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Keeping the Essence in Sight
Keeping the Essence in Sight is an invitation to become a better teacher. To remember the essence of teaching, why we go into the classroom in the first place: To teach our students to communicate in the English language. We don’t become teachers so that we can grade tests, or fulfill national educational plans, or deal with difficult students, although teachers do all those things and more. We become teachers because we love teaching and we love our students. The book is based on Sharon Hartle’s renowned blog comprised of reflections on her teaching experience, and organized into four sections: Learning, Teaching, Testing, and Professional Development. Within each section she addresses key questions in ELT, such as: How can we motivate learners to want to learn and develop learner autonomy? What are the best ways to integrate technology into my lessons? Should we think about blended teaching instead of blended learning? Can we improve our teaching and our assessment if we change our model of English? What are some easy and accessible ways to do professional development? And most importantly, how can we be better teachers.
EIL, ELF, Global English
How can you teach the English language to global English speakers? Can English be taught as an international language? Is it worth teaching? Isn't it more proper and profitable to learn a standard variety of English? How realistic and useful is the identification of an EIL/ELF variety? Can an EIL/ELF standard be identified? These are some of the questions the present volume has addressed with the contribution of some of the most qualified scholars in the field of English linguistics. The book is divided into four sections. The first part deals with the definition of English as an international language and English as a lingua franca. Section two takes six different teaching issues into consideration. The third section examines some learning issues and the last part of the volume debates the relationship between teacher and student in an English as a lingua franca environment.
Teaching English with Corpora
Teaching English with Corpora is an accessible and practical introduction to the ways in which online and offline corpora can be used in English language teaching (ELT). Featuring 70 chapters written by an international range of researchers and practitioners, this book: • provides readers with clear, tested examples of corpus-based/driven lesson plans; • contains activities relevant to English for general purposes and English for specific purposes; • caters for the needs of English language teachers working with learners at different proficiency levels; • features flexible teaching suggestions that can be explored as part of a lesson or as a full lesson. This book is an essential purchase for pre- and in-service English language teachers as well as those studying corpus linguistics in undergraduate/Master’s courses in applied linguistics, ELT and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
Only the Best Intentions
English-Language Award 2018 Runner-up for Best Resource for Secondary to Adult Learners from the English-Speaking Union Life’s ups and downs do not slow down the busy Curry family whose members are juggling jobs, family, school, sports, and wedding plans. But when 20-year-old Gigi announces that she has broken off her engagement to a computer gamer, everything comes to a stop. Everyone wants to help Gigi and Oscar, but in a modern romance, the rules the game are always changing. Only the Best Intentions is part of the Integrated Skills Through Drama series that teaches speaking and communication skills through the performance of a one-act play. This flexible curriculum is perfect for a cla...
Stories Without End
Creative, intriguing short stories to make students think and wonder what if. . . Stories Without End engages students with literature through intriguing short stories that make them think and wonder. What if we could teleport anywhere in the world whenever we wanted to? Will robots ever replace human teachers? Why are some people optimists while others are pessimists? Where does our personality come from? Stories Without End also gets students creating with engaging projects. Because the stories have no end, students will have to create their own. They’ll also find themselves writing about one particular character, drawing a scene from the story, interviewing people about the theme of the...
Instant EFL Lesson Plans
Expecto Language Learning This book of innovative and original lesson plans that are quick and easy to use is your new magic weapon! Each original activities engages students without sacrificing the learning!Perfect for new teachers who wants to break away from the textbook. But even an experienced teacher will love this low-prep guide to incorporating art, storytelling, and drama to the classroom! These lesson plans will engage and challenge your students, and they will also challenge you as the teacher. If you’ve taken the safe route until now, relying on student books in your lesson plans, using a lot of printouts, and not taking too many risks, then these lessons will stretch you beyond your comfort zone. As you become familiar with the framework, you’ll find yourself adapting and improving these lessons. And even developing new, original lessons.
60 Positive Activities for Every Classroom
Want to make your students more focused, resilient, and motivated? Looking to reduce their stress and frustration and the accompanying negative impacts on learning? 60 Positive Activities for Every Classroom does that by providing opportunities to bring positivity into your class. This student workbook contains 60 no-prep, 10-minute activities that are adaptable to fit any classroom schedule. Each page contains a short, beautifully illustrated prompt that focuses on the positive side of life. Students will be setting goals, making wishes, thinking about a time someone helped them, and sharing ways to make them laugh. These make great brain breaks or fun warmers to keep the class mood up and ...
50 Activities for the First Day of School
It’s a little gem for newer teachers who want accessible activities for the first day or week at their fingertips. –Modern English Teacher A treasure trove of creative and practical icebreakers, warm-ups, and activities for building a cohesive class. –Dorothy Zemach Go back to school with confidence! With 50 Activities for the First Day of School, you can walk in to any classroom and start off with great first day with no preparation. This collection of fun and engaging activities will help you take care of important first day business and have fun at the same time: learn students’ names, build rapport, assess their knowledge, introduce language, and establish the class rules. Your students will walk away having had a fun first class. You will walk away with a classroom community that is respectful, work-oriented, and friendly. All of these back to school activities are classroom-tested, student-loved, and teacher-approved. Presented with clear and detailed instructions., there are also suggestions for varying or adapting the activities to your classroom. Even an experienced teacher will come to see old favorites and go-to activities in a new light.
60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities
“[60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities contains] a wide range of practicable activities that, in the words of the authors, ‘connect language in our head to our arms and legs, eyes and ears.“ — Scott Thornbury, Author of How to Teach Grammar and Grammar Uncovered from the Foreword Language is more than words. But too often, we teach grammar as a set of boring rules, best practiced by filling out worksheets. 60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities by Alice Savage and Colin Ward bursts this myth with a collection of activities that get students out of their seats and learning in a dynamic and active classroom. The benefits of kinetic language learning activities are many: teach gesture and nonverbal communication activate our embodied mind make grammar memorable change the dynamics of the classroom build community and raise students’ moods. This book contains everything you need to practice 60 common grammar points in a dynamic and active way! All the activities inside are all low-prep or no-prep, easy to adapt to your classroom, and flexible enough to work with a variety of target language features.
60 Positive Activities for Kids
How can we help kids enjoy learning more? How can we build positivity for kids? This book sets out to do just that with 60 positive activities. Yet these positive classroom activities have a serious purpose: building resilience and grit, and encouraging mindfulness. When kids get caught in a negative cycle of frustration and anxiety, they don’t learn or retain information as well! The prompts in this book are designed to help free students from this negativity, build self-understanding, create compassion, and help them love to learn. The activities are also wonderful discussion or writing prompts. Use them to break the ice in a new class, introduce the theme of a new unit, or do some pre-w...
