Variety is the spice of life – and the lively classroom!
In this practical guide for instructors who create their own teaching materials, IATEFL President Marjorie Rosenberg briefly investigates different learner types/learning preferences found in the classroom and then shows how to create or modify activities to engage a variety of learning styles.
Whether you’re just starting out, a mid-career teacher, or a seasoned veteran of the classroom, you can find ways to make your teaching more effective and require less effort. 50 Ways to Be a Better Teacher offers humanistic advice to nurture the teacher’s soul while improving your professional performance.
This practical teacher training manual & activity guide supports the communicative classroom. Activities include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, & icebreakers, as well as activities for lesson planning such as discussion, giving instructions, guided & less-guided practice, and independent practice. Includes downloadable and photocopiable activity templates for classroom use.
Ten strangers are lured to a remote Scottish island at the invitation of a reclusive industrialist. Stranded on Lord Black's wondrous estate, the disparate guests have more in common than they first realize. Accused in a mysterious letter of having committed crimes in their past, one by one they are hunted down. But who is the killer? Will any of them live to find out?
***UPDATED 2018***
From laptops to smartphones, IC recorders to video cameras, desktop software to cloud-based services, technological devices influence the way we teach. Whether you wish to use students’ mobile devices, conduct an effective & engaging lesson in a CALL lab, or simply expand your list of language learning websites, this book has a wide selection of ideas for you.
This guide for new or experienced teachers of English as a second or foreign language contains fifty techniques, strategies, activities, and games for teaching pronunciation. It can be used alongside any existing textbook and is suitable for all levels. This book has 6 sections: Word stress; Speech Rhythm; Speech Groups; Final Intonation & Focus; Linking & Blending; Consonant & Vowel Sounds.
MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX’s most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on enrollments & rate of completion) advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study. Suitable for both native and non-native speakers of English.
When the body of Former Governor Turyat is discovered in the Red Happiness, QuiTai is the prime suspect. Surprisingly, she seems almost eager to be taken into custody. If Kyam Zul is to keep her neck out of the noose, he must solve the crime without her help – while matching wits with not only the real killer but his scheming grandfather, his political rivals, and his own wife.
This book is for classroom or individual study for students who need to clean up their grammar at the word level in preparation for university-level academic writing. It presents 60 words or phrases that are problematic for advanced non-native students of English, exposing the errors, explaining them, and providing examples of correct usage and opportunities to practice writing.
Tony Grams comes to America at the start of the twentieth century, set on becoming a new man. He lands a job at the Ford Motor Company that puts him at the center of a daring social and economic experiment. Ford offers to double the standard wage for men who will be thrifty, sober, and dedicated--and will let Ford investigators into their homes to confirm it...
Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges.Teachers are often looking for age- and level-appropriate activities to engage teens’ interest while providing meaningful practice. This book presents ideas and techniques appropriate for teenagers, divided into sections for Icebreakers / Warm-ups, Vocabulary Revision, Grammar, Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.
What characterizes academic writing and business writing? What are the differences between the two genres? Where do they intersect? This book offers an overview of the features of both styles of writing, as well as opportunities to improve your writing skills in a wide variety of contexts.
This book is made for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. You will learn 50 ways to notice, understand, and practice different grammatical structures in English. The book covers both awareness activities and practice activities. You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book.
Curious why no one has claimed their UK lotto winnings from you? Why no one wants to call about the box of cash valued at (7,500,000 Dollars)? Why no one is responding to your PASSIONATE REQUEST FOR JOINT MUTUAL INVESTMENTS BENEFITS? This textbook analyzes common mistakes, drawn from genuine correspondence, and helps you improve your writing to be appropriate for standard business correspondence.
Blood Highways is the heart-wrenching account of the biggest product liability case in history: the Ford-Firestone fiasco. At the center of the story are two people: Tab Turner, a charismatic trial attorney from Arkansas, and Donna Bailey, a single mother and outdoor enthusiast who who fought back from the brink of death to confront those ultimately responsible for her accident.
What does it take to write a good essay? This book covers the basics of grammar, sentence construction, and paragraphs, and then outlines how to plan and write an essay. You will find writing prompts, vocabulary lists, and editing exercises (with suggested answers).
Those in line to the Malenfer estate are succumbing to terrible ends – a supernatural legacy, or something more human? Irish mercenary Dermot Ward retreats to Paris at the close of WWI, where he drinks to forget his experiences & the death of his comrade, Arthur Malenfer. But Arthur has not forgotten Dermot. Dead but not departed, Arthur has unfinished business and needs the help of the living.
ESL/EFL learners need to know a great many words to read, write, listen, or speak with ease. Students learn the most easily when they are interested and having fun. Games and activities that engage students, whether they are adults or children, will help them create stronger memories and store these memories for longer. This book provides 50 tips to help students learn and remember vocabulary.
