Improving Your Study Skills
Sports, extracurricular activities, your job, hangin’ with friends—you have a life! You simply don’t have time to spend hours studying every day! Improving Your Study Skills helps you really get cracking when you do crack the books. It helps you cram a lot of learning into a little time with special tips
Propell™ Workshop CD-ROM for TOEFL® iBT (CD only!) This is the resource used in the Propell Introductory iBT workshop. This Propell workshop kit includes a number of integrated tools to help you teach your students the communicative English skills they need to succeed in both academic environments and on the TOEFL iBT.
Recipes for Tired Teachers Lesson Ideas for Classroom Use with minimal preparation This resource book will be useful for teachers looking for new ideas to teach a variety of skills. This is an overall great "idea" book for the ESL classroom.It is
basically a book of activities for each different aspect of language
teaching. It devotes entire units to more difficult-to-teach topics
such as developing listening skills. Most of the activities are
extremely interactional and would enhance student's communicative
abilities, either directly or indirectly. This book is a great resource
for finding just the right activity for your lesson plan. All
activities are also easily adaptable for level and for subject area.
The second book in this series, "More Recipes for Tired Teachers" is available on Englishtips.
Concrete Mathematics
This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer
programming and the analysis of algorithms. The primary aim of its
well-known authors is to provide a solid and relevant base of
mathematical skills - the skills needed to solve complex problems, to
evaluate horrendous sums, and to discover subtle patterns in data. It
is an indispensable text and reference not only for computer scientists
- the authors themselves rely heavily on it! - but for serious users of
mathematics in virtually every discipline.
Pen to Paper is primarily intended for teenagers and young adults, but has also proved successful with older students. It consits of twelve units, each with a minumum of two hours' work. Its main objective is to develop the writing skills and develops a wider range of vocabulary.
