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52
According to its authors, Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings, this is an activity book for language teachers unlike any you have ever seen. 52 asks the question: can one new teaching idea per week make a difference? The authors use radical texts, subversive images and lateral thinking to suggest new ways of doing things inside the classroom and to prompt teachers and learners to think differently about the world outside the classroom.
The eBook contains 52 activities that fit loosely into the following categories: disruptions, discussions, images, language, action, and scenarios.
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Publisher: The Round
ASIN: B0074K1US0
The Story of English in 100 Words
In this new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape English since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering).
Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and','what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.
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Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781846684272
Teacher Training Essentials
Teacher Training Essentials by Craig Thane is a book of ready-to-use teacher training workshops, designed to provide a bank of planned and structured sessions with accompanying photocopiable worksheets.
The sessions develop trainees' and teachers' knowledge of three key areas: methodology, language and theory, and encourage them to actively reflect on their own prior learning and experience.
The activities are suitable for a range of teaching experience, and are labelled according to whether they are suitable for pre-service, early in-service or experienced teachers. Sounds interesting? Then follow this link to find out more.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521172240
Using Phrasal Verbs for Natural English
Delta Natural English is a series of language practice books for students who aspire to use natural, fluent English. Understanding and using phrasal verbs is an essential part of this development. Using Phrasal Verbs for Natural English by Elizabeth Walter and Kate Woodford not only helps learners to understand phrasal verbs, but also helps them learn when and how to use phrasal verbs successfully, to produce more natural-sounding English. Suitable for self-study or classroom use, the book teaches students over 400 commonly used phrasal verbs and comes with a CD.
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Publisher: Delta Publishing
ISBN: 9781905085538
Thinking in the EFL Class
'In our work in the EFL class, teachers and students do lots of thinking. We are involved in understanding or explaining concepts, noticing
similarities and differences, looking for patterns, committing to
memory and endeavouring to achieve fast recall.'
Thinking in the EFL Class by Tessa Woodward offers over 30 realistic tips for teachers and over 85 practical, easy-to-use activities for language classes. The book is designed to help teachers stay interested in their work and help students cope with the demands of learning a language and living in a restless, changeable world. Available from the end of September.
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Publisher: Helbling Languages
ISBN: 978-3-85272-333-4
Digital Play
Digital Play is a new book on the use of computer games in language teaching. Authors Kyle Mawer and Graham Stanley are experts in teaching with technology and training teachers in innovative classroom practice. This book shares their excitement and experience.
Digital Play is the latest title in Delta Publishing's Teacher Development Series. The book examines the role of computer games in society, in education in general and in language teaching in particular. It gives advice on how to bring the world of gaming into the classroom, and includes a bank of activities showing how to use digital play in the classroom, with step-by-step instructions.
Subscribers can read an interview with Kyle and Graham in our Coffee with... section.
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Publisher: Delta Publishing
ISBN: 9781905085552
English through art
This book, which is part of Helbling's Resourceful Teacher series, originated at Art in ELT, a writing workshop held at
the 2009 IATEFL Conference in Cardiff which was held in the City Hall
and the National Museum and Gallery.
The 100 activities contained in the book were written by a team of seven writers - Hania Bociek, Peter Grundy, Chris Lima, Luke Meddings, Kevin Parker, Emma Riordan and Stella Smyth.
As the authors point out in the introduction, art is perhaps the most under-used resource in language teaching in spite of the fact that art and design are everywhere around us. The objective of the book is to help the teacher create lessons that encourage students to be imaginative and that will live long in their memories.
No prior knowledge of art or artists is required to use the activities which are presented in a clear easy-to-use format. Activities that require the use of images include suggestions of which images to use. Fifty reproductions are included in an image bank at the back of the book and on a CD-ROM, allowing teachers to project them onto a whiteboard. All the images are from the National Museum and Gallery in Cardiff, the place where the project started.
The activities in English Through Art are grouped in chapters and can easily be adapted and used for different levels, from elementary to advanced, with teenagers, young adults and adults, in EFL/ESL, CLIL and Art and Design classes and for individual, small group and whole class work.
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Publisher: Helbling
Languages
ISBN: 9783852722887
Rhymes and Rhythm
Rhymes and Rhythm provides targeted pronunciation and listening practice through the medium of verse. Featuring lively, engaging poems ranging from limericks to raps, it offers an innovative and effective way for students of English to improve their understanding, and to be better understood.
Focusing on areas such as syllable length, linking, weak forms and stress placement, tasks and poems allow students to practise the understanding and production of fast, natural speech. A key to the tasks is included.
The accompanying CD-ROM contains detailed notes for teachers and ideas for additional activities, as well as extra material in the form of clearly presented complementary visuals.
‘Pronunciation is woefully neglected in all mainstream language courses but it is the one area in which we can have lots of fun with patterning of sounds in a way which is acceptable even to teenagers and adults. The only book which I know that has systematically tried to do this is the wonderful Rhymes and Rhythm […]' - David A. Hill, ‘Language Play and Creative Language Learning’
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Publisher: Garnet Education
ISBN:9781859645284