Teaching should be exciting and creative but an overcrowded curriculum can make this hard for teachers to achieve. Help is at hand with these literacy and numeracy lesson plans that also cover language development, thinking skills, and drama. Thinking it Through allows teachers to customize lesson plans to meet their own needs using the book's accompanying CD as well as assess pupils language abilty with handy photocopiable assessment worksheets. The book will help each child reach their full potential regardless of ability using ideas for differentiation and extension and structure lessons according to national curriculum objectives.

This book contains a motivating range of communicative activities based around authentic and semi-authentic listenings for Intermediate to Advanced level students.

Topics range from mobile phones, moral dilemmas and addictions to finding the perfect partner and football hooliganism. All activities are supported by comprehensive teaching notes with pre- and post-listening suggestions. Select the activity you require by topic, function and listening skill.

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The Developing Tactics for Listening Test Booklet is designed for unit-by-unit evaluation of students' mastery of the Student Book. (Midterm and final tests are available separately in Expanding Tactics for Listening Teacher's Book.) The tests may be given in a language laboratory or in a regular classroom with a CD player, and they are easily administered to large or small groups of students. Teachers may use the tests to assign grades or to identify areas where students need additional assistance. This test package includes photocopiable student test sheets, an answer key, and a tapescript of the tests. A CD on the inside back cover of the Test Booklet contains the recordings needed to administer the tests. The test items are based on the listening activities presented in the Student Book. To assess students' speaking ability, teachers may use the interviews, role plays, and other speaking activities in the Over to You sections of the Student Book.

"How To Teach So Students Remember" by Marilee Sprenger

When you teach a lesson, do your students remember the information the next day? The next week? Will they retain that information long enough to use it on a high-stakes test and, most importantly, will they retain it well enough to make use of it in their lives beyond school?

"How to Teach So Students Remember" offers seven steps to increase your students’ capacity to receive information in immediate memory, act on it in working memory, store it in long-term memory, and retrieve and manipulate it in unanticipated situations--that is, to use what they’ve learned when they need it.