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  1. Songs for Children

    In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    There are four children’s songs that can be used for classroom activities, together with the pictures provided at the end of this issue.
  2. Lesson Plan: Quilting with Language

    In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This lesson plan contains four activities based on the cultural content of quilts. It includes activities for teaching vocabulary and grammar, speaking, writing, and a dicto-comp activity (in which there is both dictation and composition).
  3. Trees

    In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This is a thematic lesson plan for young learners about palm trees and the importance of taking care of them. The two part lesson teaches listening, reading and speaking skills. The lesson includes parts of a tree; the modal auxiliary, can; dialogues and a role play activity.
  4. Information Gap in Communicative Classrooms

    In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    The author argues that exchanges in the classroom must go beyond display questions and should be based on the information gap that occurs when one speaker does not know in advance what the other is going to say. The author provides examples of information gap activities to promote a communicative classroom. Activity types include practical situations, guessing games, role plays, opinion gap activities, and reasoning gap activities. The author argues that these activities have real communicative value.
  5. The Prisoner’s Dilemma – A Game of Decision-Making

    Format(s): Text, Website, Image / Poster / Maps
    How do people make Decisions? This game, presented by The National Science Foundation, is an example of decision science called “Game Theory”.
  6. The Conversation Class

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses conversation classes, drawing from the author’s experience teaching Persian ESL. The author offers eight guidelines for effective teaching: cultivate a relaxed atmosphere (with six suggestions for doing this), be alert and foster alertness, be enthusiastic and engender enthusiasm, be patient, be sensitive, think, listen, and make corrections. The article finishes with a number of suggested topics and activities for promoting conversation.
  7. Lesson Plan: Baseball Stories, Cards,and Interviews

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3 Format(s): Text
    This lesson plan offers an opportunity for students to practice their language skills and learn more about the sport of baseball. There are three activities (that will take at least one class period each) aimed at a variety of levels. Students create baseball cards of themselves and flash cards about the sport, and participate in interview role-plays as famous baseball players. Extension activities are included.
  8. Lesson Plan: Cultural Crossroads: Hawaii and Beyond

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 Format(s): Text
    This content-based lesson plan is about ethnic/cultural heritage and diversity in Hawaii. It also encourages students to explore their own cultures. The author includes four activities (listening and speaking, small group discussion, place-based group work, and role play). Ideas are also provided for multi-session lessons that encourage students to revise and communicate.
  9. Lesson Plan: Exploring Michigan

    In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 4 Format(s): Text
    The lesson plan “Exploring Michigan” provides information on things to see and do in Michigan. It has three parts: a warm-up, the main activities that cover the four skills, and follow-up activities to further practice the content of main activities. The lesson aims to practice expressions of preference and persuasion. At the same time, the learners plan things to do on a trip to Michigan while creating and presenting an itinerary for a trip to Michigan, and then for a visit to their own country.
  10. First Road to Learning: Language through Stories

    In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 2 Format(s): Text
    This article discusses the benefits of using stories in language teaching and ideas of how to use stories in the classroom. The authors believe that stories can help solve the problems caused by limited resources and are good ways to teach culture. They describe types of stories and how they can be used in teaching speaking, listening, reading, writing, integrated skills, and critical thinking.

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