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Spotlight on Learning Styles focuses on how we learn rather than what we learn. It sheds light on our personal learning preferences and what we can do to learn and to teach more successfully - so that: Teachers discover the characteristics of their own teaching styles. Learners discover the characteristics of their own learning styles. Teachers and learners can apply this knowledge to the classroom. The book also provides opportunities for us all to step outside our 'comfort zones', multip...

The Autonomy Approach presents an important departure from the theoretical discussions which underpin the majority of work on learner autonomy. It introduces a practical perspective to self-directed language learning (teachable-learnable activities rooted in principles of learning), which draws on aspects of study skills and strategies as well as a variety of approaches, namely differentiated, individualised, self-directed, self-access and open-access learning. With the autonomy approach, empha...

Storytelling With Our Students invites you on a fascinating and personal journey in the company of David Heathfield - an experienced teacher and dedicated storyteller. He introduces you to the art of telling an unscripted story, and provides you with the opportunity to bring stories from many cultures to vibrant life in your language teaching. Storytelling builds confidence, develops language skills, encourages speaking and listening fluency, and increases motivation and interaction. Teachers...

Film in Action convincingly places the moving image at the centre of the 21st century language learning agenda. This ground-breaking book shows how teachers can benefit enormously from the emergence of video distribution sites and the proliferation of mobile devices. The book invites teachers to experiment with film, and provides: Insights into how learners can engage with film. Over 100 activities for teachers to bring film into the language class. Steps for teachers and learners to create...

Going Mobile explains, and then demonstrates with practical activities, how to use mobile devices in English Language Teaching in a principled and pedagogically sound way. It is a pioneering book, directed towards teachers - and therefore towards learners - in the age of the digital revolution, and it breaks new ground by offering much-needed support in our 21st-century classrooms. How to take advantage of the hand-held devices now available How to face the many challenges that stand in the wa...

Teaching children how to learn is a groundbreaking book offering Primary language teachers a new and practical methodology based on the importance, now universally recognized in curricula around the world, of teaching children how to learn. Three distinctive parts take teachers through a step-by-step approach to understanding, implementing and reflecting on learning to learn. It shows how learning to learn can be achieved through a "Plan, Do, Do More, Review and Share" routine.

Around the year is a collection of teaching resources suitable for students in their first years of learning English. The book comprises a lively and diverse collection with more than 60 master copies. The chapters are set in chronological order, except chapter 12, which is about birthdays and can therefore be used at any time of year. Each chapter relates to a specific time of year or event.

The Games Book is a photocopiable resource book for use with adult and teenage students of English. The 20 games in the collection are divided into two sections: ten for use with general English learners and ten more specifically for business English classes. The Games Book gives students a chance to practise language in a more relaxed format.

Using Humour in the English Classroom 72 copymasters with motivating and fun activities increase learners' language awareness and improve their communication skills verbal, visual and written humour including droodles and graffiti, newspaper headlines, church and shop signs, "Waiter, waiter", "Doctor, doctor" and "Knock, knock" jokes, spoonerisms, malapropisms, limericks, tongue twisters, and many more … suitable for all English learners from CEF level A2 bring variety to your class...

Class Act is a photocopiable collection of 12 short plays aimed at young learners of English, aged 7-11. The plays cover a variety of topics and genres, including traditional and modern tales, comedy and fantasy. The plays offer an age-appropriate and fun way for young children to practise useful language in English through enjoyable and motivating storylines. The plays are graded in order of difficulty to suit a range of levels. The plays involve listening, speaking, watching and plenty of mov...

Aimed at teachers of young children Telling Tales in English contains photocopiable pages of well-known and much-loved stories, with accompanying activities, for use with pupils aged 8-11 years. Each story covers a number of lessons, with a wide variety of activities, practising specific language and vocabulary. These activities are also designed to help teachers exploit other similar stories with their pupils. The material in Telling Tales in English: is simple and easy to prepare, with full...

Teamwork is a photocopiable resource book for use with adult and teenagestudents of English from intermediate to advanced levels. Features include: 20 lively and appealing units designed to inspire interaction between students through original, creative ideas and tasks a variety of activity types including jigsaw communication, task-based learning, role-play and collaborative projects supplementary activities in each unit which reinforce and practise the language that has been studied exten...

Role Plays for Today is a photocopiable resource book for use with adult and teenage EFL and ESOL students from elementary to advanced levels. It provides teachers with an instant resource of up-to the-minute role play activities which can be used to support or extend any English teaching course. The activities can be adapted for use with classes of any size. Features include: 39 enjoyable, ready to use role plays divided into five 'real world' categories - Services, Shopping, Social life, L...

Speaking Games is a photocopiable resource book of 50 original speaking activities that provide effective practice of a wide range of communication skills and functions. Pairwork, groupwork and whole class games not only liven up the classroom, but also motivate learners to use language in authentic interaction when planning for, playing and evaluating performance during the games. Each game: covers a specific range of functional language, vocabulary and grammar to ensure compatibility with...

Authentic Listening Resource Pack provides an invaluable bank of selected audio and video material offering authentic listening practice, essential in developing students' listening skills in preparation for being exposed to "real" English. Authentic Listening Resource Pack consists of over 4 hours of authentic audio and video materials supported by photocopiable worksheets. The recordings are broken down into segments, including micro-listenings, so that students can develop a range of listen...

Every learner of English wants to develop fluent, natural English - understanding and using phrasal verbs is an essential part of this development. Using Phrasal Verbs not only helps learners to understand phrasal verbs, but also helps them learn when and how to use phrasal verbs successfully, to produce more natural-sounding English. Using Phrasal Verbs teaches students over 400 commonly used phrasal verbs builds students' confidence in using phrasal verbs appropriately through extensive and...

DELTA Natural English is a series of language practice books for students who aspire to use natural, fluent English. Collocations are the key to fluent English. Learning words on their own may enable students to communicate, but to sound natural, students must learn which words typically go together. Using Collocations helps students to improve the way they use the words they already know. Common English collocations are fi rst presented in simple exercises. Students go on to understand and us...

A Handbook of Spoken Grammar is written for students from intermediate level and above looking to develop natural fluency in their speaking skills. A Handbook of Spoken Grammar is divided into 20 units, each dealing with a key spoken grammar strategy. Written for class or self-study use, each spoken grammar strategy is identified in context using conversational examples available for free on the DELTA Augmented app and short written transcripts. Each strategy is then explained in full before stu...

The Teacher’s Book includes ideas for lead in activities, suggested lesson procedures and extra activities for each unit. SkillsWork is an exciting book for teachers and students who want to focus on skills development at intermediate level and beyond. SkillsWork is lively and motivating with a range of engaging and relevant topics.

SkillsWork is an exciting book for teachers and students who want to focus on skills development at intermediate level and beyond. SkillsWork can be used alongside a standard coursebook or on its own, ideal if you want to teach away from the coursebook for part of the day or week. SkillsWork provides forty interesting lessons of integrated skills work with each unit having a focus skill while also linking in to practice all four skills in each and every lesson. SkillsWork provides endless o...