Fun, simple activities which teachers can use with students to practise vocabulary. Covers a wide range of vocabulary topics and is ideal for presenting and practising vocabulary. Activities include crosswords, logic problems, personality tests, quizzes, word searches and board games, and can be used for self-study or homework, as well as supplementing course work.

This book: -Expert advice on developing your instincts and mining comic gold from everyday life, -Professional exercises to help you practice your craft and get the laughs every time, -Insider tips on writing jokes, cartoons, film scripts, sitcom treatments, and more.

A new The Good Grammar practice book by Oxford Educational Press for elementary to lower-intermediate students of English.

The Elements of Style, seemed to me to contain rich deposits of gold. It was Will Strunk’s parvum opus, his attempt to cut the vast tangle of English rhetoric down to size and write its rules and principles on the head of a pin. Will himself had hung the tag “little” on the book; he referred to it sardonically and with secret pride as “the I/tile book,” always giving the word “little” a special twist, as though he were putting a spin on a ball. In its original form, it was a forty-three page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English.

Recent trends in ESL/EFL curriculum design and pedagogy have stressed the importance of teaching communicative strategies and the functional use of language. Speaking Naturally is designed to do just that: teach students how to perform certain language functions in English by presenting the social rules for language use.

Because native speakers acquire these rules as part of growing up, they do not need to make conscious reference to them as adults. Second language learners, however, need information about sociolinguistic rules that may differ from those in their own culture.

Can you spare 15 minutes a day for 30 days? If so, Junior Skill Builders: Reading in 15 Minutes a Day can help you improve your reading comprehension skills. Just what is reading comprehension? Here’s a clue: Understanding is a synonym for comprehension. So, as I’m sure you figured out, reading comprehension means, ‘understanding what you read.” Not everyone does, you know. If you ask some people to tell you about a book or article they read, they often say, “I’m not really sure I didn’t get it!” Well, this book will help you definitely “get it” every time you read, whether it’s an ad or a full-length novel!

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection which is linked to a relevant comprehension skill activity.

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection which is linked to a relevant comprehension skill activity.

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection which is linked to a relevant comprehension skill activity.

This resource book is designed to be used alongside the natural English elementary student’s book to give students at this level extra reading and writing practice. However, the materials are freestanding and can be used in any order as a dip-in resource tot the teacher.

The materials and tasks have been chosen [or the general English user who wants to improve their reading and writing skills and also for the student using English [or their studies or for work purposes. It also covers skills useful for public such as KET, PET or BEC.