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1. 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.’

2. Reading to Support Writing

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   This week, we explain how to integrate reading into the academic writing curriculum by teaching students to conduct close readings and make annotations of their sources.

3. Over-Tourism

   In: Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of travel and tourism. With travel becoming easier and cheaper all around the world, people who live in popular tourist locations have begun to ask if too much tourism can be a problem. In this week’s activity, students will debate the positives and negatives of tourism.

4. Classroom Activities

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

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to birds.

5. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone English language-learning activities related to horses.

6. Modal Verbs & Adverb Clauses of Reason: Stranded on the Moon

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun Format(s): Text

   What would you do if your spacecraft crashed on the moon? Students use modal verbs and adverb clauses and work as a team in this week’s fun activity.

7. Prepositions of Movement

   In: Teacher's Corner: Prepositions Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner includes a fun treasure hunt activity during which students practice prepositions of movement.

8. Incorporating Opportunities for Interaction and Sharing

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we examine some simple ways to incorporate movement and interaction into any lesson in the young learners’ English classroom.

9. The E-pet: Enhancing Motivation in E-portfolios

   In: English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The authors wanted to make EAP portfolios more engaging and personal for students, so they introduced an e-pet to accompany the online portfolio program. The e-pet (much like a tamagotchi) grows from an egg into adulthood when the students interact with it through portfolio submissions. Teachers reported that students were enthusiastic about the e-portfolio and the e-pet. Student questionnaires showed a similar trend, with several students saying that the e-pet made the portfolio project motivating. The article includes directions for e-portfolio design.

10. Superstitions

    In: Teacher's Corner: Conditionals Format(s): Text

    In this activity, students will examine superstition statements in English, will think about English equivalents for superstitions from their own culture, and will play a short guessing game related to superstitions.

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