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1. Poems About Places

   In: Teacher Resources Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!

2. Adapting a Reading for Advanced Learners to Focus on Vocabulary

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

   When adapting materials, some teachers might think only about how to make them more accessible for beginners or lower level students; however, materials can also be adapted to be more challenging to meet the needs of more advanced learners.

3. Poems About Places

   In: Poems About Places Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!

4. Poems About Places

   In: Poetry Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read the poems or download the PDFs.

5. Fantasy Politics

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner features a game that uses fun competition to get students excited about current affairs.

6. Teacher's Corner: Twitter for Educators

   Format(s): Text

   Twitter is an incredible resource for English language educators. This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to use Twitter to share ideas, find resources, and connect with other educators and language learners around the world. For those who are new to Twitter, we share how you can get started

7. Try This: Listening and Logic

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This section presents a stand-alone language-learning activity emphasizing listening, critical thinking, and teamwork, along with five ready-to-use examples.

8. On How Thinking Shapes Speaking: Techniques to Enhance Students’

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

   The institution where we work in Buenos Aires—Asociación Ex Alumnos del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” (AEXALEVI)—is devoted to the teaching of foreign languages, particularly English, and it administers examinations all over Argentina.

9. Teacher's Corner: Engaging English Language Learners with New Forms of Literacy

   Format(s): Text

   In the 21st century, our students have to know how to read and communicate using more than just words on paper or a computer screen. Communication takes many forms, and our classroom teaching will benefit by bringing in these new forms of communication. April’s Teacher’s Corner looks at several new literacies: instant messaging, comics and graphic novels, short-form videos, and podcasting. We explore what these forms are and how we can use them in the classroom to help students develop their language skills and to solve problems in an ever-changing world of communication.

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