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Paperback. Condizione: New. Freewriting helps motivate students to develop clearer and more confident writing. More Thoughts contains 87 writing tasks, each with a brief, open-ended written prompt and a colorful, evocative illustration. All the student has to do is fill the pages with words, sentences, and thoughts -- all without fear of a grade or lots of red marks. A sampling of prompts: What scared you at night when you were little? If you had a robot, what would you want it to do for you? What are five things you want to do before you die? Choose one and explain why. For each page/prompt, there is a small space for the teacher to write a brief response - e.g., "Is this true?" "What a beautiful scene!" "Very funny!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Jackie Blencowe; Patrick R. Moran (illustratore). This book includes six types of photocopiable games for students studying Spanish. Gives practice in vocabulary building, sentence/paragraph structure, pronunciation and spelling, questioning, and conversation - a great plug-and-play resource for busy Spanish teachers!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Living in the United States is a cultural orientation handbook.Section 1 includes basic survival information with topics such as money, food, drinking, and health. Section 2deals with US culture and values, and Section 3 focuses on US geography, history, environment, and technology.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Rainbow Cougar Edwards, Ken (illustratore). This book features 48 full-color animal story cards -- beautifully illustrated by Ken Rainbow Cougar Edwards -- with folktales collected from various Indian tribes across North America. Each page of the book includes four cards, which can be cut out along the dotted lines or simply left in the book. Some examples from this interesting collection of tales are "How Chipmunk got her stripes" and "Why dogs don't talk." These stories (100-200 words each) make for great quick-hitting classroom activities: they can be used for retelling, for class or group discussion, or for exemplifying or identifying language features.

Paperback. Condizione: New. English Interplay is a multi-skills ESL/EFL text featuring fun, interactive lessons for adult beginners who need to survive in an English speaking world. The book focuses on numbers, the alphabet, and spelling, as well as speaking, listening, reading and writing, and basic essential everyday words.

Paperback. Condizione: New. T.D. Whistler; A. Mario Fantini (illustratore). 3rd. Do As I Say is a photocopiable collection of three kinds of sequential activities; operations (manipulating equipment), procedures (predictable series of steps) and rituals (predictable conversational language used to talk about these activities). Students acquire vocabulary and grammatical features, which are specifically outlined in the teaching notes in the back of the book, through learning by doing. This book epitomizes "active learning"!

Paperback. Condizione: New. 1st. This handbook helps international educators understand the experience of teaching in the US. There's a description of the educational system and practices as well as a chapter on how to interact appropriately with other teachers, supervisors, and administrators.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Dragons without Eyes features 25 famous Chinese folktales presented as one-page reading passages. Each includes a list of key vocabulary that students can use to re-tell the story, a dictation exercise to help with speaking/listening accuracy, and discussion questions.There is a downloadable audio program available for Dragons without Eyes as well as a free photocopiable teacher's guide.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This is integrated-skills workbook companion to Pearls of Wisdom maximizes language learning and vocabulary development. It includes pre-listening activities and vocabulary exercises, as well as exercises to develop students' summarizing, speaking, and writing skills.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book of plays helps students understand, explore, and take part in American Holidays. There are 13 holiday plays in the book with pre-play activities to enrich the experience. Holidays include Independence Day, New Year's Day, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween and seven others. Each unit follows the same format: - An Introduction to the contemporary practices of the holiday - A Dictation (students listen and write as they prepare for the play) - An Introduction to the contemporary practices of the holiday - A Background Reading that provides more information about the play and an opportunity for students to practice reading comprehension skills - A Pronunciation section that prepares students for words and phrases which will appear in the play and may be new to them - A Matching exercise which helps students understand the meaning and use of the words they have pronounced and some of the words they will encounter in the play - An Illustrated Poster that helps the students anticipate the play and be better prepared to deal with it as they go through the script for the first time - The Playbill (students use it to decide who will have which parts in the play) - The Play (students read through it several times until they are familiar enough to do the presentation of the actual play).

