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1. Conditionals & Infinity of Purpose: Life Aboard the Space Station

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

   In this week’s activity, students practice the second conditional with infinity of purpose in order to write a letter for a job. What job? Astronaut!

2. Adapting Songs for Beginning Learners

   In: Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels Format(s): Text

   During week 2 of this month’s Teacher’s Corner, learn a fun way to adapt a song activity for beginner-level students.

3. Week 4 - Teaching: The Best Job in the World

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Opportunities Format(s): Text

   This week, give students the chance to try out the best job in the world - teaching English! Students study an aspect of the English language and practice presenting.

4. Writing and Acting to Review

   In: Teacher's Corner: Using Art in the English Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we’ll show you how to combine a review lesson with the fun and creativity of writing and acting out short plays.

5. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

6. 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.

7. Week 3 - Conducting a Swot Analysis

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students work together to conduct an analysis of a company’s strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

8. Week 2 - Collaboration and Movement Using Four Corners

   Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner offers a lesson that uses Four Corners to promote collaboration and encourage movement to keep class lively and active. In groups, students will be assigned a grammar point and work together to prepare an activity to teach the grammar point to each other.

9. Teacher's Corner: Journalism

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we will explore the world of journalism and the job of reporters. Each week will provide students interesting and engaging opportunities to practice the basic skillset that all journalists have.

10. Photography in English Language Teaching: Engage, Inspire, Create, Learn

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

    This webinar, "Photograph in ELT: Engage, Inspire, Create, Learn," shows teachers how to harness students' access to their own cameras on their mobile phones and bring this technology with them right into the English language classroom.

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