Macmillan Books for Teachers

Learning Teaching Third Edition

Author: Jim Scrivener

Learning Teaching is the essential guide for new teachers and is an invaluable resource for teacher training courses. It combines the basic principles of working in a language classroom with practical teaching advice, helping teachers plan and run successful activities, lessons and courses. The third edition has been revised and restructured to take recent developments in ELT into account and now includes a DVD featuring a full lesson being taught, as well as demonstrations of practical teaching techniques.

- It includes updated sections on technology, CLIL and young learners.

- The DVD contains video footage of an entire ELT lesson to fulfill observational requirements on initial training courses, along with demonstrations of common teaching techniques. It also provides a wide-ranging selection of printable worksheets, observation tasks, templates and resources to use in class.

 

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Sound Fundations

Author: Adrian Underhill

Sound Foundations is a comprehensive introduction to the English phonological system and an invaluable resource for anyone involved in teaching pronunciation. It provides a systematic and practical approach to helping students improve their pronunciation, and offers information on pronunciation systems as well as practical activities which can be used both in pronunciation classes and in other class activities in regular language lessons. The discovery approach means both you and your students learn through physically experiencing how pronunciation works.

- The book includes an audio CD of pronunciation activities with instructions form the author.

 

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Teaching English Grammar

Author: Jim Scrivener

Teaching English Grammar is the essential guidebook for teachers who need to prepare and deliver effective grammar lessons. It combines a clear and comprehensive grammar reference with practical teaching advice, helping teachers to understand grammar points and present them clearly using language suitable for students rather than academic prose. Packed with immediately useful ideas and techniques, it is suitable for both newly qualified and more experienced teachers.

- Situational presentations with pictures and diagrams can be easily reproduced on the board when presenting language.

- Clear explanations of key grammatical structures are presented, with timelines and concept questions.

- Common errors are highlighted, so that teachers can anticipate problems their students might meet.

 

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Teaching Practice

Authors: Roger Gower, Diane Phillips and Steve Walters

Teaching Practice is an essential reference for both EFL teachers and trainers on pre-service training courses. Chapters systematically cover the main challenges for new teachers, increasing awareness of the classroom situation and covering basic classroom skills. It contains basic guidelines and practical information to allow maximum learning from teaching practice sessions.

- The handbook takes account of current views on training and methodology and is suitable for use on Cambridge CELTA courses.

- It provides information on how to run a successful teaching practice course for teacher trainers.

 

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Teaching Reading Skills

Author: Christine Nuttall

Teaching Reading Skills describes how the texts we read are organized to communicate meanings. It breaks down and examines the skills we use in reading, analyzing what is involved in effective reading, and suggests ways of helping students to develop into successful readers in a foreign language. It is especially useful for exam and EAP classes, and includes an invaluable chapter on testing reading skills, written by Charles Alderson.

- It suggests practical strategies to help students develop their reading competence to a higher level, and contains a wide range of practical ideas and activities with keys for immediate use in the classroom.

- Four sample lesson plans are provided, to show how various approaches can be combined in a single lesson.

 

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Uncovering CLIL

Authors: Peeter Mehisto, David Marsh and María Jesús Frigols

CLIL refers to methodologies in which a language is used as a medium for the teaching of non-language content. Uncovering CLIL is a practical and informative guide for both language and subject teachers of all levels of experience to the methodologies and techniques involved in CLIL teaching. It examines language and content teaching, and reveals how the two can go hand in hand, giving examples of how to use CLIL at primary, secondary and vocational levels. Packed with practical ideas and suggestions about what works in the classroom, it is the essential companion for CLIL teachers.

 

 

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Uncovering EAP

Author: Scott Thornbury

As teachers, we often talk about 'covering' grammar points. Uncovering Grammar challenges the traditional view of grammar as a thing to be learned, suggesting it is more like a process that emerges. It re-examines traditional approaches to teaching grammar and shows how to create the right conditions for students to uncover grammar.

- The book uses extracts from exchanges in real classrooms, authentic texts and language teaching tasks, and contains a wide range of practical ideas, activities and photocopiable resources so teachers can easily put theory into practice in their classrooms.

- It explains how grammar functions in language and how grammatical systems emerge, with task sheets to help teachers and students understand the processes of grammar in language acquisition.

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Uncovering Grammar

Authors: Rod Bolitho and Brian Tomlinson

Discover English is a practical guide to language awareness for teachers and teacher trainers of all levels of experience. The book is divided into two parts: in the first, the authors establish basic principles, explore common areas of difficulty and provide exercises designed to develop an awareness of language. A full key in the second part includes commentaries on the issues raised by the exercises, and insights into teaching.

- Ways of analyzing and understanding language systems are presented, as well as motivating and practical activities which lead to learning.

- The book helps students use grammar references and dictionaries successfully.

 

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