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.

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.