The activities enable students to improve their understanding and use of English grammar.

Shows how teachers can 'tune in' to students and use their musical interests to enhance their learning.

Goes beyond exercises based on a description of the phonemic system by coming to grips with the underlying reasons why learners fail to achieve good pronunciation.

Builds students' confidence by encouraging a holistic approach. It includes activities to improve rhythm, stress, and intonation as well as individual sounds.

Offers a focal point in lessons integrating the four skills. Gives experienced teachers fresh ideas, and less experienced teachers lots of practical support.

Explores the problems teachers have managing groups, and suggests various strategies which can be used to lead groups more effectively. Examines the characteristics of a successful group. Provides over a hundred activities designed to foster a cohesive and supportive group atmosphere. Provides activities suitable for classes of all levels of general or specialized English courses.

The book provides seventy language practice activities which use the wealth of knowledge, experience, and expertise that learners bring with them to the classroom. The activities can be used to supplement a coursebook or to form the basis of an entire teaching programme. The areas covered include grammar, vocabulary, and examination practice. Teachers working in conditions where there is limited access to published materials will find the book especially helpful.

Includes stimulating topic areas for language practice, such as cultural achievements, cultural artefacts, and culturally-influenced beliefs, perceptions, and behaviour. Helps learners of English to understand English-speaking cultures, but also raises learners' awareness of their own and each others' cultures.

The book is based on the principle that English lessons form an integral part of a young learner's whole education, and that the teacher has a wider responsibility than the simple teaching of the language system. Practical ideas are provided for a wide variety of language practice activities, including art and crafts, drama, games, storytelling and songs. There are helpful hints for teachers new to young learners (age 6-12 years).

Offers a wide variety of original ideas and activities for helping children to tell and write stories in English. Encourages creativity, confidence, and fluency and accuracy in spoken and written English, as well as teaching creative writing skills. Includes numerous photocopiable worksheets and 'easy-to-draw' pictures by the author.

Provides ideas and advice for teachers who are asked to teach English to very young children (3-6 years). Offers a wide variety of activities such as games, songs, drama, stories, and art and craft, all of which follow sound educational principles. Includes numerous photocopiable pages.

Helps students develop the type of social and interactive skills used by real-life listeners, as well as language skills to enable them to process and understand what they hear. Involves learners in the creation and choice of listening materials. Shows how to exploit both published and authentic listening materials to the full. Includes a guide to making recordings.

This book offers ideas on how dictionaries can be used to encourage reading while developing memory skills.

Provides practical ideas for introducing drama activities into the English class, including mime, chants, puppets, role play, and short plays. Shows how the use of drama can improve both speaking and pronunciation, and can also help children to develop self-confidence and express their imagination, personalities and creativity. Demonstrates how activities can be integrated into day-to-day teaching, as well as providing inspiration for performances at open days or end-of-term shows.

Contains practical, tried-and-tested ideas and materials for planning, organizing, and carrying out project work with children aged between 5 and 13. This work combines language and skills development with activities which challenge young learners and motivate them to be independent.

Gives detailed examples of classroom activities that exploit these opportunities, including searching on the Web, evaluating Web pages, creating language learning material, and communicating using the Internet.

A fresh and enjoyable collection of games for children aged between 4 and 11, including card games, board games, physical games, and co-operative and competitive games. Gives helpful guidance for teachers on integrating games into the English syllabus, classroom management, adapting traditional games, and creating new games with children.

Fully updated and revised, with projects which have been designed and tested by teachers from all over the world. Activities can be used with a wide range of levels and age groups. They need a minimum of preparation and each activity is explained in full - the aims, resources, preparation and implementation, and feedback. The projects vary in length between 3 hours and 20 weeks, and they have satisfying outcomes for students and improve their overall communicative ability. Tasks give participants the chance to improve their competence in the four skills as well as in useful areas such as giving presentations, making a video, and producing reports and articles.

Includes ideas on how to integrate film into a general course and how to set up film projects. Contains a glossary of helpful terms. No previous film knowledge is required.

Over 100 classroom activities. Will encourage students to actually do their homework! Encourages learning outside the classroom.

Offers guidance on introducing and developing writing skills with young learners. Teaches the Roman alphabet, letter shapes and names, and word recognition. Provides a framework for developing writing skills at word, sentence, and text level. Encourages the idea that words can be used creatively and that writing can be fun. Provides opportunities for children to practise a wide range of writing skills.

Art, craft, and design activities offer children an excellent way to learn language while developing creative skills and an awareness of the world around them. This book provides a wealth of creative, imaginative activities with integrated language practice. The activities can be done with the minimum of resources, and do not need special artistic expertise on the part of the teacher.

This book combines web search and web creation activities plus ideas on how to communicate with classes around the world.

118 classroom activities. Four new sections including new developments such as collocations, the mother tongue, and lexis as a system. Favourites from the original edition have been updated with new texts and examples.

Demonstrates ways to create contexts and audiences for classroom writing. Shows students how the style of writing differs according to purpose and audience. Presents a range of techniques for encouraging good pre-writing and drafting strategies. Helps learners to develop paragraphs coherently, to use cohesive devices, to use a range of sentence structures, and to develop appropriate vocabulary. Involves students in reviewing their work, revising it, and editing the final draft.

Wide range of techniques develops teachers' skills. Over 60 generic activities encourage variety in class. Fully-adaptable activities offer plenty of new ideas for experienced teachers. Ready-made lessons provide extra support for new or trainee teachers.

Provides an incentive for learners to write, edit, and reformulate their writing. Encourages learners to read more appreciatively. Encourages the development of critical, evaluative, and analytical abilities which can be transferred to other subjects.

Advice on teenagers' characteristics. Classroom management tips. Over 70 motivating classroom activities.

Over 80 generic classroom activities. Needs analysis helps teachers design a course that covers what students need for their working environment. Adaptable activities are transferable across different vocations. Suitable for teachers, teacher trainers, and new teachers.

Images demonstrates how virtually any text-based activity can be enhanced through the use of images.Images argues that words and images are inseparable, and shows how images can be used to support the teaching of productive and receptive language skills, grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and more. Includes 61 activities and 35 original images. Examines the possibilities for using a wide range of original images and resources including art, photography, advertising, the Internet, and student-generated images.

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has attracted great interest in recent years, especially in Europe but increasingly more widely in the world. This book provides practical, classroom-tested activities that can be used when teaching any subject. Over 60 activities, each using a demo subject, which can be adapted to suit a variety of subjects and circumstances. Ideas to support the subject text book and reduce the language obstacle for teachers and learners. Appendix of classroom language for non-native speaker teachers.

Designed to enliven English classes through drama activities and activate students' imagination and creativity.

A fully-revised edition of a popular Resource Book, with many new ideas and stories. Stories are an ideal way of motivating children, improving listening skills, and teaching vocabulary and structures. Stories develop awareness of the sound and feel of English, and an understanding of language in context.

Ready-made, enjoyable grammar activities to supplement coursebooks. Strengthens grammatical accuracy in a fun and purposeful way. Activities focus on key grammatical points for young learners and align with the CEF. Contents organized by communicative goal (e.g. talking about the past), cross-referenced to grammar teaching point (e.g. past simple). Includes activities for different learning styles. Promotes critical and creative thinking skills and language awareness. Photocopiable worksheets for many of the activities.

Mixed-Ability Teaching is designed to support teachers working with mixed-ability English language groups.