I’m republishing my best posts from the first half of the year. You can see the entire list of them here.
For several years, ending about seven years ago, I wrote a weekly column for The NY Times Learning Network providing teaching resources for educators of English Language Learners. Most also included an interactive for students.
You can see links to, and descriptions of, each one of them at All My NY Times Posts For English Learners – Linked With Descriptions.
After I stopped writing them, they obviously continued on the site and have been very popular with ELL teachers. They have tons of teaching ideas with downloadables and useful links.
However, the software powering the interactives became obsolete and, like many of the older interactives throughout the NY Times site, they stopped working several years ago.
Fast forward to today, when I learned The Times had added technology to resurrect most of their old interactives!
I went back to check my old posts and, though probably twenty of the oldest ones haven’t come back to life (at least, yet), about fifty of the more recent ones seem to work fine!
At my post, where I list them all, you can find the working ones at the top fifty or so posts. I indicate where they stop working.
I think they’re great to use as warm-ups – they can be displayed on a screen and students can answer the questions on mini-whiteboards.