This text helps students understand and use 100 high-frequency American idioms in various grammatical and situational contexts.
-- Twenty self-contained lessons move from highly controlled to less-controlled use of idioms.
-- Provides intensive practice in exercises designed for fluency attainment as well as comprehension.
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Each lesson features a seven-part dialogue that introduces the idioms,
with usage notes, structure practice, and comprehension exercises.
Learning idioms is an essential element for English as a Second
Language students. This book not only contains an extensive list of
useful and commonly used idioms but, in contrast to others, includes
exercises with each lesson helping ensure that the material is
remembered.
Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare.
Mainly about resolving conflicts and influencing people, this useful guide covers every conceivable aspect of talking with others. People hear facts and stories and turn them into shared knowledge when they're not attacked or overpowered--in other words, when they feel safe. No mushy mental health lesson, the program does a stellar job of explaining many types of communication errors and describing the best ways to achieve mutual purpose. The authors have exceptional ideas about moving toward healthy solutions in a variety of business and personal realms. Anna Fields gives a perfect reading--emotionally bright but still allowing the lesson to retain its practical, straight-talking nature.
Teaching should be exciting and creative but an overcrowded curriculum
can make this hard for teachers to achieve. Help is at hand with these
literacy and numeracy lesson plans that also cover language
development, thinking skills, and drama. Thinking it Through allows
teachers to customize lesson plans to meet their own needs using the
book's accompanying CD as well as assess pupils language abilty with
handy photocopiable assessment worksheets. The book will help each
child reach their full potential regardless of ability using ideas for
differentiation and extension and structure lessons according to
national curriculum objectives.
Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Real Estate Investing An excellent example of the helpful financial audios produced by Robert
Kiyosaki's Rich Dad company, Garrett Sutton's can-do lesson is an
excellent lesson on how to rise above debt. He provides a largely
sympathetic lesson on why people dig such holes for themselves and why
creditors let them. The information is nicely condensed and includes
illustrations that people at all intellectual levels will connect with.
The writing and the matter-of-fact reading are proactive--he doesn't
celebrate or condemn anyone's goofy money decisions. Know yourself, get
your attitudes and behavior under control, and then use the author's
formulas and action steps to wrestle your credit report, account by
account, back into something respectable
This photocopiable resource is packed with a range of ready-to-use IELTS exam practice activities. The lively discussions and role plays that accompany them turn each IELTS task-type into a stimulating lesson. The book is organised by paper type, giving teachers a flexible resource that they can tailor to their students' specific needs.
