English for Me! Rainy Day Picnik
Grades Pre-K and K. Children love to listen to storybooks. Children see and hear the English they've learned come alive through storybook characters. Hearing and reading the storybooks will enhance the English they use in and outside of the classroom. Each of the nine storybooks has suggestions for before, during, and after reading the story as well as an activity specific to each book. The nine storybook themes correlate to the Balloons series, or can be used to supplement any program.
Good News, Bad News is a listening and conversation text based on an entertaining collection of actual news reports about interesting characters and events. Eighteen three-page units are presented in a radio news-story format. All units feature a series of task-based activities designed to guide students from general to detailed understanding of the news report and to provide meaningful fluency practice related to the story's theme.
Good News, Bad News features:
Short, focused units that can be completed in one class period
Interesting, light-hearted listening passages based on actual stories from the news
Vocabulary-building exercises that introduce and practice new vocabulary
A wide variety of communicative, task-based listening and speaking activities
An optional "Extra Practice" section to consolidate new vocabulary
Each unit offers:
"Tuning In," a visual activity designed to introduce the context of the story. It offers a vocabulary building exercise to identify and teach the new language contained in the listening passage.
"Good News, Bad News," a series of task-based listening activities that leads students from general to detailed understanding of the story
"Signing Off," communicative speaking tasks that build on the theme of the story and provides opportunities for student personalization
"Extra Practice" activities to consolidate the new vocabulary in each unit
One of the most widely used teaching theory books. Recommended for all TEFL/TESL teachers.
This third edition has been completely rewritten and updated to combine the best of traditional approaches with the latest developments in language teaching theory and methodology.
The Third Edition of this "classic" text incorporates a broader and more detailed analysis of issues relevant to language teachers. "The Practice of English Language Teaching" is full of practical suggestions and samples from actual teaching materials.
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
What
pieces of a distant past drift before our mind's eye when ancient
Mesopotamia is mentioned?
Do we see the temples known as ziggurats, thrust toward the sky by
stepped platforms that would bring worshippers closer to the gods they
honored? Entire populations paralyzed by fear before a dreaded invader,
their dreams haunted by images of their own severed heads held aloft?
Priests making sacrifices to the gods who ruled over and protected
their city? Or the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, their terraces as
shadowed by mystery as they are set alight by color?
Any of these, of course, may come to mind. Perhaps all of them. And
with the exception of Babylon's fabled gardens, whose existence has
never actually been confirmed, they are all true—each
a part of the legacy of a region from which our own culture has drawn
so many essential aspects, including writing, the first code of law,
the idea of cities, and even the first epic poem. All cultures lie in
the shadow of Mesopotamia.
Good News, Bad News
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
