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1. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflection and Self-Assessment with "I Can" Checklists

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week's teaching tip illustrates how to use an objectives-based checklist that asks students to reflect on and assess their progress.

2. Prepositions of Location: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun Format(s): Text

   This week’s activity focuses on teaching prepositions through a virtual visit to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History!

3. Week 3 - House Party

   In: Teacher's Corner: Phrasal Verbs Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students will practice using phrasal verbs through listening and speaking activities related to having a party.

4. Week 3 - Technology for Content Creation: OBS

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores technology and how we can use it to enhance classroom practice.

5. Information Gaps: Graphic Organizers and Oral Clues

   In: Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities Format(s): Text

   This week’s activity is an information gap using schedules. Speaking English, students collaborate to reach a shared solution.

6. Adjective Clauses: Grace Hopper and the First Computer Languages

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun Format(s): Text

   With this week’s activity, students practice adjective clauses by learning about Grace Hopper, one of the first computer scientists!

7. World Wide Wiki

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner discusses how to use wikis for collaborative writing in the classroom. Students create their own world fact books with this activity!

8. Over-Tourism

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of travel and tourism. With travel becoming easier and cheaper all around the world, people who live in popular tourist locations have begun to ask if too much tourism can be a problem. In this week’s activity, students will debate the positives and negatives of tourism.

9. Teacher's Corner: Conditionals

   Format(s): Text

   This month we’ll take a closer look at some of the ways conditionals function and how we can provide students meaningful (and fun!) ways to practice using these grammatical forms.

10. Consciousness-Raising Task: Discovering Comparative Adjective Rules

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

    This week’s activity features a consciousness-raising (CR) task in which learners use example sentences containing the target form to discover general grammar rules about comparative adjectives.

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