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Communicative Fluency Activities for Language Teaching : Keep Talking
This is a practical guide to communication activities in the language classroom, suitable for use with students from elementary to advanced level.
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Using Newspapers in the Classroom
A collection of over 130 practical and creative newspaper-based activities to use with young adult and adult learners from pre-intermediate to advanced levels. The activities, which show teachers how to exploit the different features and sections of newspapers, are designed to provide motivating and challenging learning experiences, as well as valuable language practice.
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Drama Techniques: A Resource Book of Communication Activities for Language Teachers
150 ideas for interesting and productive fluency practice - a large selection of drama-based techniques which focus learners' attention on communicative tasks or activities - techniques suitable for all levels - clear instructions for the teacher - advice on how to use the techniques in the classroom.
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Elementary Communication Games
This is the first of three books in the "Communication Games" series. It offers a collection of 40 games, a variety of activities, including guessing, matching, searching, role-play and simulation, specific functional areas for each activity and photocopiable copy-masters.
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Intermediate Communication Games
This is the second of three books in the "Communication Games" series. It offers a collection of 40 games, a variety of activities, including guessing, matching, searching, role-play and simulation, specific functional areas for each activity and photocopiable copy-masters.
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Advanced Communication Games
This is the third of three books in the "Communication Games" series. It offers a collection of 40 games, a variety of activities, including guessing, matching, searching, role-play and simulation, specific functional areas for each activity and photocopiable copy-masters.
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Five-minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities
Five-Minute Activities is an invaluable source of ideas for language teachers. It contains resources of over 130 short activities for the language classroom: some are well-tried favourites clearly restated, others are new ideas or variations.
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Games for Language Learning
Games provide meaningful and enjoyable language practice at all levels and for all age groups. They can be used to practise any of the skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing - at any stage of the learning process, from controlled repetition through guided practice to free expression.
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Discussions That Work: Task-centered Fluency Practice
What sort of activities produce genuine and enthusiastic exchanges of ideas? How can you prepare such exercises quickly and easily? These are some of the questions that Discussions that Work sets out to answer. The first part provides some general guidelines on the organisation of successful task-centered activities...
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Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources
Lessons from Nothing is an invaluable resource for busy teachers everywhere who are looking for easy-to-use activities which do not require extensive facilities or preparation. It is a practical source of around 70 language teaching activities which encourage interaction and co-operation in the classroom.
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Dictation: New Methods, New Possibilities
Dictation contains a wealth of new techniques to extend the traditional language-learning activity of dictation. The authors present some thought-provoking answers to such apparently simple questions as: Who chooses the text? Who dictates? Who corrects? What and how do they correct?
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Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom
Using film and video in the classroom is motivating and fun but can be daunting for the teacher. This book guides and supports teachers with plenty of practical suggestions for activities which can be used with drama, soap opera, comedy, sports programmes and documentaries. Many of the activities will lend themselves for use with DVD and webcasts.
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English Brainstormers: Ready-to-use Games and Activities That Make Language Skills Fun to Learn
For English and language arts teachers in grades 6-12, here's a unique collection of over 180 fun-filled, ready-to-use activities that help build the skills your students need for test-taking and overall academic success. These activities make learning enjoyable and stimulating while covering the entire English curriculum.
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Play Games with English: Teachers' Resource Book Bk. 1
"I thoroughly recommend these books for any teacher or language school. Finding materials to illustrate grammar / vocabulary points can take a lot of time. This series of books takes the tedium out of it and inspires you to think up new activities and games for your class."
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Vocabulary Games and Activities: Part 1
"It's an excellent book, with materials suitable for all levels and age groups. Younger students love "Word Battleships", while older students find the "Half Crosswords" both challenging and entertaining."
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Instant Lessons: Elementary
"This is a must have for all teachers of EFL/ESOL. It far surpasses the run-of-the-mill photocopiable activity books available to date. Clearly sectioned, easy to use, innovative and far clearer than any resource book I've used. The content can be used alone or as a supplement and I intend to buy the Intermediate version very soon."
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Discussions A-Z Intermediate Teacher's Book: A Resource Book of Speaking Activities
A photocopiable resource book of speaking activities designed to encourage lively, natural discussion among advanced level students. Providing a refreshing perspective on many common themes the material consists of 26 topic-based units, each filled with a variety of stimulating activities.
