Teach English Adrian Doff Pdf Free Download
Quintin Heatley
Author of our excellent Business Tasks series, Adrian Doff, talks about his interesting background teaching during troubled times in the Middle East, and teases us with a riddle about a joke concerning a penguin.
My teacher training book Teach English. This came out of the work I did in Egypt in the 1980s, developing training courses for state school teachers. At that time (and probably still today) most methodology books assumed that you were a native speaker working in a private language school with lots of time to be creative, so they really had nothing to offer the kind of teachers I was working with. So I tried to give something to this other kind of teacher: people with not very good English themselves, traditional ideas, teaching classes of 50 or more, and with no free time or resources. With Teach English, I really felt I was entering territory where no-one had ever been before, which was very exciting. I was also very proud when someone told me they had seen the book in the window of a bookshop in Bhutan!
This month the panel discusses World Englishes, grammar pet peeves, and metalanguage. Special guests include senior teacher and teacher trainer at The Language Gallery, London, Erin Vickerman, and Sue Kay, teacher, teacher trainer, co-author of the Inside Out series, and co-founder of ELT Teacher 2 Writer.
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The Culture Notes, Extra Activities suggestions, Optional Lead-Ins, tips and ideas to deal with Fast Finishers are all absolute bonuses. Thank you, authors! For less experienced teachers, the Vocabulary Support (short definition and CEF level of key lexis, all nicely boxed) and Careful! sections (anticipated problems with form and meaning) will give welcome support.
Lessons will often combine theory and practice since they may be basedon self-reflection activities or on activities in which studentsmust apply the methodological principles studied in the theory.Part of the practice will consist in analysing some materialsproduced by teachers and students and doing activities related toplanning teaching and testing students' knowledge.
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