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1. Fostering Student Motivation: Self-Directed Learning with the "Reading Train"

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

   This week’s teaching tip demonstrates how to use a combination of student choice, friendly competition, fun visuals, and rewards to motivate students to read more in English.

2. Week 1 - Phrasal Verb Quiz Game

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

   This week, try our Phrasal Verb Game in your classroom!

3. Week 2 - Vocabulary Building Strategies

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

   Vocabulary development is an important part of teaching English to beginners. Students not only need to learn new words, but they also need multiple opportunities to interact with the new vocabulary in order to recall and use the words independently.

4. Teacher's Corner: New Year, New Focus on Student-Centered Learning

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   You may have encountered the idea of “student-centered classrooms” and may even be interested in making your classroom more student-centered. In the first Teacher’s Corner for the new year, we learn about what makes a classroom “student-centered” and then look at six different ways to integrate student-centered learning into the English language classroom.

5. Regrets and Wishes of the Rich, Famous, or Fictional

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

   In this activity, students will practice or review using conditionals to express wishes and regrets about the past. This conditional form used in this situation is often called the past unreal conditional or the third conditional.

6. “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.

7. 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.

8. Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives

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   This month in the Teacher's Corner, we develop a solid understanding of comparative and superlative adjectives that will help EFL learners perform tasks involving these critical thinking skills while using English.

9. Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine the many forms information gaps can take, and we will explore several practical information gap variations that you can implement in classrooms of all levels.

10. Activities for the Present Progressive: "I'm Standing on a Corner"

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

    In this week’s activity, students practice the present progressive while asking for directions.

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