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Lessons in Your Rucksack: The Complete TEFL Survival Guide
A resource book of tips, ideas, activities and ready-made lesson plans for your first year of Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The complete TEFL survival guide for newly qualified teachers, gap year travellers, language assistants, summer school teachers, volunteer teachers.
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Teaching English One to One
This is a complete practical guide to teaching English one-to-one. It should appeal to anyone who is learning to teach English as a foreign or second language and also to teachers of English who need new ideas for teaching on a one-to-one basis. It contains advice on teaching techniques, sample lessons and tips on needs analysis and a resource bank.
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Singing Grammar: Teaching Grammar through Songs
A resource book containing eighteen songs, each with a specific grammar focus, and suitable for students from elementary to intermediate level. For each of the songs there is a clear page of teaching notes followed by a motivating song worksheet, a grammar exercise page and a fun grammar game for classroom use.
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Practical Idioms: Using Phrasal Verbs in Everyday Contexts
This text uses a proven, field-tested method for effectively learning over 1,000 useful verb phrases providing examples of colloquial usage and exercises that promote critical thinking.
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Teaching Tenses
A comprehensive analysis of form and function, with suggestions for presentation and practice of structures in context and a review of common learner errors for each tense. Contains photocopiable material.
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Practical English Usage
"I studied English as a second language and have been teaching it for over 10 years in Hong Kong. From time to time, I need to consult a dictionary or a reference book on usages and grammar. I saw this book by accident several years ago in the education section of the university library and I knew it's the one book I couldn't do without."
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Grammar Games: Cognitive, Affective and Drama Activities for EFL Students
This is a resource book for teachers containing material for a wide variety of games which can be played in the English language classroom. Each game focuses on one or more points of English grammar.
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Grammar Practice Activities: A Practical Guide for Teachers
For the teacher who wishes to combine grammar teaching with a broadly communicative methodology, this is an invaluable resource. It contains a collection of imaginative and interesting grammar practice activities suitable for a wide range of levels and ages.
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Games for Grammar Practice
A resource book containing a selection of more than forty games and activities for grammar practice. The activities are designed to promote intensive and interactive practice with learners of all ages from elementary to advanced level.
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Grammar Games and Activities: Part 1
"I have found this book to be a great asset to teaching, saving time for me and providing the students with useful and genuinely entertaining practice. It is a worthwhile investment."
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Learning Teaching
Learning Teaching has been one of the most successful guides to English since it was first published in 1994. Not only a superb textbook for initial training courses, it is also a no-nonsense handbook for practising ELT teachers, helping you to succeed from class to class, from week to week and from year to year.
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language
If you have recently trained to teach English as a foreign language or are currently on a training course, this book should give you practical help and support as you start your first teaching assignments. It should provide you with the basic teaching skills, background knowledge and awareness that will enable you to enter the classroom with confidence and develop your skills.
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Teaching English Abroad
"I did not need to read this book from start to finish, as it is so well presented that I was able to extract the information I required quickly and easily. A definite must read for anyone even remotely interested in teaching English in foreign lands. I would also recommend it to travellers looking for a means to supplement their income whilst visiting exotic far away place."
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Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
"This is a great book written by Brown. He discusses different factors influencing the success of students in learning a second language . Also, it is written in clear and simple language."
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The EL Gazette Guide to English Language Teaching Around the World
This guide offers details of: more than 850 courses in language teaching, from career entry to masters level; more than 3500 language schools worldwide which recruit EFL teachers; practical information on teaching in many locations around the world, including advice on visas and salaries; and dos and don'ts of building an international career in ELT.
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Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems
This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student's own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major problems of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other errors.
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Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language: A Teacher Self-development and Methodology Guide
"This is a book on language teaching for language teachers. The book takes the view that language teachers must be responsible for making the ideas in the book real for their own particular contexts. The book starts with self-development as a theme and then moves on to teaching skills."
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Pictures for Language Learning
Pictures for Language Learning is richly illustrated and provides a valuable guide to the role of pictures and other visual materials in language teaching. It brings together a wealth of ideas on how to use pictures in a wide range of language learning situations.
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