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1. VOA Classroom Activities

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   Activities for learning and teaching Everyday English, Business English and Academic English.

2. Learn English Activity: Numbers, Months, Days, and Years

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   Learn your numbers, days, months and years with this activity. Level: beginner.

3. Learn English Activity: Small Talk

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   In this Business English activity learn about Small Talk.

4. Learn English Activity: Taking the TOEFL 101

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   TOEFL 101. Tips on taking the Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Learn about the test and tips on taking the TOEFL.

5. English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4

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   The final issue in the 50th anniversary series. Contributor articles discuss “The Teaching Toolbox,” online learner dictionaries, and getting teens to work in class...

6. The Teaching Toolbox: Reconciling Theory, Practice, and Language in a Teacher Training Course

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

   Noting the challenge teachers in English as a Medium of Instruction contexts face in balancing content and language instruction, the author explains a teaching toolbox technique and outlines toolbox activities that include jigsaw reading, word bank, jigsaw vocabulary, and graphic organizers.

7. Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning

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

   This article suggests that English language learners can benefit greatly from using learner dictionaries that are corpus-based, supply word frequency data, and offer collocation guides, authentic examples, and topical vocabulary. The author discusses teacher applications for each dictionary feature.

8. Getting Teens to Really Work in Class

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

   This article explains the brain development and behavior of teenagers as well as their special needs. The authors offer English language learning activities that meet the need for physical movement, social interaction, and reduced stress.

9. Teaching Communication: Back to the 60s

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

   This piece, a preface to a reprinted 1971 article on communication practice, focuses on the need for real communication in the language classroom.

10. Communication Practice vs. Pattern Practice or A Live Teacher Is Absolutely Necessary

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

    This article, originally published in 1971, posits that the main goal of language learning is communication and that classroom work should concentrate on developing students’ communication skills. Communication-practice drills are presented and discussed.

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