Overview

This extremely popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, together with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers all the information they need about appropriate level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each title offers up to 100 ideas plus variations to encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suit their particular classes. The series is aimed at teachers of secondary and adult learners, and organizers of in-service training courses will find the series useful to demonstrate fresh ideas.   Key Features Practical, creative and original ideas show teachers how they can make effective use of English-language newspapers in the classroom. The activities include ways of exploiting newspapers both for their language and their cultural content. The majority of activities need little teacher preparation time. A useful appendix provides a guide to the availability of English-language newspapers worldwide.

Full Product Details

Author:   Peter Grundy ,  Alan Maley
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.265kg
ISBN:  

9780194371926

ISBN 10:   0194371921
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   04 February 1993
Audience:   ELT/ESL ,  ELT General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Note: A full contents list at the front of the book provides a complete list of the activities, the suggested level at which each activity can be used, and the topic for each activity. The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book's organ ization.The author and series editor Foreword Introduction How to use this book 1: Working creatively with newspapers A short chapter inviting teachers to take stock of their existing knowledge and think about the kinds of new ideas that could be introduced into the classroom. 2: Building confidence and familiarity (30 activities) Activities designed to make students feel that they can handle newspapers. 3: Working with texts (22 activities) Text-based activities which require extensive, discriminating, authentic reading. 4: Working with pictures (15 activities) Matching activities which treat texts and pictures as complementary and in a parallel relationship. 5: Project work (14 activities) A range of ideas for project work, some requiring half a day's work, and others several days or even weeks. 6: Personal responses (19 activities) Activities which bring together responses to newspaper materials and personal experiences, memories, and feelings. Appendix Bibliography

Reviews

'A superb contribution to language teaching and learning.' - Modern Language Journal

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