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1. 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.

2. Activity for Progressive Tense Review: He is looking for Emma Fields

   Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive.

3. Video Games: The New Media Literacy

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. This week’s Teacher’s Corner, focuses on several video games that can be used in the classroom. Engage your students and help them learn with these free videogames.

4. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

5. Photography Exhibition

   In: Teacher's Corner: Using Art in the English Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   Bring the museum to your classroom! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students create a photography exhibition to reinforce language learned in the classroom.

6. Gossip and Rumors

   In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a variation of the game “True Truths and a Lie” to help students practice reported speech while they learn more about their classmates.

7. Activity 1 - Exit Tickets

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on making and designing meaningful assessments to use in the English language classroom. This week, we show you an easy way to check in on your students’ learning and progress using “exit tickets.”

8. Writing Check with the Academic Word List

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   When English language learners in academic settings focus attention on wordlists, such as AWL (the Academic Word List), they have an opportunity to expand vocabulary. In this week’s activity, students will use the AWL to check and revise their own written work.

9. Trend 1 - 21st Century Skills

   In: Teacher's Corner: Education Trends and Issues in the World Today Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we will explore four educational approaches that are working toward a more complete use of Bloom’s Taxonomy in the classroom. These approaches are designed to provide students more opportunities to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create in the classroom.

10. Week 1 - Grid Games

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

    This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we present games you can use with your students to make learning grammar fun. In this week’s activity, we present a great way to review subject-verb agreement.

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