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1. 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.

2. Week 2 - Technology: Coding – A Language For the Future

   In: Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice the 21st-century skill of coding while developing reading and listening skills.

3. Week 1 - Thinking Critically about News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner will focus on starting a discussion in your classroom about the importance of thinking critically about the news.

4. Week 1 - Unique Jobs

   In: Teacher's Corner: Gerunds and Infinitives Format(s): Text

   This week we begin the month with an activity focused on unique jobs that uses infinitives in the verb phrases like to, want to, need to, and hope to.

5. What To See in Town

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner provides students with the opportunity to practice using phrasal verbs in an activity about New York City.

6. Teacher's Corner: Visual Note-Taking

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   Our students live in a world of videos and photos, logos and emojis, abbreviations and instant messages.

7. Teacher's Corner: Comic Books for Learning

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   Comic books are a pleasure to read, but they can also be a great resource in the English classroom!

8. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Grammar for Communicative Competence

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   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

9. Teaching Techniques: Teaching Descriptive Writing through Visualization and the Five Senses

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This technique could be useful for teachers in a variety of EFL teaching contexts, from primary school to university, and can be used with a wide range of texts that are particularly vivid and that stimulate the senses.

10. Fully Online Courses

    In: Teacher's Corner: Online Learning Format(s): Text

    This week’s Teacher’s Corner highlights a few options we can use to work with students in the online learning space. We will discuss options for MOOCs (massive open online courses) and for building your own online courses.

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