Site Search

1. Teaching Techniques: Nouns on the Job Market - An Approach for Recognizing Noun Position

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Using the employment analogy provides a fun and memorable way to help students relate to this sentence-level grammatical concept.

2. How Many Words is a Picture Worth?

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” indicates that a complex idea can be communicated by a single image.

3. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone language-learning activities for different level classrooms. The interactive activities focus on skills that familiarize students with simple sentence structures, present tense, grammar review through group work and games, a vocabulary review, and an activity to help students understand the concept of metaphors and use them in their writing.

4. Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual

   Format(s): Text

   Bright Ideas: A Teacher’s Resource Manual offers twenty-six practical teaching strategies and techniques that originally appeared in Ideas Plus, a special series of publications produced by the National Council of Teachers of English.

5. Classroom Activities

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

   This "Classroom Activities" features three stand-alone language-learning activity related to the theme of summer.

6. Random or Intentional? Putting Learners in Groups that Work

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

   This session, “Random or Intentional? Putting Learners in Groups that Work,” helps participants reflect on and share the different types of EFL group work activities they use as well as the methods they use to create small groups. The session will also explore three grouping strategy categories and will review several fun, creative techniques for establishing effective groups.

7. Teacher's Corner: New Year, New Focus on Student-Centered Learning

   Format(s): Text

   You may have encountered the idea of “student-centered classrooms” and may even be interested in making your classroom more student-centered. In the first Teacher’s Corner for the new year, we learn about what makes a classroom “student-centered” and then look at six different ways to integrate student-centered learning into the English language classroom.

8. Practicing Irregular Forms with the "Which One Would the World be Better Without? Why?" Board Game

   In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner activity uses an Activate board game. The game creates opportunities for students to use the irregular comparative and superlative forms for ‘good’ and ‘bad.’

9. Week 1 - Science: Protecting the Environment

   In: Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Format(s): Text

   Part of the growing interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education has been the push to make science and math more interesting and hands-on for students.

10. Activity 4 - Peer Assessments

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

    This week in the Teacher’s Corner, we examine the value of peer assessments in the English language classroom and offer several ways for teachers to use peer assessments in the classroom regardless of content or skill.

Pages