Dangerous women aren’t always the ones who carry guns and take down the bad guys. Sometimes, the most dangerous women are the ones we don’t even notice...
In this collection, award-winning author Shanna Germain gathers seven of her darkest, lushest fantasy and horror stories about strong, smart women who know that danger is a matter of scale -- and of which side you happen to be standing on.
When his friend is murdered, journalist True Ailey sets out to find the killers, and in the process untangles a vast conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. Set in the near future, Virtually True takes readers on a wild ride through a world where corporations rule, technology has been woven into the fabric of people's lives, and information can be a weapon or a life-saver.
The good news is that public defender Summer Neuwirth just won her first case, involving a brutal rape and kidnapping. The bad news? Her client was guilty. And he knows all about Summer's past. As Summer pursues her next case, to keep an innocent woman off death row, elements of that past entwine with her present legal work and rocky personal life to culminate in a thrilling trial--and terror.
This is acclaimed linguist and author David Nunan’s fascinating account of growing up in the Australian outback in the 1950s and 1960s.
(Publisher’s note: Spellings and vocabulary are Australian English; a glossary of terms that may be unfamiliar to North Americans is provided at the back of the book.)
There’s no rest for the wicked, especially the Devil. While QuiTai recovers from her last adventure, Levapur is turning into a police state. The Pongonese are pushed to the brink of rebellion against their colonial masters, the Thampurians – but who is behind it, and why? QuiTai must wield her power and use her brilliant mind to outsmart her mysterious nemesis before a bloody uprising erupts.
QuiTai, concubine of the mysterious Devil, receives an unexpected invitation to cocktails with the disgraced Kyam Zul. She doesn’t trust Kyam, but when her ex-lover is murdered, Kyam is the only one who knows the name of the killer, and he won’t tell QuiTai unless she helps him first. The back alleyways of Levapur’s tropical colony hide more than lovers, and one of them wants QuiTai dead.
This book is for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. You will learn 50 ways to practice and improve writing – both with pen and paper and typing. You do not need to have English-speaking friends or acquaintances to write to, or even any idea of what to write about. This book will provide those ideas. By applying these methods, you will write more, faster, and more correctly.
Many textbooks do a fine job of presenting grammar to students. However, some students or classes need more practice after they’ve finished the exercises in their textbook. This guide provides imaginative and enjoyable games, drills, and activities to practice different grammatical structures such as verb tenses, articles, phrasal verbs, relative clauses, modals, word forms, syntax, and more.
A resource book for teachers of English as a second or foreign language.
This book presents ideas and techniques appropriate for young learners, divided into sections for Vocabulary; TPR, Songs, and Chants; Flashcards; Grammar; Combination Activities; and Holidays. Several of the activities are illustrated with photographs from the instructor’s own classroom.
This book is for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. You will learn 50 ways to learn, practice, and remember vocabulary. By applying these methods, you will understand English more easily and speak and write it better. You don't need to be in an English-speaking country or in an English class to use this book.
Twenty-five essays on teaching English as a second language by renowned ELT materials writer and teacher trainer Dorothy Zemach. The wide variety of topics include classroom management, testing and assessment, teaching reading strategies, coping with cheating and plagiarism, teaching visual learners, culture shock, the value of a non-native teacher, and recognizing and overcoming teacher burnout.
Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students' interest? How do you ensure that they get enough practice to really learn? This guide gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master writing in English. For beginning to advanced levels; many tips require little to no preparation or special materials.
Expanded and updated for 2023!
You will learn 50 ways to practice and improve listening in English. By applying these methods, you will improve your comprehension and your confidence. Areas covered include Strategies, Devices, Media, Fun & Games, Academic.
You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book.
Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students' interest? How do you make sure they get enough practice to really learn?
This guide gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, & ideas to help your students master listening to English. For beginning to advanced levels; many tips require little to no preparation or special materials.
Teaching English as a second or foreign language is full of challenges: How do you hold students' interest? How do you ensure that they get enough practice to really learn? This guide gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English.
For beginning to advanced levels; many tips require little to no preparation or special materials.
This book is for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. You will learn 50 ways to practice and improve speaking skills. By applying these methods, you will speak more correctly and more fluently. You don't need to be in an English-speaking country or in an English class to use this book. However, students already in a class can improve their speaking more quickly and easily.
This book is made for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language.
You will learn 50 ways to practice and improve reading skills. By applying these methods, you will read faster and better, and remember information longer. You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. Good for beginners through advanced levels.
This little book provides a collection of tips and reminders for taking care of yourself and having a productive and happy time as you study. Whether you are an international student, an older non-traditional student, a student at a community college, or a “traditional” freshman at a four-year-college or university, there is a tip here to help you. Get a copy for yourself – or a student you love!