Conversation in Action - Let's Talk

Title: Conversation in Action - Let's Talk
Author(s): Edward R. Rosset
Publisher: Stanley
ISBN: 8478733264
Date: 2001
Pages: 112
Size: 10.81 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Conversation in action is a book designed for teachers. The 50 units that make up the book are the result of many years of experience in the area of languages. It tries to solve the problems of many teachers that have difficulties in making pupils speak in English. Others have a hard time in finding topics to speak about, without repeating themselves day after day. [+/-]

For one reason or other, the experience shows that teachers spend the whole class speaking, while pupils answer with monosyllables. This book provides the teacher with endless questions, besides interactive ideas; with this, an appropriate atmosphere is created for the students to express themselves in English.

The book is made up of 50 units; a different topic being worked out in each unit
There are 40 questions about each topic. An illustration and a text about which the pupils have to make questions and answers as well as give explanations, complete the unit Couples or groups are made up to discuss, to comment about assertions and to decide whether some things are true or false.

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Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers

Title: Online Intercultural Exchange: An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers
Author(s): Robert O’Dowd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
ISBN: 9781847690081
Date: 2007
Pages: 305
Size: 1.92 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This volume provides an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging language learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures through the use of online communication technology. The chapters look at how online collaboration can be successfully integrated into the foreign language classroom and how it can contribute to the development of students' intercultural communicative competence.

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At Your Service: SB + WB + TB

Title: At Your Service: Student's Book, Workbook and Teacher's Book
Author(s): Trish Stott and Angela Buckingham
Date: 1995
Pages: 97 + 48 + 66
Size: 106 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good
Language: American English

At your service English for travel and Tourist Industry - this course is for people training to work in hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, tourisy information centres, and airports, in any jobs where basic communicative competence in English is essential. [+/-]

Contents:
1. May I introduce myself?
2. What do you do?
3. What time does the next train leave?
4. What kind of room would you like?
5. Don't leave your bags on the bus.
6. Is there a bank near here?
7. Who's calling please?
8. Would you like a window seat?
9. How was your day?
10. Are you ready to order?
11. How will you be paying?
12. We'll meet back here at three o'clock.
13. Why don't you take the city bus tour?
14. Shall I send you a brouchure?
15. I look forward to hearing from you

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Learning Through Practice

Title: Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches (Professional and Practice-based Learning)
Author(s): Stephen Billett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789048139385
Date: 2010
Pages: 309
Size: 2.96 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

The book’s two sections first explore the conceptual foundations of learning through practice, and then provide detailed examples of its implementation. Long-standing practice-based approaches to learning have been used in many professions and trades. Indeed, admission to the trades and major professions (e.g. medicine, law, accountancy) can only be realised after completing extended periods of practice in authentic practice settings. [+/-]

However, the growing contemporary interest in using practice-based learning in more extensive contexts has arisen from concerns about the direct employability of graduates and the increasing focus on occupation-specific courses in both vocations and higher education.

It is an especially urgent issue in an era of critical skill shortages, rapidly transforming work requirements and an aging workforce combined with a looming shortage of new workforce entrants. We must better understand how existing models of practice-based learning are enacted in order to identify how they can be applied to different kinds of employment and workplaces. The contributions to this volume explore ways in which learning through practice can be conceptualised, enacted, and appraised through an analysis of the traditions, purposes, and processes that support this learning—including curriculum models and pedagogic practices.

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How to Teach English with Technology (eBook+CD-ROM)

Title: How to Teach English with Technology
Author(s): Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 978l405847735
Date: 2008
Pages: 194
Size: 388 Mb
Format: PDF + EXE
Quality: High
Language: British English

How to Teach English with Technology by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly offers a clear, comprehensive, confidence-building introduction to the use of technology in the language classroom.

The book includes:
• a CD-ROM with video tutorials about how to use Webquests, Skype, Blogger, RSS, Second Life etc.
• information on how to set up internet-based project work
• instructions on how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts etc.
• a guide to producing your own electronic materials

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Level 3: Romeo and Juliet

Title: Romeo and Juliet
Level: 3
Author(s): William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Readers
ISBN: 0582817021
Date: 2002
Pages: 65
Size: 17 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good, well-scanned, readable
Language: English

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare's beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago.

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Rich Man, Poor Man by T.C. Jupp

Title: Rich Man, Poor Man
Level: Beginner
Author(s): T.C. Jupp
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 0435271717
Date: N/A
Pages: 36
Size: 1.94 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good
Language: English

Adam's money order was for one hundred pounds. Suddenly he was a rich man!

"Go to the post office," said the school teacher. "The post office official will give you the money."

Adam went to the post office. But the official did not give him the money. Adam felt old and he felt poor again.

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