Reading for Life: A First Book for Adults and Their Tutors

Reference

Allen, Virginia French

Words, Language & Grammar

Alta English Pub Inc

Your students can and will take on the active role of teaching! This extraordinary teacher guide and activity resource book blends the philosophical and practical into a complete guide for building student motivation and participation, developing students’ ability to collaborate, and centering the instructional content on students themselves. The wisdom and suggestions in every chapter reflect years of shared language teaching experiences–you will encounter hundreds of ideas and activities that will inspire students to work together and at the same time help you understand your students like never before! Each chapter, in addition to the activities, starts with stimulating questions on your own goals and teaching methods, and then offers valuable insights to further improve these methods! This resource is a must for teachers and teachers in training!

Community Spirit: A Practical Guide to Collaborative Language Learning

Bassano, Sharron

Christison, Mary Ann

Look around you and you’ll find the ideal workbook for a wonderful time! This second workbook concentrates on survival English. Terms for street safety, school rules and activities, colors, lunch room vocabulary, numbers, money, clothing, calendar, weather, and time are all presented in non-cumulative, basic entry-level units. You’ll find the basic language for playing games, making friends, and giving compliments, as well as beginning practice with verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and common present tense structures. At the end of this workbook students will be able to write a short composition describing a favorite animal, themselves, their abilities, and more of the world around them!

All Around Me: ESL Wonder Workbooks Ser., Vol. 2

Elizabeth Claire

Hats off to this professional volume tailored just for practicing language program administrators and administrators-in-training! Most administrators begin their administrative careers with expertise in language teaching, curriculum design, and materials development. They often have to learn the rest by trial and error. However, now with this one-of-a-kind handbook, you can say good-bye to the trial and error process forever! Written by experienced professionals in the field, this resource focuses on the multiple roles that language program administrators must play, including multicultural manager; strategic planner; decision maker; negotiator; innovator; student, faculty, and program advocate; promoter; organizer; budgeter; and writer. Each chapter offers problem-solving suggestions and activities to assist in handling the challenges faced by administrators. There’s also a final section featuring essential principles of gender equity, marketing, international teacher assistant training, immigration, and marketing. This is a valuable text in courses designed to train future administrators in MA and Certification programs–plus it’s a must for every language administrator’s personal library!

Handbook for Language Program Administrators

The Communicating on Campus Teacher's Guide offers a wealth of teaching suggestions, reproducible cards and worksheets, complete answer keys, and the scripts for all of the recorded material on the audio component.

Communicating on Campus: Skills for Academic Speaking

Politics & Social Sciences

Hemmert, Amy

O'Connell, Ged

Social Sciences

Dig out your detective cap for this fun-filled mission to find picture differences! This classic resource features twenty-two photocopiable picture-pairs containing 8 differences each. The problem-solving activity asks students to compare the pictures and look for the differences. The exciting search creates a real desire to communicate! All pictures are accompanied by the following valuable "clues": a list of the differences, context questions, language functions, life skills extensions, and further language development exercises. Helpful teaching suggestions give teachers the "magnifying glass" they need to create insightful, dynamic lessons! Even Sherlock Holmes would take more than one look at these pictures!

Look Again Pictures: For Language Development and Lifeskills

Olsen, Judy W.

Teen & Young Adult

Warm up students' writing skills (and muscles) with this energizing teacher resource of activities and photocopiable exercise sheets. Designed to sensitize English learners to the process of writing before their first compositions go down on paper, these 70 activities introduce such writing concepts as audience, purpose, point of view, focus, classification, sequence, cause and effect, and comparison and contrast. Every activity has easy-to-follow teacher notes and minimal preparation for the teacher. An answer key is included. These activities will be welcomed by teachers of English in secondary, university, and adult education settings, at an intermediate or higher level. They're truly a fun "workout room" for getting English learners' writing skills "in shape."

Writing Warm Ups: 70 Activities for Prewriting

McKay, Heather

Tom, Abigail

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Teach English worldwide with this practical introduction to the field! Specially designed for those thinking about teaching English, planning to take a TESOL training course, or just starting work in a language school, this user-friendly resource adds a bundle of enjoyment to the process! The 21 chapters cover all the essentials, including: answers to basic questions about language teaching; how to manage your classroom, plan lessons, and use textbooks; methods and ideas for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing; understanding of basic grammar verb forms; a wealth of knowledge and activities for using visual aids, games, drama, and songs; awareness of pronunciation and the International Phonetic Alphabet; suggestions on correcting errors and testing; and a reference section featuring a first lesson plan and a placement test. Each unit features tasks for the reader and wraps up with review questions and a Further Reading list. This is a basic "must" to pack in your suitcase as you prepare to teach!

Teaching English Worldwide: A Practice Guide to Teaching English (Alta Professional Series)

Lindsay, Paul

Add a twist of . . . diamonds, dances, secrets, guardian angels, talking dogs, love letters, bicycles rides, fire engines . . . and get a sensational collection of stories with just the right flavor! We’ve all experienced "twists" in life . . . when something other than what we expect happens. In these fascinating stories, the "twist" adds a new meaning to the lives of the characters . . . and the readers. Innovative and heart-warming, these stories encourage learners to express important things about themselves, their lives, and their world. Each story sparkles with a visual introduction; generates lively discussion; includes a variety of vocabulary and comprehension exercises; encourages independent expression; and caters to all four language skills. Triple the value by listening to the stories on CD! The all new CD features a lively reading of each of the fifteen stories. Whether it be realizing that "all that glitters is not diamonds" or learning that the secret to life is an allergic reaction to bullets, readers will thoroughly enjoy the refreshing twist within this book!

Stories With a Twist

Hess, Natalie

English as a Second Language

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