This book is the ideal companion to Erickson`s landmark Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul, Second Edition. Here, the author explores, concept-based learning on a more in-depth level across disciplines and grade levels. Teachers can use the specific strategies to create a seamless learning program that teachers students the skils the really need to think conceptually and to solve problems in today`s complex, changing world

Clear Speech from the Start gives beginning students immediate help with the essential elements of English pronunciation. Like Clear Speech, this lower-level text concentrates on the features that will make the biggest difference in students` ability to understans and communicate with others, such as rhythm, intonation, and sounds as grammar cues

Thesauruses give you synonym lists but don`t tell you which word is appropriate to use in a given context. Choose the right word does. Now in its second edition, this unique blent of thesaurus, dictionary and manual of English usage has been completely revised and updated. In over 1,000 entries, it defines, compares and contrasts 6,000 commonly used synonyms and related words to help you find the right word to express yourself clearly and exactly

Daniel Jone`s classic pronuoncing dictionary is the ultimate guide to pronounciation in English. Now in its 17th edition, it includes thousands of pronounciation not shown in general dictionaries, from people to places, to words from science, technology and literature

Classroom Observation Tasks shows how to use observations to learn about language teaching. It does this by providing a range of tasks which guides the user through the process of observing, analysing and reflecting, and develops the skills of observation

Tony Lynch looks at how learners interact in the classroom, and offers guidance to teachers on how to make lessons more effective by giving learners better opportunities for interaction and communication. Using illustrative transcripts, he offers insights from research into the nature of real-life interaction, and practical guidance on designing communicative tasks in all four skills

With more than 200 new entries, this updated edition boasts almost 2,000 common phrases and colloquial expressions used in contemporary American English. From greetings and good-byes to everyday small talk, each entry is presented in a realistic context. Special attention to the needs of nonnative speakers includes usage restrictions and cautions as well as a phrase-finder index for on-the-spot reference. An essential dictionary for all students of English who want to know the most common expressions in American speech today

This book offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction—using subject matter rather than grammar—through eleven case studies of cutting-edge models in a broad variety of languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency. The highly innovative models illustrate content-based instruction programs for both commonly and less-commonly taught languages—Arabic, Croatian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish—and for proficiency levels ranging from beginners to fluent speakers. They include single-teacher and multi-teacher contexts and such settings as typical language department classrooms, specialty schools, intensive language programs, and university programs in foreign languages across the curriculum

This new text is designed to give beginning students immediate help in mastering the crucial elements of North American English pronunciation. Like its best-selling higher-level counterpart, Clear Speech, Clear Speech from the Start concentrates on topics, such as rhythm and intonation, linking, and sounds as grammar cues, that will make the biggest difference in students' ability to understand and communicate with others. The audio program that accompanies this book is available both on audio cassettes and audio CDs. It includes a broad selection of exercises recorded by a variety of speakers in natural-sounding speech

This compact, easy-to-use format is the first product built on our cutting-edge cartographic database and offers the convenience of smaller scale without sacrificing clarity or detail. Identically scaled maps on a given continent enable readers to compare physical, political, and regional information simply and accurately. After a fascinating explanation of the latest technology, the atlas examines our world as a whole, presenting 25 global themes, from tectonics and the biosphere to population, health, literacy, and more, along with such timely topics as environmental stress and flash points for conflict and terror