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1. Your Most Essential Audiovisual Aid - Yourself!

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Acknowledging that an interested and enthusiastic teacher can create excitement for students and promote learning, this article (reprinted from 1981) offers concrete suggestions for the teacher to be a “visual aid” and an “audio aid” in the classroom.

2. The Neglected Tools Can Work for You

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article (reprinted from 1975) offers ideas about using visual aids in the language classroom and includes specific suggestions for using such things as blackboards, flip charts, magazines, and language films.

3. Getting the Most Out of the Dictionary

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Inspired by questions from language teachers, this discussion of dictionaries (reprinted from 1974) explores their utility in determining pronunciation, meaning, and points of grammar and makes recommendations about the kind of dictionaries teachers should use with their students.

4. The Lighter Side: "Listen Up!"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet presents a listening exercise based on rhymes.

5. Lessons in Life

   In: American Rhythms Format(s): MP3, Text

   "Lessons in Life" by Bridgette Bryant and Daniel Ho is a song from the American Rhythms album. Download or listen online.

6. Language Teaching Methods

   Format(s): Text, Video

   Language Teaching Methods is a video-based teacher-training series with an accompanying teacher-training guide.

7. Helping Metaphors Take Root in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article explores why metaphors challenge learners and presents ways to incorporate metaphors into EFL instruction to help learners understand figurative speech.

8. Laughing All the Way: Teaching English Using Puns

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article describes four categories of English puns—soundalike puns, lookalike puns, close-sounding puns, and texting puns—and suggests how they can be incorporated into English language classrooms.

9. Trains across the USA

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This feature article explores the topic of trains from their early history to recent trends in railroading.

10. The Lighter Side: Train of Thought

    In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This activity sheet focuses on phrasal verbs in a context of train rides.

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