Timesaver Personality Quizzes is a book of quizzes and accompanying teacher’s notes specially designed for busy teachers involved with learners of English as a foreign language. Personality quizzes are invaluable to the teacher of a foreign language as they provide an opportunity for students to use their language skills in a less formal way and in a way that they can relate directly to themselves. They provide personalization in a ‘real’ context. Your students will be familiar with the format of personality quizzes in their own teenage magazines and they probably enjoy doing them in their own language.

All languages have phrases that cannot be understood literally and, therefore, cannot be used with confidence. They are opaque or unpredictable because they don’t have expected, literal meaning. Even if you know the meaning of all the words in a phrase and understand all the grammar of the phrase completely, the meaning of the phrase may still be confusing. A phrase or sentence of this type is said to be idiomatic. This dictionary is a collection of the idiomatic phrases and sentences that occur frequently in American English. Many of them occur in some fashion in other varieties of English also.

Mastering American English is a comprehensive exercise book for use with adult students at the intermediate and advanced levels of language learning. The text is divided into two sections. The exercises which comprise Part One, the Intermediate Section, make an effective and concise review of the fundamental language materials treated fully in Learning American English. Part Two, the Advanced Section, should accommodate extensive practice with those more complex features of English which demand of the student a good control over fundamentals.

English is a very complex language, but luckily there is a “users’ manual” dedicated to the rules of English, referred to as grammar and usage. This is a huge set of guidelines that helps clarify the multifaceted, dynamic parts of our language (maybe you have studied many of them already at school). Understanding the inner structure of sentences and writing doesn’t have to be mind numbing; it can be fun and challenging if you approach it with the right mind-set.

This handbook has been prepared for you as a supplement to regular classroom textbooks and as a handy reference throughout your high school career. It is your personal property. You are expected to keep it and to use it for your classes. For your convenience it has been punched to fit into your notebook. If it should be lost, you may be asked to buy a replacement copy from the textbook clerk.

This book provides intensive and enjoyable practice in features of English pronunciation that intermediate and more advanced students usually find difficult. The clever and convincing dialogues concentrate on stress timing, weak forms, contractions, linking and consonant clusters, as well as providing valuable intonation practice.

Quizzes, Questionnaires and Puzzles is a resource book containing materials for supplementary classroom work. There are 60 varied activities which offer you a convenient and flexible resource in the language classroom. The shorter activities are ideal as warmers or fillers, while longer activities can take a whole lesson. The activities are separated into three main types: quizzes, questionnaires and puzzles. There are clear, step-by-step instructions for you, and easy-to-prepare materials for the students. Many of the photocopiable materials can be stored and easily re-used.

A book at an even lower level, with very limited language, for almost total beginners. Games that were not too complex conceptually for beginners. Some support with the problem of how to set up and explain the games in language that beginners would understand. Games that were also suitable for younger learners.

Is there anyone you wish you had never met? Or anything you wish you had never done? Why do we need families? Are these ‘real’ jobs: housewife, monarch, novelist, pop star, priest. How would like be if we didn’t have clocks?

These are some of the questions to be found in Discussions A-Z. Intermediate, a book or speaking activities designed to encourage lively, natural discussion among intermediate students.

The book provide intermediate learners with a wealth of interesting and lively practice material, concentrating on those areas of grammar which generally cause most difficulty. The book may be used alongside the Grammar or on their own, with or without a teacher, and are particularly useful for revision.