Archive for the ‘Marshall Cavendish’ Category

I’m starting to pack to go to Korea, and the lack of CDs is a godsend. Books, however, are going to be a problem…

If you are in Japan, my loss could be your gain. If you are interested in any of the books below, I will send you a copy and even include one of the freebies listed at the bottom, in exchange for writing a review for TEFL.net reviews, as explained here. Please note, however, that I am paying postage out of my own pocket and will be rather miffed if good intentions does not turn into an actual review, so only volunteer this time if you are sure you can do it. When the publishers are paying postage like usual, however…

If you are in Korea, I might also be willing to add it to my box of books to take and send it from there, so you might be second choice but still, volunteer away!

If anyone is interested, please use the Request to Review for TEFL.net box on the Reviewer’s Guide page (a vital read for everyone who is interested), leave a message here, or email me using the Contact Me button on the main page of the blog.

Books available:

Oxford University Press
Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

Activities Using Resources- Heather Westrup and Joanna Baker (Oxford Basics)
Vocabulary Activities- Mary Slattery (Oxford Basics for Children)
Listen and Do (Oxford Basics for Children)
The Oxford ESOL Handbook
Creating Songs and Chants- Carolyn Graham

Summertown Publishing
Success with BULATS

Marshall Cavendish Education
Achieve BULATS

Cambridge
The TKT Course

Delta Publishing
Challenging Children

The English Company
The English Course 3rd Edition (Gary Ireland, Kevin Murphy, Max Woollerton)

Already been reviewed, but will give away to people who volunteer to review titles above:

Oxford
Form Focused Instruction and Teacher Education

A History of English Language Teaching

Still not loving teaching the 18-20 year olds. Passing on my wisdom is all very well, but I prefer to have some passed back my way too. At least I’m having to research some stuff about Oz (where most of them are going next year) to plan their lessons and so getting some culture that way. Well I guess you could say culture, if you could also say Shane Warne is the Leonardo di Vinci of the antipodes. 

An almost entirely positive point about the classes, though, is the textbook they have chosen for me. Am loving teaching with Face2Face Pre-Intermediate and Face2Face Intermediate (both Chris Redston and Gillie Cunningham, Cambridge University Press). Seems to suit my way of teaching down to the ground. Bizarrely, also gives much more useful language for the IELTS exam than the designated book for that course- being the almost completely pointless book Step Up to IELTS (Vanessa Jakeman and Clare McDowell, also CUP). I also hear daily complaints from the other teachers about Achieve IELTS (Marshall Cavendish). Are there no decent IELTS textbooks out there????

Anyone else like these, hate them or want to know more about them?