The 100 reproducible activities in each of these volumes are designed for mainstream teachers who have ESL students in their classrooms. Teachers will find hundreds of practical ideas, proven advice, and reproducible activities that help non-English-speaking students survive in the mainstream classroom.
Practical Faster Reading provides the basis for a reading improvement course lasting a total of 30 class hours and has proved popular with students and teachers in a variety of settings. Thirty passages covering a wide range of topics of general interest and accompanying exercises give practice in the reading skills needed at upper-intermediate and more advanced levels. Substantial increases in…
Business English Pair Work 1 gives intermediate students of Business English invaluable practice in communication skills. There are four types of exercise: information-gap, discussion, role-play and simulation. All the exercise work is completely new and there is intensive work on writing reports, negotiating budgets and contracts, consumer surveys, training, and executive recruitment.
Is a revised and extended version of the international bestseller Play games with english, full of new material and fun, motivating games and activities, now presented in three levels. The teacher's resource book has been specially designed for teachers to use in the classroom: the games can be easily photocopied. -- notes outline how the graded games can be played as a class activity. -- extra…
Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Student's Book contains 16 thematic units with a selection of engaging topics that motivate learners to relate the reading to their own experiences. Three inviting reading passages in each unit, all adapted from authentic sources, allow students to explore the theme in d…
The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, list…
Pronunciation Pairs is a classic listening and pronunciation text that teaches students to recognize and produce all of the speech sounds of North American English. It also covers important features such as word and sentence stress, and intonation.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Introducing Skills for Understanding is the high-beginning level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Stud…