This month you will find plenty of materials and ideas to develop your students’ vocabulary and oral and writing skills. The activities presented, aimed at different ages and levels, as well as the posters were especially designed to foster description and enlarge vocabulary. Besides, suggestions on how to make Power Point presentations to make your classes more appealing and updated and an article on how to deal with learning disabilities complete this issue.
Business Communication Games 36 photocopiable games providing excellent Business fluency practice for students of Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate level.
How can it be used? As a supplement to, and consolidation of, work with an intermediate-level coursebook. In large classes, small groups, and even one-to-one teaching. In both monolingual and multilingual classes. Who is it for? In-service learners. Pre-experience students.
Unveils the implications and consequences of teaching phonics via a systematic direct intense program that mandates all children to experience the same scripted lesson at the same time.
Richard Meyer accurately describes what a scripted reading classroom looks like. I have observed in classes like his, and they follow the same format. Meyer points out the dangers of this type of teaching, which eliminates creativity, individuality, and diversity on the part of the teachers and students. Students may learn the skills of reading in these classes, but they do not learn independent or critical thinking strategies. Meyer rightly points out the dangers of scripted instructional programs and the politicians who mandate them.
If you have been searching for reading materials that are both interesting and accessible to beginning adult and teen readers, look no further. Rosow builds this annotated bibliography of high-interest, low-reading-level fiction and nonfiction materials around themes that appeal to adults. She covers a variety of resources, from books and chapters of books to magazine articles and letters, organizing them from easier to more difficult reading levels to help readers progress with their reading. Dozens of dialogue and writing activities are suggested for each subject area. Most can be used with any size group, from one-on-one tutoring situations to large multiethnic classes of students with a range of reading and writing abilities. Perfect for adult and family literacy programs, ESL students, teen remedial reading classes, and readers' advisory, this book is a great tool for motivating and empowering students to read.
Various flashcards sets that may be adopted in ESL teaching classes.
