An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning – yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner.
This book is a practical language teachers’ guide that focuses on how to teach socially and culturally appropriate language for effective communication. Moving beyond a purely theoretical approach to pragmatics, the volume offers practical advice to teachers, with hands-on classroom tasks included in every chapter.
Star Players 3Star Players is an engaging six-level series for children learning English in Primary Schools. It exposes students to natural language, providing learners with varied and exciting opportunities to develop fluency and accuracy while fostering creativity. Star Players recognizes that each child is unique and the center of his/her own learning process. Using a variety of up-to-date and solid methodologies, Star Players guarantees that students will learn English while developing their own learning styles.
Art Through Childrens Literature: Creative Art Lessons for Caldecott Books
The award-winning illustrations of 57 Caldecott Books (1938-1994) have inspired a multitude of lessons that guide students in creating art with similar qualities. Focusing on such principles and elements as line, color, texture, shape, value, and space, these classroom-tested projects have step-by-step instructions, materials lists, and detailed illustrations for teachers who have little or no art training. Various art media are explored, including pencil, crayon, marker, colored pencil, chalk, stencils, collage, watercolor, tempera, color mixing, and printmaking. These projects use limited materials so they're great for the classroom as well as the art room.
Микроэлектроника: настоящее и будущее: Учебное пособие по английскому языку для технических вузов
Цель пособия - научить студентов технических вузов читать и переводить научно-техническую литературу по специальности, вести поиск нужной информации и уметь обобщать полученную и информацию. Помимо этого пособие призвано развивать навыки и умения устной речи в пределах представленной тематики. Пособие построено на аутентичных текстах, заимствованных из английских и американских источников. Задания и упражнения ориентиерованы на активное обучение английскому языку формирование понятийноrо аппарата по специальности.
Activate! A2, B1, B1+ and B2 is an exciting and intensive four-level exam preparation course tailored to meet the needs of your teenage students. Focusing on themes from teen culture brought to life with the inspiring video on the Active Book which is a digital interactive version of the Students' Book. Activate! offers an enjoyable and highly motivating exam preparation experience for a range of international exams. Activate! is also ideal preparation for KET for Schools, PET for Schools and the upcoming FCE for Schools.
