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.

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.

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.

David Crystal investigates the nature of the impact which the Internet is making on language. There is already a widespread popular mythology that the Internet is going to be bad for the future of language – that technospeak will rule, standards be lost, and creativity diminished as globalization imposes sameness. The argument of this book is the reverse: that the Internet is in fact enabling a dramatic expansion to take place in the range and variety of language, and is providing unprecedented opportunities for personal creativity.

This book is about building and using language tests and assessments. It does what it says on the tin: it is a practical approach. However, it does not provide ready-made solutions. Language testing is a complex social phenomenon, and its practice changes lives. The book therefore assumes that you will wish to think carefully about testing and its impact in your own context.

Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing is a handbook on research on the effective teaching and learning of writing. It is a reference for researchers and educators in the domain of written composition in education. Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing covers all age ranges and school settings and it deals with various aspects of writing and text types. Research methodology varies from experimental studies to reflective classroom practitioners’ research.

The book is intended for two groups: students in introductory language testing courses (and naturally their instructors), and language teachers who need to create tests for themselves or their school or program, or who have test results that need analyzing. I have tried to make it something that will be useful for both groups, a textbook for students like the ones I teach in my own testing course, and a handbook or guide for teachers who may have no training in language assessment but who nonetheless have to make tests or make sense of testing data.

Five Minute Activities is a collection of over 100 ideas for the foreign language classroom, all of which can be used effectively with little or no preparation. The collection offers a convenient reference for established activities and an introduction to a large number of new ones. The activities can vary pace and content, provide transitions, and otherwise contribute to the "well-orchestrated" lesson; give an opportunity for brief review and practice of vocabulary or grammar; help students and teacher to get to know each other; and offer extra material when a teacher has to fill in for a colleague at short notice.