporting out-of-class reading—and much more.

6. Discussion Strategies for Meaningful, Effective Webinar Practice

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   Participants will discover specific ways to help students engage and connect meaningfully in English conversation practice.

7. What Happened to Listening? Practical Tips for Increasing Listening Time in Your Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): MP3, Text, Video

   This webinar explores why listening sometimes gets short shrift in English classes and provides tips for bringing fun, low-preparation listening tasks to your lessons.

8. English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 4

   Format(s): Text

   Topics include the use of ethics in the EFL classroom, tips for reading extensively, native language intrusions, vocabulary work, an integrated lesson plan for "For Life's Sake" by Linda Hogan, and a brief history of the First Americans.

9. Jessica Lynn: Run To

   In: ENGLISH LANGUAGE THROUGH LYRICS Format(s): MP3, Text

   We have created lesson plans and a video series to use in the classroom. Download all lesson materials under resources. This collection from American English provides fun new ways of teaching and learning English. Use these files in conjunction with the song in this language package for an integrated teaching experience.

10. Max

    In: American Teens Talk! Format(s): MP3, Text

    Max plays piano and bass guitar. Read and listen to Max talk about his school orchestra's trip to Georgia, and what he does on a typical school day.

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