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1. Rapport-Building Activity

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This engaging activity gives students a chance to use playdough in a creative way in order to express themselves, practice using English, and build rapport with their peers and the teacher.

2. My Classroom: India

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article profiles the teaching context at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and describes how educator Santosh Kumar Mahapatra develops creative lessons to motivate his students to learn and achieve success both in and out of the classroom.

3. Try This: Go for the Grit!

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This step-by-step activity teaches students the meaning and importance of grit and provides two case studies that are ready to use in the classroom.

4. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle is called Mountain Climbing, with clues for words that give encouragement to people climbing a mountain or taking on other difficult challenges.

5. Week 3 - Scaffolding Part One: Questions and Responses

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

   Asking the right questions is an essential skill teachers need to help beginners succeed. This week, learn how!

6. Week 4: Scaffolding Part Two: Supporting Language Production

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

   Sometimes the only opportunity our students have to use the language they are learning is when they are in the language classroom.

7. Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we present a series of activities that help to develop students’ critical thinking and media literacy skills. This week, learn how to help students think about commonly used news sources and characteristics of high-quality news.

8. Week 1 - Thinking Critically about News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner will focus on starting a discussion in your classroom about the importance of thinking critically about the news.

9. Week 2 - Observing News Media

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week, help students to generate observation questions to collect information about news sources.

10. Empowering Your Students with Media Literacy

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

    This webinar, "Empowering Your Students with Media Literacy," explores activities that help students ask key questions about the messages found in news and social media.

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