From word to phrase to sentence, this new lexical approach to grammar builds natural idiomatic English. Winner of the 2004 British Council ELT Innovation Award Natural Grammar shows you how one hundred important English keywords work, the phrases they generate, and the links they make. The emphasis[...]

Vocabulary Activities provides a wealth of ideas for introducing, presenting, expanding, exploring and practising vocabulary. These teacher-friendly activities are clearly written and wide-ranging, and the book also contains a detailed guidelines section outlining the key principles involved in teac[...]

The preparation course for the Cambridge ESOL teacher training exam, the Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), the most popular teacher training qualification.[...]

A complete and essential activity-based guide to ELT classroom management. Overall winner of the 2012 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award, Classroom Management Techniques offers a huge range of practical techniques to help teachers make the most of their teaching space and get [...]

Covering the various methods for teaching grammar including the practice and integration of grammar and how NOT to teach grammar! * Explores different techniques for teaching grammar including inductive and deductive approaches. * Covers practising, testing, error correction and how to integrate gr[...]

The How to!series offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework. Each title includes a photocopiable 'Task File' of training and reflection activities to reinforce the theories and practical ideas presented.[...]

An A-Z of ELT is a fully cross-referenced, alphabetical guide to ELT that defines and explains essential language concepts and terminology from fields including grammar, linguistics, discourse analysis, phonology, etc. It describes language teaching techniques and theories and summarises the major i[...]

This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.[...]

How do we design sentences to fit their purposes and how do we combine them to communicate complex, contextualised meanings? In this witty and incisive book, Scott Thornbury takes discourse apart to show how it is organised and how it aids communication. Starting with an examination of genre, he goe[...]