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1. Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Looking for ways to add art activities to your English language classroom? Create to Communicate is filled with great activities and lessons that use art to foster English language development.

2. Lesson Plan: A Letter from Miami: A Telenovela

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan contains four activities that can prepare students for the final activity of creating a video or a play. There are also two optional activities to help students learn grammar, and a fact sheet about Miami.

3. Better Writing with Big Paper: Peer Correction in Collaborative Learning Teams

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author explains how to use “Big Paper” as the basis of a hands-on, collaborative, student-driven activity that helps learners focus on form, grammar, spelling, and punctuation in a unique and engaging approach to peer review.

4. A Paragraph-First Approach to the Teaching of Academic Writing

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

   This article begins by evaluating how academic writing is taught in EFL/ESL contexts—historically, the sentence has been seen as the basic element of written communication.

5. English Prime as an Instructional Tool in Writing Classes

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses a variety of ways to incorporate E-Prime, the idea that all forms of the verb “to be” need to be replaced in writing and speaking. The author shows how this can force ESL and EFL students to improve their writing and make them to spend more time with their essays, to think critically about acceptable grammar and vocabulary, and to search for new vocabulary.

6. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone language-learning activities for different level classrooms. The interactive activities focus on skills that familiarize students with simple sentence structures, present tense, grammar review through group work and games, a vocabulary review, and an activity to help students understand the concept of metaphors and use them in their writing.

7. Useful Resources for Editing Academic Writing in English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article describes how the author assisted graduate students with academic writing in English. It also shares useful resources for teachers in non-English speaking countries who are responsible for editing academic theses and dissertations, professional articles, and papers for international conferences. The author's editing process includes corrections written on the paper as well as typed, detailed explanations of grammar points and suggestions for rewording or reorganization. Online and print resources are included.

8. Classroom Activities

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

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to dogs.

9. Lesson Plan: Greetings from Sunny New Mexico

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The New Mexico lesson plan for this issue is a self-contained 1 1/4 to 2 hour lesson with a complete pre- during- post framework for interacting with the main text - a letter from a friend living in New Mexico. The focus here is on the vocabulary and grammar of description (e.g., words for scenery and weather, relative "that" clauses). Extension activities are provided for multi-session lessons (e.g., written response, class survey).

10. Poems About English and Access (1)

    In: Poetry Format(s): Text

    Read poems written by learners from around the world. The theme of these poems is English and Access Programs. Download the poems or read them online..

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