This is part of an upper intermediate course for teenagers. Students gain expertise in all four language skills to prepare them for First Certificate, and the constant testing and practice opportunities are designed to provide a thorough grounding in grammar and skills. Features of the course include: a variety of reading tests designed to appeal to teenagers; storylines with teenage characters, which aim to encourage reading for pleasure and discussion; a balanced writing syllabus to build up process writing skills; pronunciation hotspots to tackle stress and intonation; and grammar boxes designed to revise, consolidate and extend students' knowledge.
Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project
Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.
Writing Around the World: A Guide To Writing Across Cultures
Cultures use different writing strategies because they strive for different goals. Some cultures rely on writer responsibility while other cultures rely on reader responsibility. Writer responsibility emphasizes clear and concise prose, actions over subjects, practical implications, and follows a deductive logical structure. The latter emphasizes flowery prose, subjects instead of actions, theoretical implications, and follows an inductive logical structure. The differences between both responsibilities help explain why some cultures prefer clarity when other cultures prefer complexity. The problem is that both writing styles are perfectly acceptable, but only within their given context.
Ridley unravels the hidden motives behind who and how we desire. Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. This famous book is considered a landmark in popular science writing.
These desktop flipcharts offer student activities for learning centres and workstations. They are designed to support instructional objectives in Reading, Writing, Word Study, and Science/Social Studies in fourth grade.
