This dictionary is intended for: 1) students taking undergraduate or graduate courses in language teaching or applied linguistics, particularly those planning to take up a career in the teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language or in foreign language teaching, 2) language teachers doing in-service or pre-service courses, such as the UCLES Diploma in Teaching English to Adults, 3) students doing introductory courses in linguistics and related areas

«The How to... series is written by teachers and teacher trainers, people who know the reality of the classroom and the support teachers need to get the most out of their students. Our aim is to build teachers' confidence, knowledge and classroom abilities - and inspire them to try out new ideas»

English Grammar Tests will help you learn new phrases, idioms, expressions and English grammar structures every single day. And you won't even have to cram any grammar rules or vocabulary words into your head! Instead, you will be absorbing bits and pieces of the English language almost without realizing it.

Everyone has to be a listener sometimes; at lectures, presentations, meetings, and on the telephone, we spend a lot of our time listening to others talking. We all know, then, that the average standard of spoken presentation is poor. We are often bored, irritated, even embarrassed as listeners; rarely are we captivated, or filled with new enthusiasm for a topic and with respect for the speaker. I suppose most people when they suffer an appalling presentation vow that when their turn comes they will do better.

The puzzles in this book are for young learners between 7 to 10 years. They are easy to use, and have a number of aims: Puzzles are fun. They are graphic, attractive and enjoyable challenge to complete. Pupils enjoy being able to complete a puzzle in another language. Pupils benefit from developing their own skills and strategies for learning. When young learners are completing one of these puzzles, they are discovering their strengths and weaknesses in English. They are finding gaps in their knowledge, and developing and using skills to fill those gaps.

Teaching English to Children is a valuable resource book for anyone teaching English to young learners. It is full of ideas and activities which can be adapted for use with children of any age and it gives much practical advice on the planning of lessons and the organisation of the classroom.

This book is intended to help teachers who find themselves in a similar teaching dilemma. It shows the ways in which several teachers and I have implemented vocabulary practices that move away from decontextualized, single definitions and toward a concept-based, multilayered knowledge of words. The strategies shared here are consistent with research on how we learn new words, connect them to our existing knowledge, and retrieve them when we want to use them in reading, writing, and speaking.

Elementary Listening contains 36 communicative worksheets based around listening graded at elementary level. Each self-contained lesson includes pre-listening, while listening and post-listening tasks to ensure full exploitation and understanding of each recording. Worksheets can be selected by structure, discussion topic or literature and will act as a useful supplement to any elementary coursebook. Answers are included in the Teacher’s Notes.

Vocabulary Games and Activities 2 forms part of the Penguin series of books for teachers and contains sixty activities for practising and revising vocabulary. These games and activities range in level from elementary to advanced and include a wide variety of different exercise types: bingo activities, matching pair activities, crosswords, dominoes, quizzes, word grouping activities, word mazes, logical problems, etc.

Successful Writing Proficiency provides a thorough preparation for the different types of writing necessary for students at advanced levels. The book focuses on the needs of students wishing to sit the Cambridge CAE and CPE examinations as well as any other examinations at similarly advanced level and prepares students to write all types of composition, including descriptive, discursive, narrative, reports, articles, letters, transactional letters and reviews.