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Intercultural Language Activities offers practical teaching ideas which encourage learners to reflect on their own language and culture, as well as that of others. Topics covered in the fourteen chapters include childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners mediate in situations of cultural misunderstanding and start web-based intercultural exchanges. It examines interview techniques, how people present themselves, and ways to interpret cultural symbols and characteristics, such as those found in postcards, advertisements and online newspapers. In engaging with these topics, learners become intercultural explorers and raise their level of communicative competence. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher who wishes to combine language lea

This photocopiable resource book contains a wide variety of games and activities designed to supplement your coursebook. Primary Activity Box contains material designed to be easy to use: every activity has clear step-by-step instructions explaining what you need before class, how to set the activity up in the classroom and ideas for optional follow-up tasks. The Audio CD contains listen-and-do activities, creative dictations and a range of songs, rhymes and chants.

This book offers a carefully-structured series of activities which, in a non-threatening way, guides learners to write their own stories.

The range of language practised includes speaking and writing skills, tenses, descriptive adjectives, reporting verbs, direct speech, functions, discussion and argument, letters and diaries.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resou

Provides a rich resource of imaginative ideas and techniques for teaching pronunciation.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom m

Essential reading for language teachers, teacher trainers and trainees.

Key features

• Provides a wide variety of immediately accessible ideas for projects inside and outside the classroom.
• Fully updated and revised, with projects which have been designed and tested by teachers from all over the world.
• Activities can be used with a wide range of levels and age groups. They need a minimum of preparation and each activity is explained in full - the aims, resources, preparation and implementation, and feedback.
• The projects vary in length between 3 hours and 20 weeks, and they have satisfying outcomes for students and improve their overall communicative ability.
• Tasks give participants the chance to improve their competence

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.

Grammar Dictation employs the 'dictogloss' technique to improve learners' understanding through the reconstruction of texts.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks an

Beginners contains over 100 original, ready-to-use activities for beginners' classes. These include activities for both absolute and 'false' beginners, and a section for use with learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

"Listen to Learn", with its companion music CD, offers teachers a dynamic way to use the history of American music to engage their students (grades 5-8) in reading, writing, social studies, geography, music, and multicultural lessons and activities. The book traces the colorful musical traditions of diverse cultures including early Native music, folk, blues, classical, jazz, country, Tejano, salsa, rock, and rap. The CD features authentic music from such American musical greats as Louis Armstrong, Woody Guthrie, Mahalia Jackson, Lead Belly, Lydia Mendoza, and many more. "Listen to Learn" features a variety of fascinating activities that encourage students to write about their favorite music, investigate songs as poetry, research the lives of famous musicians, explore family musical tra