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1. Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This session, "Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software," introduced several communicative EFL activities for instructional sessions conducted via video-based online meeting software.

2. Health and Fitness

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The theme of health offers a variety of language-learning possibilities. This three-part lesson plan for young learners can be adapted to other audiences. It includes a reading, a dialogue, and a listening script. The first lesson asks learners to analyze lifestyle choices and give advice. The second lesson takes students to a sporting goods store, where they consider the language they need to talk with a sales clerk. The third lesson is about food choices, including ways to prepare foods. A follow-up activity researches how a famous athlete stays healthy.

3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Kid’s Page

   Format(s): Website

   Explore and learn about fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats and how you can help conserve, protect, and enhance them.

4. Smithsonian History and Culture

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Lesson plans and resources for teaching and learning about American culture, art, and history.

5. Lesson Plans Related to Art and Design

   Format(s): Text, Website

   From the Smithsonian, lesson plans and resources for teaching and learning about American culture, art, history, and other topics.

6. An Integrated Skills Lesson Plan for "Maps and Legends" by Michael Chabon

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 2 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan is based on the article “Maps and Legends” by novelist Michael Chabon and is for high intermediate to advance students. The lesson includes group and pair work. Students discuss the neighborhood where they grew up. They read the text and identify unfamiliar words, then answer comprehension questions in writing or discussion groups. Post-reading activities include scanning, inferring meaning from context, dictionary practice, and discussion questions. The lesson ends with questions to make connections beyond the text and project ideas.

7. Amplifying Voice and Choice in the EFL Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, “Amplifying Voice and Choice in the EFL Classroom,” explained several student voice strategies, and will prepare participants to select or adapt the strategies to suit their teaching contexts, students, and teaching styles!

8. The Mystery Bag: Listening and Speaking Skills for Young Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a fun guessing game that involves objects in a “mystery bag” and gives learners practice with vocabulary and with asking and answering questions.

9. Earth Day and Arbor Day

   In: Celebrate! Holidays in the U.S.A. Format(s): Text

   Both Arbor Day and Earth Day focus on the environment.

10. Natural and Cultural Resources in the USA

    Format(s): Website

    This site provides teachers’ resources, kids’ resources, an interior library and an interior museum.

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