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1. Graphing Activity Student Survey

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article shows how a learner poll can become a graphing activity for students. The author gives the reasons for using graphing activities as well as instructions for warm-up activities, graphing, and follow-up activities for a unit on sports. The author also provides ideas for using graphs with other themes.

2. Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classrooms

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   There are many benefits to using project work in the classroom, such as student autonomy, increased content knowledge, and motivation. This article gives ten steps for structuring project activities to maximize these benefits, using a case study on project-based learning in an English preparatory program in Turkey. Also included are recommendations for writers on how to include project-based learning in their materials.

3. Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This

   Format(s): Text

   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

4. Trace Effects Manual- Chapter 6

   In: Trace Effects Teacher's Manual Format(s): Text

   The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State.

5. Trace Effects Manual - Chapter 7

   In: Trace Effects Teacher's Manual Format(s): Text

   The Trace Effects Teacher's Manual provides teachers a resource to learn how to teach English using Trace Effects, the exciting, collaborative English language learning game developed by the Department of State.

6. Word Bricks- Parts of Speech

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   In Part of Speech, teacher gives the players a specific pattern to use, and their sentences must follow this pattern. Students use Word Bricks to build sentences individually, in pairs, or in small groups. This activity is great for lower proficiency level students, as it provides scaffolding to help students generate a correct sentence.

7. Adapting Materials to Meet Your Classroom Needs

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar teaches useful techniques to successfully adapt materials for your classroom.

8. Enliven Your Class and Engage Your Students with Fun Facts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Stephen Mark Silvers enlivens this article with dozens of “fun facts” while also explaining how teachers can use such facts to motivate students and develop students’ English skills in creative ways. The author, who notes that students’ responses to the facts will be “authentic and meaningful,” provides a number of sources where teachers can find fun facts to use with their classes.

9. Create to Communicate: Collage

   In: Create to Communicate: Art Activities for the EFL Classroom Format(s): Text

   This section contains five lesson plans focusing on imperatives, present continuous, wh-questions, contrastive nouns, and future aspect using will focusing on high beginner to advanced proficiency levels.

10. Multi-Modal Writing: Promoting Digital Literacy in the English Language Classroom

    In: American English Webinars Format(s): MP3, Text

    This webinar discusses how multi-modal writing uses more than just words to communicate–it encourages students to use audio, video, photographs, and drawings to supplement their writing in meaningful ways.

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