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1. The Lighter Side: "Bird Logic"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle invites users to compare bird facts and use logic to determine the secret numbers assigned to ten birds.

2. Guess What? - Yes, No, Maybe!

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In Yes, No, Maybe!, the Describer tells the Guessers the topic on the card and the Guessers must ask yes or no questions until they discover what the words on the Guess What? card are.

3. Integrating Environmental Education into a Genre-Based EFL Writing Class

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article offers practical ways to integrate environmental education into English language teaching by using the genre-based approach to teaching writing. The authors present a four-stage process for each of three types of writing—descriptive, narrative, and procedure—focusing the content of each type of writing on the environment.

4. The Prisoner’s Dilemma – A Game of Decision-Making

   Format(s): Text, Website, Image / Poster / Maps

   How do people make Decisions? This game, presented by The National Science Foundation, is an example of decision science called “Game Theory”.

5. "This American English Class”: A New Model of Cultural Instruction

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a cultural-instruction model and provides clear examples of how to apply it in class.

6. Thousand-Word Pictures 

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This step-by-step guide shows how teachers can use pictures to help students develop language skills and cultural awareness. 

7. A Collaborative Activity for Generating Ideas in the Writing Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a procedure that gets students to collaborate, generate ideas for an essay project, and reflect on their ideas as they prepare to write; the author also suggests a number of possible essay topics.

8. Practical Applications of TESOL’s The 6 Principles of Exemplary Teaching of English Learners

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article presents TESOL’s “6 Principles” and suggests a variety of ways that teachers in almost any country or context can incorporate the principles.

9. The Lighter Side: Fifty, More or Less

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle commemorates the 50th anniversary of the English Language Fellow Program and lets readers test their knowledge of whether each clue refers to something that is more than 50, less than 50, or exactly 50.

10. Pairing in EFL Classes

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

    This article presents a number of language-based suggestions for pairing students so that over time they get to work with a variety of classmates and build relationships with peers.

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