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1. Summative Assessments and Aligning Activities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Collecting and Using Data Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on options for summative assessment activities and rubrics.

2. Week 1 - Routines for Everyday Language

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

   This week, learn to establish routines to help beginners feel comfortable right from the start.

3. Using Authentic Materials to Develop Vocabulary

   In: Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials Format(s): Text

   This week will present ideas about how to use authentic materials to develop students’ English vocabulary through exposure to and interaction with new words.

4. Regrets and Wishes of the Rich, Famous, or Fictional

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

   In this activity, students will practice or review using conditionals to express wishes and regrets about the past. This conditional form used in this situation is often called the past unreal conditional or the third conditional.

5. “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.

6. Superstitions

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

   In this activity, students will examine superstition statements in English, will think about English equivalents for superstitions from their own culture, and will play a short guessing game related to superstitions.

7. Total Physical Response (TPR) and Miming with "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Listening Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This meaning-focused listening activity uses the song “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” from Sing Out Loud-Children’s Songs.

8. 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!

9. Modal Verbs & Adverb Clauses of Reason: Stranded on the Moon

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

   What would you do if your spacecraft crashed on the moon? Students use modal verbs and adverb clauses and work as a team in this week’s fun activity.

10. 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.

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