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A Fractured Winter
A Fractured Winter, the second novel by retired former ETAS President, Alison Baillie-Taylor, is an intriguing mystery. A missing girl, threatening notes, sinister strangers – the signal words on the back cover tell the potential reader to expect a crime novel. Yet, this contemporary novel is much more than just a page-turner. It is one…
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Communicative Business English Activities
Many of you probably know Marjorie Rosenberg, the American author of a new, comprehensive, photocopiable, spiral-bound activities book geared to assist Business English teachers with communicative practice for their group lessons.Marjorie is an active volunteer for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), including having served as Past President and…
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CREATIVE OUTPUT Activities for Teaching Speaking and Writing
Creative Output offers teachers practical resources to assist in improving students’ productive skills. Hence, the activities are focused on enhancing speaking and writing skills which means providing language learners with plenty of output opportunities. The tasks are designed to encourage creativity and interactivity. In this sense, the tasks facilitate a student-centred learning approach. This practical paperback…
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Business Proficiency: Wirtschaftsenglisch für Hochschule und Beruf
This dense Business English course and exam preparation book offers a plethora of classroom exercises to help students tackle language in various business environments. Aimed at bringing Business English learners from the CEFR B2 to C1-level, the book provides general preparation for typical Business English exams (mainly BEC and IELTS) and supplies learners with extensive…
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Dealing with Difficulties – Solutions, strategies and suggestions for successful teaching
Both Luke Prodromou and Lindsay Clandfield are well known to ETAS members as experts in their field. Both started their careers teaching and have used their first-hand knowledge to address the difficulties we face as teachers. Besides systematically listing and exploring those difficulties, they offer suggestions on how to deal with them as the title…
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Grammar for Great Writing (C) Student’s Book
The Grammar for Great Writing series of books aims to cover general grammatical points that have been found to challenge students when producing writing tasks across the different English learning levels. C, the third and final in the series, focuses on areas that are of concern to advanced students. It is especially designed as a companion to…
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Great Writing 4 Student’s Book C1
Great Writing(Book 4) is the fourth book, in a series of five, which are designed to train students in carefully graded steps to improve their writing, starting in the first book at a basic level and leading on eventually to research standard at level five. The material presented is well-adapted to teaching students who wish…
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Teaching Hospitality English
This self-published book was written by a teacher for fellow teachers and provides those of you who teach Hospitality English a framework in which to model your lessons while covering a variety of language needs specific to the hospitality industry. It is divided into four parts with practical situations, language focus, resources, and course design….
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Successful Group Work: 13 Activities to Teach Teamwork Skills
Have you been looking for ways to get everyone in your class involved and motivated? Maybe you have a project planned and need to bring the students together as a team, or simply want each member of the class or group to contribute, communicate with each other, listen to, trust and respect one another. The…
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Brainstorming
This e-book aims to provide teachers and educators with original go-to brainstorming activities that could be used to challenge and motivate students. We’ve all encountered situations when we’ve planned a group task only to discover that our students have no idea how to start up a conversation. This situation often occurs in group projects or…
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THE IMAGE in English Language Teaching
What role do images play in your teaching and learning contexts and how do you use them with students? Do they play an integral role in assisting students to improve their language and visual literacy skills or are they just a visual support? The Image, is a compilation of contributions from diverse authors who are either…
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The Great Verb Game
The Great Verb Game comes in an attractive and sturdy box and contains 100 verb cards, three collapsible dice for tense,personal pronouns and sentence type, a teachers’ booklet and a verb table, and is a great resource for young learners of English levels A2-B1. Oleink has also produced this game in several other languages, so all the…
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The Business English Teacher: Professional Principles and Practical Procedures
Writing in the Guardian about the “behemoth” English language taking over the planet, Jakob Mikanowski (2018), said, “In the not-too-distant future, thanks to English, the curse of Babel will be undone and the children of men may come together once again, united with the aid of a common tongue.” He’s a native Polish speaker, so this…
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Straight to Advanced “Teacher’s Book Premium Pack” with CDs
Straight to Advanced has a clearly defined purpose: that of preparing students for The Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam. It is an intensive, one-semester course. The pack is composed of a Students’ book, and the Teacher’s book, both of which provide access codes to a rich online resource center. The fact that CAE covers the four…
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Real Business English Coursebooks B2
The Real Business English set of books was created for “REAL companies with the input from REAL international companies” (Buller & Vetter-M’Caw, 2018, p. 5), with the aim of raising student’s Business English comprehension to a CEFR-level B2. The authors’ stated main focus of these coursebooks is communication and as such grammar is only briefly covered. Activities…
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Keynote Intermediate
The Keynote series, which recently won a British Council ELTons Award for excellence in course innovation, is aimed at working adults and young adults in higher education. The Intermediate course is made up of the Student’s Book, the Workbook, and a very comprehensive Teacher’s Book. According to the authors, approximately 90 to 120 hours of work is…
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Podcasting and Professional Development: A Guide for English Language Teachers
Podcasting and Professional Development is a booklet of () pages for teachers who are considering using podcasts for professional development. It is divided into four chapters: the first one tells the story of the writers’ association with podcasts; the second one is devoted to professional development of English teachers; the third one focuses on podcasting…
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Swiss History in a Nutshell
While teaching a group of apprentices, I mentioned that I couldn’t remember the specifics of why Switzerland was neutral and when this occurred. There was silence and I mentioned I knew there was an awful battle where the Swiss lost many lives. This was the Battle of Marignano which was fought in 1515 and was…
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Putting CLIL into Practice, Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
Implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in the European context has been successful in the past decade and has flourished also owing to recent boom in publications, one of which is the excellent, comprehensive, and exhaustive Putting CLIL into Practice which blends methodology, theory, and practise. It is a much-awaited publication which newly formulates the…
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Understanding English as a Lingua Franca
Following the creation of VOICE (Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English), a database with samples of English non-native speaking users in different contexts, Seidlhofer publishes Understanding English as a Lingua Franca to present her insights based on years of research. The book offers not only a literary review of what has been researched on the theme of English as…