"David Cross has broad experience in classroom teaching, teacher training and conducting trainer training programmes in the USA, Europe, Egypt and Africa. He now works as an English Language Teaching Officer on a British Council / Overseas Development Administration programme at the Ecole Normale Superieure d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast." (Back Cover).

"David Cross has broad experience in classroom teaching, teacher training and conducting trainer training programmes in the USA, Europe, Egypt and Africa. He now works as an English Language Teaching Officer on a British Council / Overseas Development Administration programme at the Ecole Normale Superieure d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast." (Back Cover).

“The aim of this handbook is to meet the needs of teachers and trainees, as well as those of their advisers, by combining the essentials of successful classroom management and teaching in a single, easily read volume. Thoughtful study, perhaps coupled with discussion with colleagues, will enable readers to learn to teach or to improve their teaching, quite independently. The emphasis throughout is on practicality, although readers are made aware of the theory underlying any technique or approach.” (Book Cover).

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE: BASIC LANGUAGE TEACHING SKILLS

1. Presenting and practising vocabulary

2. Presenting and practising structures

3. Presenting and practising grammar points

4. Conducting meaningful drills

5. Using pair and group work

6. Oral work: elicitation techniques

PART TWO: STANDARD LESSON TYPES

7. Exploiting the text

8. Exploiting dialogues

9. Using the blackboard

10. Making and using simple teaching aids

11. Planning lessons

PART THREE: INTRODUCING VARIETY INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING

12. Language learning games

13. Songs and rhymes

14. Revision and homework

15. Classroom testing

16. Improving pronunciation: sounds and spellings

17. Improving pronunciation: the music of English

PART FOUR: DEVELOPING RECEPTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

18. Encouraging creative language use

19. Developing listening skills

20. Developing reading skills

21. Developing writing skills

22. Developing oral skills

“The aim of this handbook is to meet the needs of teachers and trainees, as well as those of their advisers, by combining the essentials of successful classroom management and teaching in a single, easily read volume. Thoughtful study, perhaps coupled with discussion with colleagues, will enable readers to learn to teach or to improve their teaching, quite independently. The emphasis throughout is on practicality, although readers are made aware of the theory underlying any technique or approach.” (Book Cover).

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE: BASIC LANGUAGE TEACHING SKILLS
1. Presenting and practising vocabulary
2. Presenting and practising structures
3. Presenting and practising grammar points
4. Conducting meaningful drills
5. Using pair and group work
6. Oral work: elicitation techniques

PART TWO: STANDARD LESSON TYPES
7. Exploiting the text
8. Exploiting dialogues
9. Using the blackboard
10. Making and using simple teaching aids
11. Planning lessons

PART THREE: INTRODUCING VARIETY INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING
12. Language learning games
13. Songs and rhymes
14. Revision and homework
15. Classroom testing
16. Improving pronunciation: sounds and spellings
17. Improving pronunciation: the music of English

PART FOUR: DEVELOPING RECEPTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
18. Encouraging creative language use
19. Developing listening skills
20. Developing reading skills
21. Developing writing skills
22. Developing oral skills

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For teachers and trainees.