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1. Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers

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

   This webinar, "Teacher Talk: Presentation Skills for Teachers," explores the notions of Teacher Talk Time and Teacher Wait Time.

2. Presenting Ideas through Digital Storytelling in the English Language Classroom

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

   This webinar, "Presenting Ideas through Digital Storytelling in the English Language Classroom," focuses on using digital storytelling techniques as an effective way to promote engagement.

3. To Correct or Not Correct? Ideas for Subtle Error Correction During Speaking Tasks

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

   This webinar presents techniques designed to correct students’ grammar without interrupting the free flow of speech or the lesson.

4. Keep it Moving: Ideas for Fun, Active Classroom Activities

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

   During this session, Regional English Language Officer Kevin McCaughey shares his approach to a dynamic classroom space: The Movable Class. Kevin explains how this approach will help you to use more group work, design student-centered activities, and become a more confident classroom manager, all while you and your students have more fun!

5. Effective Strategies for Teaching Large Classes

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

   This session, "Effective Strategies for Teaching Large Classes," explores thought-provoking techniques for creating engaging and interactive lesson plans when working with large, multi-level classes.

6. Making Reading Fun: Engaging Pre-Reading Activities for ELLs

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

   This session, “Promoting Reading Fluency with the ACTIVE Framework,” explores the six elements of the ACTIVE reading framework, designed to systematically enhance reading skills in the EFL classroom. We’ll demonstrate practical, adaptable activities for each framework component!

7. Bringing Grammar to Life with Experiential Learning

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text

   This session, “Bringing Grammar to Life with Experiential Learning,” explores how to create authentic, communicative learning experiences when teaching English verb tenses; exciting approaches incorporating realia, role plays, group projects, and multisensory activities will be demonstrated.

8. Story Theater

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article introduces an interactive and engaging classroom activity entitled Story Theater. The goal of this activity is to provide students with a text to read aloud as they act out the storyline using props and special effects. The purpose of Story Theater is to aid fluency and memorization and to provide students with a chance to use the language and their imaginations. This activity can be used with all ages and all English proficiency levels. The author includes examples of effective Story Theater lessons.

9. The Children’s Response

   Format(s): Text

   The Children’s Response is based on Asher’s Total Physical Response (TPR) method.

10. Lesson Plan: Using Journalism Skills in the Language Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    This lesson plan contains four activities based on the theme of newspapers and journalism. It includes a lesson to familiarize students with newspapers, journalistic writing, interviewing, and creating a class newspaper. The activities can be used as individual lessons or a larger project of creating a class newspaper.

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