Paperback. Condizione: New. Freewriting helps motivate students to develop clearer and more confident writing. My Thoughts contains74 writing tasks, each with a brief, open-ended written prompt and a colorful, evocative illustration. All the student has to do is fill the pages with words, sentences, and thoughts -- all without fear of a grade or lots of red marks. A sampling of prompts: How do you feel on a rainy day? Describe an adventure you would like to have. What is your favorite game? How do you play it? Why are people afraid of snakes? For each page/prompt, there is a small space for the teacher to write a brief response - e.g., "Is this true?" "What a beautiful scene!" "Very funny!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Living in the United States is a cultural orientation handbook.Section 1 includes basic survival information with topics such as money, food, drinking, and health. Section 2deals with US culture and values, and Section 3 focuses on US geography, history, environment, and technology.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Based on the game Concentration, Match It! features seven variations of the basic game and 83 sets of cards in this photocopiable book. Topics include numbers, time, irregular verbs and everyday topics such as families, housework, and health. Match It! is an essential book for any ESL teacher's shelf for plug-and-play classroom games.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Rainbow Cougar Edwards, Ken (illustratore). This book features 48 full-color animal story cards -- beautifully illustrated by Ken Rainbow Cougar Edwards -- with folktales collected from various Indian tribes across North America. Each page of the book includes four cards, which can be cut out along the dotted lines or simply left in the book. Some examples from this interesting collection of tales are "How Chipmunk got her stripes" and "Why dogs don't talk." These stories (100-200 words each) make for great quick-hitting classroom activities: they can be used for retelling, for class or group discussion, or for exemplifying or identifying language features.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Freewriting helps motivate students to develop clearer and more confident writing. More Thoughts contains 87 writing tasks, each with a brief, open-ended written prompt and a colorful, evocative illustration. All the student has to do is fill the pages with words, sentences, and thoughts -- all without fear of a grade or lots of red marks. A sampling of prompts: What scared you at night when you were little? If you had a robot, what would you want it to do for you? What are five things you want to do before you die? Choose one and explain why. For each page/prompt, there is a small space for the teacher to write a brief response - e.g., "Is this true?" "What a beautiful scene!" "Very funny!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Surveys for Conversation features 64 photocopiable questionnaires that form the basis for truly interactive conversations about topics students care about, such as dating, friendship, music, pets, etc. For each topic, this no-prep resource for teachers also includes notes on vocabulary challenges, extension prompts and activities, writing topics, and a list of helpful websites.

Hardback. Condizione: New. The 15 photocopiable games in this book make phonics and learning to read enjoyable. These fun games cover the full range of consonant and vowel sounds (and their associated common spellings). This is a flexible plug-and-play resource for any English language teacher.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The 24 photocopiable lessons in Potluck focus on words and phrases associated with preparing, serving, and eating food in the United States and Canada. They also examine the role of food in North American English culture and show sample menus and recipes. An (optional) downloadable audio program is available for Potluck.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Dragons without Eyes features 25 famous Chinese folktales presented as one-page reading passages. Each includes a list of key vocabulary that students can use to re-tell the story, a dictation exercise to help with speaking/listening accuracy, and discussion questions.There is a downloadable audio program available for Dragons without Eyes as well as a free photocopiable teacher's guide.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mesa, Oscar (illustratore). TalkAbouts features 72 photocopiable pictures with few words offering infinite possibilities for conversations, dictations, descriptions, narrations, and discussions. There are three types of pictures: Situations, which stimulate conversations; Topics, which focus on vocabulary; and Events and Occasions, which focus on discourse.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This photocopiable book's 14 units explore the form, meaning, and use of the modal verb system in semantic categories such as Modals of Ability (can, be able to, could) and Modals of Prohibition (mustn't, can't, couldn't). These forms are presented and taught through engaging readings and exercises, many of which take the reader along on journeys to countries around the word, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, and many others. The Modal Book is a flexible resource that can be used as a core text for teaching modals or as a supplement from which pertinent individual lessons may be photocopied for specific lesson plans.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This photocopiable book teaches English students the essential words, especially adjectives, necessary for the important skill of describing the qualities and characteristics of human beings. Students develop this vocabulary systematically and in a fun and enjoyable way. An (optional) downloadable audio program is available for The Zodiac.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book contains 16 photocopiable lessons focusing on vocabulary we use to deal with money. Readings relate borrowing, saving, earning, investing , insurance, taxes, credit cards, and other topics. An (optional) downloadable audio program is available for Money.

