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Micro and Macro discussions will take place in breakout rooms after reading "The Marble Crusher" by Michael Murpurgo chapters 3, 4 & 5.

The triggering point will be a thinking routine.

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Resource Description: This is a NEARPOD link to a lesson I developed to revise effect essay body paragraphs. It is suitable for use when teaching online or in class.

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Resource Description: This is a speaking activity for culturally diverse classes. The level of the activity is between A1-A2 (CEFR). However, teachers can adjust the activity considering their students' levels.
Students are required to prepare a short presentation about festivals, celebrations and special events in their country or culture. The activity can be held as a group or whole class activity. The target language is frequency adverbs and quantifiers, yet more complex structures can be used for upper levels.

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Resource Description: This lesson provides an opportunity for the students to use prewriting models to develop a topic into a paragraph including a proper topic sentence, supporting details and a concluding sentence.

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The test is designed for a flipped learning class for multicultural education. The article is about cultural differences. The students study the article on the webpage before the class and take notes about it. In class, the teacher delivers this test and students answer the questions. This assessment tool can also be used as an extensive reading activity. 

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This is a speaking activity for culturally diverse classes. The level of the activity is between A1 and A2 (CEFR). However, teachers can adjust the activity considering their students' levels.

Students are required to prepare a short presentation about the food culture in their country or culture. The activity can be held as a group or whole class activity. The target language is food containers and quantifiers, yet more complex structures can be used for upper levels.

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https://youtu.be/bYI5M2CMcZE

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This resource is prepared for A2 level students. Technology is integrated in every part of the lesson. The students will read a text about an ancient city and learn about its location, history and main features. Then they will be able to write and speak about an ancient city by giving details about its location, history, and main features, etc.

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https://youtu.be/1-N28JGQmz4

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Resource Description: This resource is prepared for A2 level students. Technology is integrated in every part of the lesson. The students will learn what a charity organization is and they will be able to write and speak about a charity event by giving details about time, venue, aim, etc. Before this lesson, teaching how to make, accept and decline requests is important. They will ask for a favor both in the speaking activity and in homework. 

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This teaching tip aims to guide EFL teachers to elicit and shape learner responses via asking contingent questions. By building on learner responses, L2 learners could develop their listenership and produce articulate, coherent, and socially engaged responses by answering contingent questions.  

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The resource is a step by step pronunciation exercise that can used in an online or f2f class to go over the word stress using a set of words that visualizes how the word stress functions in English.

For speakers of languages that are not stress timed, it can be hard to figure out how word stress works; thus I benefit from the visualizations with my classes (mainly L1 Turkish - a syllable timed language where the stress often falls on the last syllable- speakers).

 

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Resource Description: This is a sample lesson about the topic of flying. This task-supported plan follows the PPPP lesson plan format and it focuses on providing as much speaking opportunities for students as possible throughout all the stages.

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Resource Description: https://youtu.be/re_3hg-MXqs

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Resource Description: This teaching tip is provided for describing a concept, which is Classroom Interactional Competence, and its relevant principles to recommend it as a means to promote L2 interactions in online L2 classrooms. It is hoped that L2 teachers will benefit from this teaching tip and improve their teaching.  

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