The new academic year has not long started, bringing with it its usual dose of stress, students, time-tabling.............and books! Every year we are faced with the same problem, the difficult task of finding the most suitable textbook for our needs and aims.
To prepare this section, I spent many hours reading through information, asking for and compiling comments from teachers and specialists in the field, and the result is the following list of texts most highly assessed for the year 2001-2002.
I hope it helps you to find what you need.
Nursery:
Ed: Burlington Books
Ed: Oxford University Press
Ed: Cambridge University Press
Ed: Pearson Education
Primary:
Ed: Burlington Books
Best Friend (Primary 3, 4, 5 & &)
Ed: Cambridge University Press
Ed: Pearson Education
Secondary to age 16:
Ed: Burlington Books
Ed: Oxford University Press
3. Snapshot (1, 2, 3 & 4)
During the third Atlantic Forum get-together, we asked those present to carry out an assessment of some of the texts on this list, and complete a questionnaire; if you would like to know the results, click on our friend here and he’ll take you to the right section.
In the next edition of The Bookmark, I’ll be telling you about the latest news for Bachillerato, Adults and Language Schools. But in the meantime, here are some ‘old friends’:
In this book, Penny Ur manages to bridge the gap between producing an analysis of the process of listening and simply a series of exercises.
It is a practical book which deals with a) What sort of listening activities go on in real life. b)What particular difficulties are likely to be encountered by the learner when coping with them and c) How we as teachers can best help the student to master these difficulties. Suggestions abound, both for listening for comprehension and for perception, and activities include guessing games, gapfills, detecting mistakes, noting specific information, and problem solving, using songs, pictures and maps.
250 pares de palabras inglesas explicadas
A new book out on the market with clear, practical explanations, which is bound to be handy as material for supplementing your classes.
“250 pares.....” deals with frequent words in English which often get confused (e.g. embarrassed vs. pregnant). There is also a key at the end of the book with the answers to the exercises given. You’re sure to like it!
Title: 250 pares de palabras inglesas explicadas
Published by: Anglo-Didáctica (Linguistic Group)
Well, these are my tips; however, if you would like more information on anything, drop us a line to the usual address.
Oh, and have you heard about the plot against Wallace and Gromit??? Just ask me about it..............................
Javier (with a little hand from Leslie)
