Brimming with inspiration and ideas, this book is a basic how-to guide for new primary teachers and education students. The author provides a complete first-day plan, parent interaction strategies, and ideas for setting up learning centers and integrating seasonal activities. Written in a conversational style, the text is punctuated with amusing and poignant stories from the author's 32 years in primary classrooms.
In a tone that brings to mind bubbly teenage girls, Jessica Peers recounts five years at a National Autistic Society residential school in the United Kingdom. The back cover of this book suggests that the book will give insights into Asperger's syndrome. On that point, it seems to be wrong. However, it does give a lot of insight into institutional life.
Peers has a talent for wryly amusing caricature, whether in drawing (her cartoons appear throughout the book) or in sketching out people's character in words. Not everything in the book is amusing, though. There are some truly harrowing scenes of physical and emotional abuse by staff, as well as the usual detached brusqueness that crops up in places like that. The funny descriptions offset the often-heavy situations enough to make it readable to us without causing too much pain, and one almost wonders if the author had the same idea herself.
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A pleasant, cosy style and thrilling adventures make books by L. Frank Baum really special. His imagination populated the land of Oz with amazingly unusual creatures and even whole peoples with very interesting habits. The stories are humorous, witty and action-packed. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is just the beginning of the series consisting of 14 books, each more amusing than the previous one. Besides, in this collection we included other as much fascinating stories by this author.
Welcome 2 Video Второй уровень обучающего видео-курса для детей.
Welcome Videos//DVDs use top quality animation to present the adventures of Masid, the genie, and his friends. They contain animations of the storyline followed in the course, as well as modelling the key structures necessary at each level. All the songs are fully animated and the words are shown on the screen. This amusing video/DVD production is highly entertaining and effective in stimulating students to use the English language. The videos/DVDs can be used for practice at home or in the classroom.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By Neil Postman (audiobook)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), is a controversial book by Neil Postman in which he argues that mediums of communication inherently influence the conversations carried out over them. Postman posits that television is the primary means of communication for our culture and it has the property of converting conversations into entertainment so much so that public discourse on important issues has disappeared. Since the treatment of serious issues as entertainment inherently prevents them from being treated as serious issues and indeed since serious issues have been treated as entertainment for so many decades now, the public is no longer aware of these issues in their original sense, but only as entertainment. ("Conversations" in the sense here of a culture communicating with itself).
