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1. Fostering Student Motivation: Self-Directed Learning with the "Reading Train"

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   This week’s teaching tip demonstrates how to use a combination of student choice, friendly competition, fun visuals, and rewards to motivate students to read more in English.

2. Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner looks at ways to make grammar fun by teaching it in context.

3. Prepositions of Location: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

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   This week’s activity focuses on teaching prepositions through a virtual visit to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History!

4. Adjective Clauses: Grace Hopper and the First Computer Languages

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   With this week’s activity, students practice adjective clauses by learning about Grace Hopper, one of the first computer scientists!

5. Conditionals & Infinity of Purpose: Life Aboard the Space Station

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   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!

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

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   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.

7. Teacher's Corner: Making Learning Fun

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   In the January Teacher’s Corner, we will look at ways to make learning fun, accessible, and meaningful in the English language classroom. Each week, we will present a fun and engaging activity that focuses on one domain of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, or writing.

8. Making Listening Fun

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   Listening is an important skill for English language learners to master. This week’s Teacher’s Corner will look at some easy ideas to make listening activities fun!

9. Making Speaking Fun

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   Get students talking with these fun speaking activities in this week’s Teacher’s Corner!

10. Making Reading Fun

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    In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we look at a fun reading activity that can be adapted for different reading levels.

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