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1. Folger Shakespeare Library

   Format(s): Website

   Home to the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials and to major collections of other rare Renaissance books, manuscripts, and works of art, the Folger serves a wide audience of researchers, visitors, teachers, students, families, and theater- and concert-goers.

2. Picture This

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes. Picture This cards stimulate conversation through a series of thematically related questions and interesting images that engage students.

3. Picture This – Guess Which Challenge

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   In Guess Which Challenge, students create sentences that use one of the words on a Picture This card.

4. Total Physical Response (TPR) and Miming with "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This meaning-focused listening activity uses the song “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” from Sing Out Loud-Children’s Songs.

5. 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.

6. Podcasting in the Classroom

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

   This webinar explores an alternative solution to the challenge of providing students enough speaking and listening time in the class.

7. Picture This – Same & Different

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Same & Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background knowledge about the items on the 'Picture This' cards to create descriptions that compare and contrast two items on a card.

8. Picture This – Questions Quiz

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   Students practice creating questions that contain very specific information about one item from a Picture This card, so that there is only one correct answer to the question.

9. EPA Teacher and Learner Resource Center

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   Looking for ways to teach about the environment to your English language learners? Check out these 12 lesson plans from the Environmental Protection Agency. There are 4 lessons for each level – beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

10. The Lighter Side

    In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    This activity has students fill in the blanks of a sentence with two words that sound the same but are spelled differently with different meanings (heterographs).

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