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1. Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Progress testing is often neglected in communicative language teaching; yet it has a crucial role. This article, originally published in 1995, offers a rationale for testing and presents guidelines for designing app

2. Audio-Lingual Method

   In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

   This unit of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores the Audio-Lingual Method.

3. Comprehension Approach/TPR

   In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

   This method of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores the Comprehension Approach/TPR (Total Physical Response).

4. Board Game: Name 3

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games Format(s): Text

   The board game Name 3… gives students a variety of prompts to talk about things they know about.

5. Teaching with Jazz Chants

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Video

   This webinar "Teaching with Jazz Chants" demonstrates how to use Jazz Chants in the classroom.

6. Board Games

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English Format(s): Text

   The board games in 'Activate: Games for Learning American English' show the paths that the players must follow and the English phrases that the players must produce orally. Each board game has a theme that requires the students to produce certain types of expressions, so they practice a variety of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and functional meanings.

7. Picture This

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English Format(s): Text

   Activate: Games for Learning American English is a collection of games for the language classroom. The games in Activate offer interactive English language practice in a learner-centered, low-stress environment. Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

8. Boats, Boats Everywhere

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Boats are the subject of this feature article, which explores such topics as the age of steamboats, commercial boats, recreational boats, boating vocabulary, and the Mississippi River in American literature.

9. Trace Effects Teacher's Manual

   Format(s): Text

   This Trace Effects manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks.

10. Picture This – Pass It On

    In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

    In Pass It On, students use the vocabulary words on a Picture This card to create a story. Download cards and instructions.

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