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ELT NEWS WINTER
2007
It’s been a long time since our last issue! Since
then we’ve seen some very interesting new ELT publications, particularly
in IELTS. So in this issue we feature some new/newish IELTS titles; a
low-level EAP coursebook; and revised editions of some popular ELT books
as well as new teacher resources.
How many of you know what these
words mean?
greenwash
adspend
link rot
flexitarian
jobspill
- refer to the new dictionaries below for definitions. |
| NEW FOR IELTS |
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Common Mistakes at IELTS …
and how to avoid them
(Cambridge University
Press)
Available for either Intermediate or Advanced level, these
little books are based on analysis of thousands of exam scripts at IELTS
band 5 and 7 respectively. They look at real errors made by learners in
the test and explain how to avoid them.
$15.95
each |
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Cambridge Grammar for IELTS with
answers and audio CD
(Cambridge University Press)
This
self-study guide provides comprehensive coverage of the grammar needed for
the IELTS test with the chance to hear grammar being used in different
situations by presenting grammar in a listening context. Includes practice
for both the Academic and General Training modules.
$46.95 |
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Improve Your IELTS Reading
Skills
(Macmillan)
This is a complete preparation course
for the Academic Reading paper of the IELTS test. Through targeted
practice, it develops skills and language to help students achieve a
higher score. Suitable for self-study or classroom use, this book contains
10 topic-based units, each including skills work, reading passages and
language development.
$31.95 |
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Achieve IELTS
(Marshall Cavendish)
Achieve IELTS (Intermediate/Upper
Intermediate) and Achieve IELTS 2 (Upper Intermediate/Advanced) provide
clear, useful advice on approaching the test; carefully graded development
of test skills, building to full test practice activities; a strong
grammar syllabus; graded writing practice with model answers and example
student answers (with examiner’s comments). Components include student’s
book, teacher’s book, class audio CDs and workbook. |
| NEW FOR EAP |
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EAP NOW! Preliminary
(Pearson
Longman)
Designed to help students learn intermediate-level English
language skills, this book addresses the needs of students moving from
General English to EAP or those who would like to progress into vocational
courses. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills for EAP are
addressed in one text. Additional EAP skills practice includes Grammar,
Critical Thinking and English for the Internet Age.
Student’s
book $52.95
Teacher’s book $79.95
Class audio CDs
$79.95
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| NEW EDITIONS |
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Grammar Practice 3rd edition
(Pearson Longman)
The popular Grammar Practice series has
been revised and updated, with new vocabulary sections, including phrasal
verbs and word formation, and further practice and tests on the
interactive CD-ROM. Useful appendices include spelling rules, verb
patterns, lists of dependent prepositions and phrasal verbs. Available now
in Elementary and Pre-Intermediate levels, with other levels to come
later.
Grammar Practice for Elementary Students
$42.95
Grammar Practice for Pre-Intermediate Students $42.95
Grammar
Practice for Intermediate Students $42.95 (due October 2007)
Grammar
Practice for Upper Intermediate Students $42.95 (due March
2008) |
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How to Teach English 2nd edition
(Pearson Longman)
How to Teach English is a practical
guide for teachers who are at an early stage in their ELT careers and for
those studying for the CELTA, Certificate in TESOL and TKT exams. This new
edition has been fully revised to reflect recent methodological
developments and includes a DVD with clips from actual classes
demonstrating good teaching practice; a comprehensive glossary of teaching
terminology; a new chapter on testing; and a task file of photocopiable
training tasks.
$64.95 |
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Cambridge Learners’ Dictionary 3rd edition
(Cambridge University Press)
The 3rd edition of the
Cambridge Learners’ Dictionary has some new features: over 1,000 Word
Partner boxes to give students the right collocations; thesaurus boxes so
students can learn all the different words with the same meaning; special
new words pages, which include the following interesting definitions –
flexitarian – someone who doesn’t eat meat or fish usually, but
sometimes does
chugger – someone who stands on the street and asks
people walking past to give money regularly to a charity
the arsenic
hour – a busy time of day in a house with young children, especially the
time after parents arrive home and before the evening meal
jobspill –
when you spend time at home doing things that are part of your
job
$41.95 or $46.95 with CD-ROM
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Macmillan English Dictionary for
Advanced Learners
(Macmillan) 2nd edition
This new edition
includes hundreds of new words such as greenwash (activities by a business
or other organization that are intended to show that the organization is
concerned about the environment), adspend (the amount of money spent on
advertising for a product or activity), link rot (a situation in which
links on websites do not work); includes CD-ROM with a thesaurus function
for every meaning of every word, interactive exercises and weblinks to
relevant internet resources; also new Language Awareness pages on idioms,
discourse, cultural values, word formation.
$41.95 |
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The Internet and the Language
Classroom 2nd edition
(Cambridge University Press)
This
fully revised new edition is an ideal introduction to the Internet for all
teachers and provides a varied collection of activities for classroom use.
New to this edition is material covering webquests, blogs, wikis and
interactive whiteboards and how to use them as language
resources.
$49.95 |
| TEACHER RESOURCES
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Teaching English One to One
(Modern English Publishing)
This book provides an analysis
of the problems of teaching students on a one to one basis as opposed to
teaching groups of students. With advice on lesson planning, suggestions
for managing students and teaching time, this book also includes advice on
homestay teaching and guidance on dealing with problems and troublesome
students.
$73.95 |
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Success on Your Certificate Course
in English Language Teaching
(Sage Publications)
This is a
clear and practical guide to preparing for, and succeeding on, ELT/TESOL
certificate courses. Author Caroline Brandt has over 24 years’ experience
in English teaching and teacher education. The book aims to clarify the
field of ELT/TESOL; to enable choice of a good certificate course; to help
students succeed in their chosen certificate course; and to help with
preparation for employment in the TESOL area.
$54.95 |
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Learning and Teaching English: A
Course for Teachers
(Oxford University Press)
This book
introduces the essential features of learning, teaching, the English
language, and the relationship between the three. It is an excellent way
to prepare for entry-level teaching qualifications such as the Cambridge
ESOL Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT), CELTA, and the Trinity CertTESOL. The
book includes case studies by teachers from 8 countries around the world
and a section on classroom language. Both of these are on the accompanying
audio CD.
$61.95 |
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How to Teach English with
Technology with CD-ROM
(Longman)
This is a practical
guide for teachers who wish to use new technoogy in the classroom and
includes a CD-ROM with practical demonstrations; information on how to set
up internet-based project work; instructions on how to use blogs, wikis,
and podcasts; and a guide to producing your own electronic
materials.
$54.95 |
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Dialogue Activities: Exploring
Spoken Interaction in the Language Class
(Cambridge
University Press)
If your students wonder why the language they cover
in class is often different from the spoken language they encounter
outside the classroom, this book may help - it provides practical ideas to
encourage students to look at spoken language in different contexts and
ways to sound more natural. The book also includes a bank of dialogues
which can be used with the activities or used by teachers as models for
their own materials.
$55.95 |
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Dictionary Activities
(Cambridge University Press)
This book explains basics
such as what the features of a dictionary are and how to navigate a
dictionary, through to more complex topics such as collocations, idioms
and word building. It also looks at specialized dictionaries such as
picture dictionaries as well as electronic
dictionaries.
$49.95 |
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Five-Minute Activities for Young
Learners
(Cambridge University Press)
This book is full of
short, topical, low-resource ideas for teachers of English to children.
Activities are organised around 6 themes: animals, journeys, fantasy and
adventure, the world around us, healthy bodies and about me. These themes
reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the
curriculum for most primary
classrooms.
$49.95 |
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