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1. Story 20: A Lucky Guy

   In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): MP3, Text

   The stories in Why English? Comics for the Classroom – written by teenagers and young adults – will appeal to learners of all ages. These stories provide an enjoyable opportunity to increase vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening, speaking, and writing.

2. The President's Schedule: The President will be attending a meeting

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the future progressive while asking and answering questions regarding a president’s upcoming visit to their country.

3. English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3

   Format(s): Text

   Read this issue to learn how to build grit, give clear instructions, and make service learning work for you, your students, and your community.

4. English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   Find new ways to teach lexical cohesion, learn how to promote self-authoring, discover “Pair counting,” and get other useful teaching ideas in the final issue of 2017.

5. Business Vocabulary

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Vocabulary Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we highlight vocabulary that students can use in the workplace to sound more dynamic and professional.

6. Creating a Visually Rich Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners Format(s): Text

   This week in the Teacher’s Corner, we present ideas for using visual support in the English language classroom for young learners.

7. English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 1

   Format(s): Text

   Starting off the year of the American City, New York City is Forum’s first stop and the subject of this issue’s feature article. Accompanying the article is a lesson plan entitled “Exploring New York City.” Other topics in this issue include the progression of the field of TESOL, language awareness, applying reading research to lesson plan development, suggestions for academic writing instruction, and using anecdotes in language classes.

8. English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4

   Format(s): Text

   Chicago is the focus of the feature article and the basis of a lesson plan that provides practice in writing and reading postcards. This issue also includes articles on enhancing learning with mobile phone technology, VoIM-mediated cooperative tasks, and corpus-aided discovery. Additional articles discuss critical media literacy and ideas for incorporating an intercultural approach into EFL teaching.

9. English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 3

   Format(s): Text

   This issue rounds up articles with a number of teaching ideas. Features include the uniquely American sport of rodeo and an integrated skills lesson plan for "Just off Main Street" by Elmaz Abinader. Other articles explore the areas of critical thinking, writing for extensive reading, developing pragmatic competence, teacher assessment, and keeping discipline in the classroom.

10. Empowering Teachers through Professional Development

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This article promotes professional development for teachers. Connection to a community of teachers and greater motivation and achievement of students are just a few benefits of learning new skills, resources, and techniques. The author describes low-cost development opportunities, from individual tasks such as reading articles and keeping a journal, to collaborative techniques such as peer mentoring/coaching, forming a teacher support group, or joining a national organization.

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