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1. “What would you do if…?” Making Plans to Deal with Difficult Situations

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

   In this activity, students will practice or review how to use conditionals to discuss plans to get out of tricky situations. This conditional form used for this language function is called the unreal future conditional or the second conditional.

2. Cops and Robbers: "We Were Watching a Movie at the Movie Theater"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the past progressive during a role play in order to solve a crime.

3. Progressive Tense: "He is Looking for Emma Fields"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive

4. Activity for Progressive Tense Review: He is looking for Emma Fields

   Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive.

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. Prepositions of Time: In, At, and On

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

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner introduces two activities during which students practice the prepositions in, at, and on.

7. Week 4 - Math: Thinking Logically

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

   In our final week of our STEM Teacher’s Corner series, students use both language and math skills to solve logic puzzles.

8. Teacher's Corner: Modals

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner we explore interactive ways to have your students practice using modals correctly in the classroom.

9. Week 4 - Breaking the Ice With Modals

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

   Icebreaker activities are great ways to get students talking. Icebreakers are even better when students are both talking and practicing a specific language skill or component.

10. Week 2 - Technology for Writing

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

    Teachers using technology in the classroom have many options for speaking and listening.

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