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1. Compare and Contrast Variations for Same and Different Cards

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   Our Teacher’s Corner this week encourages students to use comparative and superlative adjectives as they discuss groups of related items.

2. Flipped Classrooms

   In: Teacher's Corner: Online Learning Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will examine a form of blended learning known as the flipped classroom model and look at the tools needed to help build a flipped classroom.

3. A-Z List of Publications

   Format(s): Text

   Browse the list of publications and resources produced by the U.S. Department of State, Office of English Language Programs for English language teachers and learners.

4. “What would you do if…?” Making Plans to Deal with Difficult Situations

   In: Teacher's Corner: Conditionals Format(s): Text

   In this activity, students will practice or review how to use conditionals to discuss plans to get out of tricky situations. This conditional form used for this language function is called the unreal future conditional or the second conditional.

5. Superstitions

   In: Teacher's Corner: Conditionals Format(s): Text

   In this activity, students will examine superstition statements in English, will think about English equivalents for superstitions from their own culture, and will play a short guessing game related to superstitions.

6. Transcript Correction with “The Gift of the Magi”

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text

   This activity also reflects listening fluency-building principles because students perform supported listening through simultaneous use of audio and written texts, students listen to the text more than once, and the text itself has been graded for EFL learners.

7. Practicing Irregular Forms with the "Which One Would the World be Better Without? Why?" Board Game

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity uses an Activate board game. The game creates opportunities for students to use the irregular comparative and superlative forms for ‘good’ and ‘bad.’

8. Cops and Robbers: "We Were Watching a Movie at the Movie Theater"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the past progressive during a role play in order to solve a crime.

9. Week 3 - Adjectives and Adverbs in Action

   In: Teacher's Corner: Grammar Games Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we present two games that will help students practice using adjectives and adverbs correctly.

10. Week 2 - Technology for Writing

    In: Teacher's Corner: Technology Tools for Students and Teachers Format(s): Text

    Teachers using technology in the classroom have many options for speaking and listening.

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