When Phil Ball left university with a workmanlike English degree to his name and no discernible ambitions, he wasn't entirely sure what to do next. So, like many before him, he thought he'd giving teaching a go. Why not? And so began a story of his encounters with other remarkable teachers and pupils, from the good, the bad, and the violent to the victimized and the clinically insane. Meet his first teaching practice nemesis - Alan Plant, who knows his dark secret - and the pupil who believes he is a reincarnation of the poet Andrew Marvell. It is a tale of the highs and lows of attempting to teach: from the joy of really making a difference to young minds to being physically set upon by a teenage horde. And that's just what happens in the classroom. Beyond it is the real world of teachers behind staff-room doors: desperate lives, unseemly professional competition, a diet of cigarettes, alcohol, and cold coffee, casual sex and general social dysfunction. Not a great example, but the truth.

The Hapless Teacher's Handbook

Biographies & Memoirs

Ball, Phil

Memoirs

Ebury Press

Putting CLIL into Practice offers a new methodological framework for the CLIL classroom, focusing on how to guide input and support output. Full of real-life examples and practical guidelines, the book provides support to both novice and experienced CLIL teachers.

Putting CLIL Into Practice (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers)

Reference

Kelly, Keith

Clegg, John

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press

Under the "buddy plan," 19-year-old Phil Ball joined the United States Marines - who promptly separated him from the friend he enlisted with. A few months later, he would have new buddies, the platoon mates who hunkered beside him under enemy attack. He learned that in the Vietnam War, friends in foxholes were quickly made and quickly lost.The death of his closest friend during a bloody battle in May 1968 was perhaps the beginning of Phil Ball's hardest fight of all. His tour in Vietnam lasted 13 months, but his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder would rage for 20 years. The writing of this memoir - a factual account of his time in Vietnam from April 1968 through May 1969, and the painful years that followed - was the beginning of his recovery.

Ghosts and Shadows: A Marine in Vietnam, 1968-1969

Leaders & Notable People

McFarland Publishing

The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As a grunt, in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. His--their--fear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam War--horrors that while in-country they often claimed did not even exist--would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Historical

McFarland Company

Morbo is the unique element that gives Spanish football its special flavour. More than mere rivalry, it is the expression in a thousand provocative ways of the feeling between clubs divided by history, language and politics. At its most bitter between Barcelona and Real Madrid, the same spirit courses through the uncompromising politics of the Basque Country, hangs over the divided city of Seville and marks Spain s attitudes towards its national team. In this brand new 2011 edition , Phil Ball examines the recent successes of the Spanish national team in the World Cup of 2010 and the European Championship of 2008, as the dark horses finally managed to live up to their potential. In addition the analysis of the rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is brought up to date to take account of the impact of José Mourinho and the many fractious recent encounters between the two clubs, in both domestic and European competition.

Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

When Saturday Comes Books

Within the trophy room at the Bernabeu, the spoils of a century's achievements provide indisputable evidence of football's conquistadores rubbing the world's noses in the dirt. They include 29 league titles, 9 European Cups, 17 Spanish Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, and 3 World Club Championship titles. The story of Real Madrid is, however, much more than the mere sum of its achievements. The club has always attracted the biggest names in the game, and for every Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, or Beckham, there is a legend from the past. White Storm charts the history of the club from its foundations to the golden period of Di Stefano and Puskas, through the "hippy years," to the modern embodiment of Madridismo. It ends with an analysis of the Beckham impact, the disintegration of the Florentino Perez regime, and a look at what the future might hold for the world's most famous club.

White Storm: The Story of Real Madrid

Football (American)

Mainstream Publishing

Tormenta blanca, la historia del Real Madrid

T&B Editores

Up From Ocean Avenue: Phil Ball's story as told by Maxwell Klausner

History

Klausner, Maxwell

Americas

Independently published

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