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1. Story 16: Friki

   In: Why English? Comics for the Classroom Format(s): MP3, Text

   The stories in Why English? Comics for the Classroom – written by teenagers and young adults – will appeal to learners of all ages. These stories provide an enjoyable opportunity to increase vocabulary, reading comprehension, listening, speaking, and writing.

2. Audacity: Audio Recording Software

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine four types of technology that can help achieve classroom goals. Each tool is free to use. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at a free recording program, give step-by-step guidelines for using it, and suggest ways to create classroom materials with it.

3. 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.

4. Backward Design and Alignment of Assessments

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

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways to ensure your students have learned the target content. This week, we look at backward design of lesson planning.

5. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

6. Teacher's Corner: Prepositions

   Format(s): Text

   Prepositions can be tricky for English language learners. This week’s Teacher’s Corner introduces two activities during which students practice the prepositions in, at, and on.

7. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue.

8. Week 4 - Teaching: The Best Job in the World

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Opportunities Format(s): Text

   This week, give students the chance to try out the best job in the world - teaching English! Students study an aspect of the English language and practice presenting.

9. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below.

10. 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.

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