Books in the New Ways in Tesol series

For students ranging from young learners to adults, New Ways in Teaching with Games offers more than 90 fresh activities--each with video instruction--that involve play and games that will enrich your EFL and ESL classrooms. This innovative volume introduces traditional, online, and commercial games and explains how they can be used to practice language; Illustrates games that can reinforce language across the four skill areas and encourage both culturally and pragmatically appropriate language productions; and enriches language classrooms with a variety of innovative, learner-friendly games that are seamlessly tied to language practice. Using gamification for your ESL classroom turns repetitive exercises into meaningful and fun activities! The activities are broken down by topic, including: Traditional Pencil and Paper Games; Dice Games; Board Games; Card Games; Technology-Mediated Games: Online, Apps, and More; and Miscellaneous Games. Video instructions included for each activity! -- provided by publisher.

New Ways in Teaching With Music shows how music can be incorporated into your lessons a way to decrease anxiety, increase motivation and retention, and invigorate both students and teachers. This book is a collection of adaptable lessons that use music as a catalyst for effective, engaging, and enjoyable language learning.

Explores the whole gamut of possibilities for using humour in English language teaching. Find ideas for beginning to advanced students, 5-minute activities to start a class on a humorous note to multiday projects, and silly English puns and jokes to activities for examining controversial social issues.

Offers more than 80 ready-to-use activities for the business English classroom, specifically selected to represent the diversity that is driving innovation in business English teaching today. The contributors come from a variety of teaching contexts around the world, including tertiary education, corporate language training, and adult education.

Over 100 updated activities adapted for technology, low-resource classrooms, higher education, EFL, workplace literacy, adult immigrant education, K-12, or corporate training. Contributors have worked hard to make the steps easy to follow yet thorough in detail. "Caveats" and "Options" help teachers springboard new ideas, generating enthusiasm contagious to the whole classroom.

Native speakers of English tend to feel that connected speech is friendlier, more natural, more sympathetic, and more personal. Is there any reason why learners of English would prefer to be viewed as unfriendly, unnatural, unsympathetic, and impersonal? The great news is that such rules can (and should) be explained and taught.

This second edition of New Ways in Teaching Reading bursts with new activities while retaining many of the features that made the first edition a best seller. The activities chosen for this edition are inspired by state-of-the art trends in teaching reading to English learners. This text is the best possible type of resource - by ESL and EFLreading teachers for ESL and EFL reading teachers.