Focusing on collaborative learning, this innovative secondary course enhances classroom dynamics by fostering a positive environment. The Teacher's Book features interleaved pages from the Student's Book, offering essential background information, teaching tips, and warmers. It includes optional tasks tailored for mixed abilities at three levels, guidance on implementing collaborative learning strategies, and resources for flipped classrooms. Additionally, it aligns with the Cambridge Framework for Life Competencies, integrating new digital methodologies and tools to support effective teaching.
This concise and user-friendly book draws on Mark Hancock's wealth of knowledge and experience to provide 50 practical tips that will be useful for teachers of all levels of experience. It outlines the key issues and challenges, with three clear sections. The first addresses the goals and models of teaching pronunciation, the second provides guidance on what to teach in pronunciation classes - the phonology of English, and the third explores how to teach it, with tips covering the techniques and methods used in the classroom.
A series of puzzles and activities designed to show patterns in the pronunciation of English. Based on a British model with differences in American English noted.
PronPack 1: Pronunciation Workouts are extended drills focusing on specific areas of English pronunciation. Think of them like the scales and other exercises which pianists use to improve their fingering technique. But in the case of pronunciation, it’s the vocal articulators which are getting trained – the tongue, lips, jaw and vocal chords.The workouts can benefit learners in two different ways – practice and perception. Practice: The workouts can help the mouth muscles to get accustomed to the unfamiliar movements required to speak in English. Perception: The workouts help learners to notice features of English pronunciation. Because the target pronunciation feature is repeated so often in the workout, it becomes much more obvious.The earlier workouts in the book focus on the sound system of English. They serve to familiarize the learners with the system as a whole by exploring the PronPack Sound Chart. They explore different regions of the system, such as the short vowels or the stop consonants, and they help the learner to become more aware of the articulators in the mouth and vocal tract. The later workouts in the book focus on suprasegmental features such as word stress, connected speech and tonic stress.This printed book contains worksheets for the students and teacher’s notes for you. The teacher’s notes give a short background to the pronunciation point plus step-by-step guidelines for using the activity in class. They also highlight the teaching focus, the minimum student level and indicate printing requirements. Additional materials including audio and printable resources to accompany Pronunciation Workouts are available on www.pronpack.comPronPack is a set of four resource books to help teachers focus on English pronunciation in class – each takes a slightly different approach to pronunciation teaching. You can select the approach you prefer, or use the various books to complement one another.
PronPack is a set of four resource books to help teachers focus on English pronunciation in class – each takes a slightly different approach to pronunciation teaching. You can select the approach you prefer, or use the various books to complement one another. PronPack 4: Pronunciation Poems are rhymes, chants, limericks, raps and song lyrics all written specifically to contain multiple examples of the target pronunciation features. The activities usually begin with an exercise completing or correcting the text and culminate in practising saying or chanting the text out loud. The poems can benefit learners by making specific features of English pronunciation very noticeable to them because they occur so frequently in a short sample of language. They also provide concentrated practice in producing the target feature through the chant. A further benefit is that they tend to be very memorable – the chant or lyric will often ‘play-on-repeat’ in the student’s head afterwards, providing extra silent practice. The poems in the greater part of the book focus on individual sounds. Later in the book there are poems focussing on consonant clusters, grammatical –ed and –s endings and weak forms. However, the poems all have a further focus which is equally if not more they provide intensive exemplification and practice of connected speech. This printed book contains worksheets for the students and teacher’s notes for you. The teacher’s notes give a short background to the pronunciation point plus step-by-step guidelines for using the activity in class. They also highlight the teaching focus, the minimum student level and indicate printing requirements. Additional materials including audio and printable resources to accompany Pronunciation Poems are available on www.pronpack.com Other books in the PronPack series Book 1: Pronunciation Workouts – extended choral drill activities activities.Book 2: Pronunciation Puzzles – puzzles and game-like activities.Book 3: Pronunciation Pairworks – communication activities.
A resource book of supplementary materials for the teaching of grammar through songs. Singing Grammar is part of the Cambridge Copy Collection. It is a resource book of supplementary materials for the teaching of grammar through the medium of song. The Audio CD contains eighteen songs, each with a specific grammar focus, and is suitable for students from elementary to intermediate level. For each of the songs there is a clear page of teaching notes followed by a motivating song worksheet, a grammar exercise page and a fun grammar game for classroom use. The material is especially suitable for younger learners but could also be used successfully with adults.
