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1. Try This: The Great Mini-Debate

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Debates remain popular in English language courses, and this activity gives students a low-stress opportunity to develop their speaking debating skills; seven debate themes, with suggested topics, are provided.

2. My Classroom: India

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article profiles the teaching context at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and describes how educator Santosh Kumar Mahapatra develops creative lessons to motivate his students to learn and achieve success both in and out of the classroom.

3. Strategic Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom

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

   This session, “Strategic Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom,” examines how teachers can thoughtfully select and apply corrective feedback techniques that can help students produce more accurate language output.

4. Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking

   Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking," shares classroom-ready activities that can be adapted to encourage critical thinking in reading lessons for students of varying ages and proficiency levels.

5. Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking

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

   This session, "Four Reading Tasks to Promote Critical Thinking," shares classroom-ready activities that can be adapted to encourage critical thinking in reading lessons for students of varying ages and proficiency levels.

6. The Lighter Side: Two Activate Games Puzzles

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   These two puzzles are based on new Activate games found in this issue of English Teaching Forum (Volume 62, Number 1), but the game boards are not necessary for solving the puzzles: (a) unscrambling a board-games conversation between two students and (b) using logic to find out which games four friends played. Can you solve both?

7. Insert: Four New Activate Board Games

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1 Format(s): Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This issue includes a unique bonus: four completely new Activate board games that you and your students can begin playing immediately. The directions may be self-explanatory, but detailed instructions and tips can be found in the article “Let Them Play: Board Games for Language Practice,” also in this issue.

8. Abstracts from Other Journals

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   In “EAP Issues and Directions,” Ken Hyland and Liz Hamp-Lyons consider elements EAP researchers and teachers face. The challenges and academic needs of EAP, for both students and teachers, are addressed, along with solutions to those challenges. Teaching writing within the legal profession when the student is also an ESL/EFL student is the main topic of “Developing Legal Writing Materials for English Second Language Learners: Problems and Perspectives” by C. N. Candlin, V. K. Bhatia, and C. H. Jensen. The article includes an analysis of textbooks and suggested customized resources.

9. 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.

10. Lesson Plan: Baseball Stories, Cards,and Interviews

    In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This lesson plan offers an opportunity for students to practice their language skills and learn more about the sport of baseball. There are three activities (that will take at least one class period each) aimed at a variety of levels. Students create baseball cards of themselves and flash cards about the sport, and participate in interview role-plays as famous baseball players. Extension activities are included.

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