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A Pocket Book of Business English helps you to practise and expand your business vocabulary and reading skills through a series of stimulating exercises and puzzles. The following business topic are covered: Entrepeneurs, Brand Wars, Time Management, Space Tourism, Outsourcing, The Internet, Business Fraud, Sustainability, Feng Shui in Business, Smart Appliances.
• ideal for classroom & self-study • glossary of key business terms • includes a list of 100 essential business verbs • common abbreviations used in business
• essential skills practice in business English
Intermediate with answer key

Why do the twins have nightmares about a kitchen? Are schools like prisons? And prisons like schools? How did the company chairman get mixed up with storks? What is the meaning of the 20,000 left foot shoes? Provocative, amusing, controversial, baffling. Challenge to Think is a fascinatiing compendium of English language puzzles, problems, thinking games, questions & issues, to give intermediate students practice in vital language skills. Part 1 Speaking: spoken exercises promote the asking of correct questions, statement analysis, intensive discussion & creative thinking, with exercises such as Puzzle Stories, Causes & Consequences and Switch Sentences.
Part 2 Reading & Speaking: students read & share opinions about stories, problems & issues, practising comprehension, logical thinking and self- expression, Exercises include Deduction Puzzles, Contradictions and Lies, All Lies!
Part 3 Writing & Speaking: written solutions provide a basis for shared oral work. Exercises include Creative Drills, Describe Yourself and Finish the Story. Class time for the exercises in each section varies from 10 minutes to an hour.
Many of the exercises, particularly in the preliminary reading & writing stages, may easily be adapted for homework. The emphasis throughout the book however, is on spoken English. The development of strong relationships within the group or class, based on the sharing of problems, ideas & experience, is at the core of the book. Teacher’s Notes & a key are included.

The English Teacher's Handbook - a 'classic' ELT title that has been revised and updated for this edition. The English Teacher's Handbook provides an essential guide to English Language Teaching and is ideally suited to teacher trainees embarking upon a Trinity Cert TESOL course or a CELTA course.
The book contains sensible, pragmatic and useful advice on key areas such as methodology, classroom practice, lesson planning and grammar.

Key Features:
• a survey of traditional teaching methods
• a detailed look at current preoccupations in the language classroom
• practical tips and examples of classroom techniques
• useful advice on choice of syllabus, lesson planning and classroom management
• sections on Information Technology, CALL, Email & the Internet

The ideal introductory book for inexperienced teachers starting a career in EFL.