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1. 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.

2. Week 4 - Technology for Content Creation: Openshot

   In: Teacher's Corner: Technology Tools for Students and Teachers Format(s): Text

   In our final week on this month’s theme of technology, learn how to use free video editing software - Openshot!

3. 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.

4. Research to Practice: A Discussion Group for Language Teachers

   In: Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we present ways to support the professional development of English language teachers.

5. Universal Design as a Tool to promote inclusivity in the Language Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we talk about designing lessons and activities so that students of all abilities can participate and learn in ways that work best for them.

6. Try This: Luck of the Draw (Pragmatics)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity will allow students to practice using greetings by creating a brief skit.

7. Applied Theatre, Adolescent English Learners, and the Performance of Literacy

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

   Youth in middle and secondary grades, between childhood and the adult world, sometimes struggle with their identities as readers and learners. Too many describe themselves or are described by their teachers and parents as “reluctant, disengaged, and/or unmotivated” by classroom texts or by the rows of books in school libraries.

8. The Rio–Warsaw Connection: Encouraging Interculturalism among Students

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

   It all began in Norwich. As they do every year, teachers from different parts of the world went in July 2012 to that beautiful little city in the east of England to take part in one of the two-week professional development courses offered by the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE).

9. Vocabulary Listening Cloze and Word Stress Chart with "Into The Garden"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text

   This listening activity uses an audio clip from Zach Ladin's “Into the Garden,” a song from Sing Out Loud: American Rhythms.

10. Compare and Contrast Variations for Same and Different Cards

    In: Teacher's Corner: Comparatives and Superlatives - Adjectives Format(s): Text

    Our Teacher’s Corner this week encourages students to use comparative and superlative adjectives as they discuss groups of related items.

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