Written by Chris Curtis, How to Teach: English: Novels, non-fiction and their artful navigation is jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for students – and to make it fun too! Never underestimate your duty and power as a teacher of English. English teachers help students to think and feel. They prompt them to reflect on their actions. They hold a mirror to society and inspire students to see how they can make it better.
One Hundred Minutes to Better Basic Skills Now there's a way for students to practice their grammar skills, enhance their overall grammar proficiency, and have fun at the same time! This book features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 grammar questions for students to complete within a short time period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own grammar proficiency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, time format, combines with instant feedback, makes this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day.
Sunburst aims towards communicative interaction using the language as a cognitive and refl exive tool. At the end of this cycle, your students will be able to express and exchange ideas, talk about themselves and their emotions, give information about others, build up knowledge, organize their thoughts, and refl ect on the new language. Here you will fi nd suggestions on how to work each of the activities provided in 10 units. Reading skills will also be developed with activities designed for the Reader.
Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams - they want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes. But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.
Big Teens is an exciting, three-level series written specifically for adolescents who have already studied English in their elementary school years and who need to increase their command of the language. The series is based on communicative, constructivist language acquisition process, featuring songs, chants, social practices, strategies, cooperative learning, self-assessment, and hands-on projects. Big Teens contains discovery activities and additional contextualized practice activities to help facilitate students constructing the language.
