Resource Description: Class starters (warm-ups, do nows) are a great way to engage students at the beginning of a class. These starter questions are written for the online classroom. These starters encourage students to share their thoughts, have fun, and practice English.

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Resource Description: This is a jigsaw approach to peer review used in my rhetoric and research class (EAP 1900). Students are required to conduct peer review at least once during the drafting stages of each major project. This activity has been applied to research proposals, bibliographies, argumentative essays, reflective essays, and presentations. I am including the prompt and a sample rotation manual for illustration. 

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Resource Description: This is a lesson from my EAP 1500 course (College Composition for International Students). Students were in the process of developing a film analysis, based on a movie they summarized in the previous unit.

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Resource Description: This lesson plan uses the approach suggested by Celce-Murcia et al. (2016) for teaching pronunciation. It starts from presentation, and moves through controlled practice, then to communicative practice. It revolves around the topic of 'healthy eating habits'. Part of the information in the lesson is taken from the website of the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet )

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Resource Description: The aim of the lesson plan is to provide a sample that will help ELT teachers to get guidance about the use of technology in the language teaching/learning process. As a teacher, you may want to supplement your classroom teaching with technology and online materials, so this lesson will provide you with the basics of technology usage in English language classroom.

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Resource Description: This lesson plan provides information about the technology used for developing listening skills. The tools and applications discussed here work very well in developing the listening skills of English learners.  

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This activity enhances imagination and conception of new ideas and enables the learners to speak on other than ordinary situations.

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Resource Description: This reading provides suggestions for using The Terminal, a romantic comedy movie starring Tom Hanks, as a means of demonstrating to ELL Teachers some of the challenges their ELL students face and L2 acquisition skills ELLs employ.

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Resource Description: This 14.5-minute multi-media video explores features found in the Starbucks retail environment and corporate culture.

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This activity is a combination of ‘letter writing’ and ‘visualization of information.’ To cope with large-size class and time limit, the traditional ‘series of letters’ has been replaced with a ‘postcard exchange.’

The activity can be useful as a revision, assessment, and feedback technique for any topic taught in the previous class. In this specific case here, the technique is applied to practice ‘sequencing paragraph’ that students learned in their last lesson.

In the activity, students will be exchanging postcards to share subject matter of their previous class in shape of a sequencing paragraph, and receive peer review through a feedback card.

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Resource Description: This lesson plan specifically focuses on writing skill of ESL learners. Students will reinforce their essay writing skills by exploring how to present convincing reasons behind a certain event in their texts.

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Resource Description: This lesson plan specifically focuses on writing skill of ESL learners. Students will reinforce their essay writing skills by exploring how to present convincing reasons behind a certain event in their texts.

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Resource Description: This activity allows students to collaborate with each other while constructing a tower with their team. Then, they have time to reflect on the activity. 

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Resource Description: This activity presents an example of a language lesson that uses public social networks.

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Resource Description: In this virtual seminar, we will explore how language teachers can enhance student learning in their classrooms through action research. We will discuss the eleven steps for conducting Applicable Collaborative, and Empowering (ACE) action research, reflecting upon & taking action to improve your pedagogical practices in your language classroom. There will be tips, approaches, and hands-on activities, as well as opportunities for discussion and Q&A.

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Resource Description: In this interactive webinar, the authors of The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners: Adult Education and Workforce Development explore ways that the 6 principles can guide effective instruction when working with adult English learners. The authors describe practical strategies, including examples from classrooms. They also explore how to apply principles 1 and 2 to support special populations in different contexts as well as ways to collaborate with colleagues around the 6 principles. Bring your questions.

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Resource Description: Just Vocabulary is a daily 5 minute (audio) podcast aimed at growing your English vocabulary. 
The JustVocabulary podcast is a daily ESL (English as a Second Language) podcast for learners at an intermediate to advanced level from all around the world. The 5-minute audio podcast is aimed at growing your English vocabulary, and it focuses on SAT and GRE vocabulary. The goal is to improve and increase your English vocabulary, and help you with English tests like GRE, SAT, TOEIC, TOEFL, and IELTS. To enhance your learning, you can also access our vocabulary flashcard modules.
The English language has a very large vocabulary, and the goal of the podcast is to share with the listeners the English words that I found whilst reading, listening to audiobooks, watching movies, etc.

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Resource Description: This resource will share strategies and techniques on handling and managing classroom issues at all levels.

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This lesson is part of an ESP course designed for chauffeurs of a multinational organization with international footprints. The course is designed after conducting the needs analysis. The purpose of the course is to enable them to converse and communicate in English. So the employees can interact with their peers, foreigners and local officials, greet and guide somebody, give details about themselves, their locations and nationalities, demonstrate politeness in their speech, and comprehend the target language proficiently. 

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