Paperback. Condizione: New. English Interplay is a multi-skills ESL/EFL text featuring fun, interactive lessons for adult beginners who need to survive in an English speaking world. The book focuses on numbers, the alphabet, and spelling, as well as speaking, listening, reading and writing, and basic essential everyday words.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This plug-and-play teacher resource features six types of photocopiable writing activities, including Writing to Remember, Writing with the Five Senses, Writing Around the Holidays, Writing with Imagination, Writing for Pairs and Groups, and Writing Poetry. These activities engage the students and encourage creativity.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Where in the World. is a low-level integrated-skills text. Students travel around the world with their class joining the adventures of Igor as he visits 30 great places. The linguistic content includes vocabulary development, pronunciation, and basic grammar, including emphasis on WH questions. A downloadable audio program is available for Where in the World.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book focuses on American heroes whose life struggles made a significant contribution to American culture that is still relevant today. Each reading includes illustrations, warm-up questions, comprehension questions, and a range of other post-reading language exercises and activities. Celebrating American Heroes, a book of plays, is a companion volume to this book.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Freewriting helps motivate students to develop clearer and more confident writing. My Thoughts contains74 writing tasks, each with a brief, open-ended written prompt and a colorful, evocative illustration. All the student has to do is fill the pages with words, sentences, and thoughts -- all without fear of a grade or lots of red marks. A sampling of prompts: How do you feel on a rainy day? Describe an adventure you would like to have. What is your favorite game? How do you play it? Why are people afraid of snakes? For each page/prompt, there is a small space for the teacher to write a brief response - e.g., "Is this true?" "What a beautiful scene!" "Very funny!

Paperback. Condizione: New. Conversation strategies are techniques that help the speaker and listener keep a conversation going to its natural and desired conclusion. These skills supplement the linguistic and sociolinguistic skills most texts focus on: grammar, vocabulary, and usage. However, to develop strategic competence, students must learn the words, phrases, and conventions used as two speakers engage in the active give-and-take of conversation. The strategies practiced in this book include 1) getting more information, 2) making comparisons, 3) correcting someone politely, 4) agreeing and disagreeing, 5) summarizing, 6) sharing information, and 7) making decisions. Students also practice 1) polite forms, 2) rejoinders, 3) clarifications, 4) follow-up questions, 5) getting a response, 6) expressing probability, 7) interrupting, and 8) avoiding conversation killers. The 29 pair and group activities help develop communicative competence. These fun, student-centered activities begin with controlled language and move to open, imaginative exchanges.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Ask and Task provides meaningful multi-skills learning, interaction, and practice opportunities ESL/EFL classrooms. The book is based around photocopiable cards: two to four pages of Question Cards and one page of Task Cards for each of the 40 topics. The Question Cards are to prompt thought and conversation; the Task Cards are to promote language use while accomplishing some kind of project. The cards can be used in pairs or small groups. Students can present and debate various answers to the questions, or the questions may be used for vocabulary and writing practice. Some of the topics covered are dating/marriage, sports, business, family, environment/ecology, gender/sex, and health. The questions, themselves are interesting and designed to elicit opinions and cross-cultural information from the students. Some examples of Question Cards: Would you want to employ your family in your business? How long would you work at a job before asking for a raise? What is the most important quality in a potential mate? Some examples of Task Cards: Write your resume. Create a new company with a brand-new product line. In small groups, brainstorm the many kinds of love.