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1. Information Gaps: Mingle Activities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Speaking - Information Gap Activities Format(s): Text

   A mingle activity is another variation of an information gap activity. This week’s Teacher’s Corner outlines an excellent student-centered, communicative mingle activity to use in your classroom.

2. More Prepositions of Time: For, While, During, and Since

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

   Use the fun activities in this week’s Teacher’s Corner to get students to practice using the prepositions for, while, during, and since to talk about time.

3. Week 2 - Simple and Phrasal Modals

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

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students use simple and phrasal modals in new and engaging ways.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Strategy-Building and Meaning-Focused Listening with “The Fall of the House of Usher”

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

   The activity is designed to develop students’ listening strategies and also includes meaning-focused aspects. 

7. Consciousness-Raising Task: Discovering Comparative Adjective Rules

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

   This week’s activity features a consciousness-raising (CR) task in which learners use example sentences containing the target form to discover general grammar rules about comparative adjectives.

8. Week 2 - Current Events: Regional Reporters

   In: Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens Format(s): Text

   After her life-changing experience on the 2012 IVLP, A New Beginning: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, Riham Awad started a volunteer mentor program that is creating a wave of young entrepreneurs in Egypt.

9. Webinars: Grammar & Vocabulary

   Format(s): Text

   Webinars about teaching grammar and vocabulary.

10. Internet TESL Journal (iTESL-j)

    Format(s): Website

    This website is an online resource for teachers who can refer to our published articles on teaching techniques and other things of interest to EFL and ESL teachers. Articles and lesson ideas are indexed and searchable.

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