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Language Activities for Teenagers Seth Lindstromberg

Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521541930 | ISBN-10: 052154193X) Here are 99 enjoyable activities, for 11-16 year olds, to coax, cajole and tempt them into learning English. The authors, drawing on their own vast experience, share ideas on maintaining discipline, using ice-breakers, warmers, fillers, developing vocabulary and using literature.

Contributors Judit FehĂŠr, Jean Harper-RĂźdiger, David A. Hill, Hanna Kryszewska, Bonnie Tsai, Tessa Woodward, Seth Lindstromberg

Working with Images A Resource Book for the Language Classroom

Ben Goldstein 1 CD-ROM, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521710572) Working with Images contains over 75 practical teaching ideas for the language classroom.

Activities involve the use of both low-tech and high-tech images and are suitable for a very wide variety of teaching contexts: young learners and adults; specialised and general English; richly- or minimally-equipped classrooms.

Activities can be used in any order, at any point in a course. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other topics.

The accompanying CD-ROM contains a bank of images, ready for immediate classroom use.

Stories Narrative Activities for the Language Classroom

Ruth Wajnryb Stories are a wonderful way of helping students learn and acquire language. This book is for teachers who want to use stories in class but need a place to start. Stories is packed full of fun activities using different genres: soap opera, urban myth and newspaper reporting as well as advice on using stories in the classroom.

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Mario Rinvolucri , Christine Frank Creative Writing offers more than 80 inspiring activities to stimulate your students to want to write things down in English. Each lesson is based on ‘real’ writing – writing that conveys a meaningful message, either from the student to him- or herself or to a real recipient. This has two main benefits: first, it speeds learning, and second, it creates a real sense of enjoyment and fulfilment for your students.

Creative Writing is packed with great writing ideas from providing practical help in producing exam answers to suggesting interesting new ways of telling stories. Plus there’s a wide range of lesson plans that will be of value to you as an EFL teacher, whether you’re fresh out of teachertraining college or have been teaching English successfully for 40 years.

Creative Writing puts the fun back in writing, both for your students and for you.

The activities can be adapted and used for all level of students from beginner to advanced.

G端nter Gerngross , Herbert Puchta and Scott Thornbury

Teaching Grammar Creatively is a practical new resource book that offers a variety of lessons and activities for everyday use in your English language class.

It aims to stimulate the imagination, humour and creativity of your students and increase the effectiveness of grammar practice.

Teaching Grammar Creatively offers more than 50 complete lessons covering a wide range of grammar structures, learner levels, and age groups. Each lesson is divided into two main sections: Language Awareness Activities and Creative Grammar Practice.

The Language Awareness Activities are designed to introduce and provide initial practice of items that may still be unfamiliar to your students.

The Creative Grammar Practice section provides ideas for a deeper and more personalised familiarisation with these items, always with an element of individual creativity. Each lesson ends with the creation of a learner text - a permanent and original record of the grammar, in the form of a story, or a poem, for example.

Seth Lindstromberg and Frank Boers

http://www.helblinglanguages.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28 1&Itemid=256 NEW Teaching Chunks of Language is a motivating new resource book based on the fundamental assumptions of the so-called lexical (or ‘chunk teaching’) approach. Language as used by native speakers consists substantially of memorized multiword chunks (e.g. by the way). For learners of a foreign language, knowledge of chunks is strongly associated with important aspects of proficiency such as oral fluency and naturalness of expression. The challenging question for foreign learners therefore is this: How can many chunks be committed to active, long-term memory? Teaching Chunks of Language suggests a communicative approach to the teaching of chunks of language. Most of the activities presented are decidedly communicative and involve a lot of speaking and listening as well as intensive reading and some writing.

Teaching Chunks of Language is organised in 4 chapters:

RE-usable activities; Activity sequences; RE-usable review & learning quiz activities, Testing techniques.

Ruth Wajnryb, Alan Maley DICTOGLOSS 2 Reviews Oxford University Press, 21 Jun 1990 - 144 pages This title includes the following features: Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom - the 'grammar dictation' or 'dictogloss' procedure. A text is dictated at normal speed, after which students try and reconstruct their own version of the original text. The correction process then enables students to understand their errors and the language options available to them.; The activities enable students to improve their understanding and use of English grammar. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780194370042.do#.UDZUxI4zLww

Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca A user-friendly handbook which explores the benefits of an English as a Lingua Franca approach to pronunciation Robin Walker Understand what English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is, explore the benefits of an ELF approach, and learn how to plan, teach, and assess it.

Part of: Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers ISBN: 978-0-19-442200-0 RRP: £ 27.50 Binding: Mixed media format English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the world today. This book and audio CD explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students. It covers techniques and materials for teaching ELF pronunciation, including planning and assessment and the influence of learners' first language pronunciation. The accompanying audio CD features dialogues between ELF speakers from fifteen different first language backgrounds.http://elt.oup.com/catalogue

The Company Words Keep is a practical and thoughtprovoking guide for language teachers, showing how the latest insights into “language chunks” can lead to learners acquiring natural and fluent English.

Here is a new methodology based on the Lexical Approach, a practical theory of language, of learning – and of teaching.

The authors have drawn on their considerable experiences to reflect both on the situation of many non-native teachers around the world who are not always sure which word partnerships are likely and unlikely as well addressing native speakers who still need point-of-need confidence in class and in the key terms involved in the teaching of lexical chunks.

They provide: an approach to all aspects of teaching chunks: from beginners to advanced, from ESP to exam preparation … a glossary of essential terms: from acronyms to the Web, deixis to delexification, priming to pragmatics … a new methodology: a practical theory of language, of learning – and of teaching.

The Company Words Keep contains three distinctive parts which focus in turn on theory, practice and development: Part A answers three key questions: What is a chunk? How fixed is a chunk? How long is a chunk? The authors draw from three factors: the use of corpus data; an increased interest by linguists in word partnerships; and the availability of computational tools that can sort the data.

Part B offers a battery of over a hundred activities that will get your students chunking. They introduce and practise chunks, exploiting both the coursebook and authentic texts, as well as making the most of the immense possibilities afforded by

the use of data processing.

Part C gives further insights, helping you to review what you know, reflect on the reality of lexical chunking and take steps to find out more for yourselves – in the interest of your personal and professional life.