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.

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.

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.