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1. Seattle, Washington: The Rainy City

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is an introduction to Seattle, including its history, attractions, geographical characteristics, and interesting facts. The introduction also contains many pictures of local attractions.

2. Chicago, Illinois: The Windy City

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This is an introduction to Chicago, including its brief history, attractions, geographical characteristics, and interesting facts. It also contains pictures of local attractions.

3. Meeting EFL Learners Halfway by Using Locally Relevant Authentic Materials

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article presents five categories of authentic materials and sources for materials along with ways to use them in the EFL classroom.

4. The Power of the Picture Book

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author shares techniques for using picture books—starting with the cover and moving on through the illustrations and text—to engage children and get them thinking and talking.

5. One of These Does Not Belong: Creating Interesting Multiple-Choice Questions for Teaching and Testing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author presents a simple, clever way to make all kinds of multiple-choice questions more interesting and more challenging for learners. Teachers can use the technique with both online and face-to-face instruction.

6. Task-Based Reading Activities Using Authentic Materials and Skills

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author describes in detail a two-stage reading activity that incorporates authentic materials, task-based learning, and stations. The article includes ideas for adaptation and presents a number of further teaching applications.

7. Writing about a Peacemaker

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The authors use peace education as a framework to present an assignment in which students read and write about a peacemaker “to reflect on the meaning of peace and how it can be achieved.”

8. Using Nonprofit Commercials to Teach English

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

   The author presents detailed lesson models for using nonprofit commercials in both topic-based and project-based learning.

9. Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Educators need to learn how best to use the increasingly popular mobile phone technology to support learning in the language classroom. This author outlines the benefits as well as potential problems and solutions of mobile phone use, giving twenty practical ideas for classroom activities, such as using a voice recorder to capture conversations outside the classroom.

10. Ten Great Low-Cost Teaching Tools

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    Teachers are asked to do a lot with few resources. Some teachers must move quickly from school to school throughout the day. This article describes the teaching bag, which is made to help teachers be effective and save money. The author's teaching tools are lightweight, affordable, and multi-purposed. They include the expected (e.g., scissors and scratch paper, colored markers) as well as the more unique (e.g., sticky putty, pizza box lids).

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