Jo Smith Books

The book offers a comprehensive resource for teaching about life in the UK, focusing on 18 essential topics such as History, Politics, Health, and Culture. Each topic includes three adaptable lessons tailored for Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced speakers, along with extension activities for deeper engagement. Additionally, it features an audio CD showcasing authentic accents from across the UK, enhancing the learning experience and providing a practical approach to understanding British culture.

The book provides an in-depth examination of Maori Television's significant influence on New Zealand broadcasting since its inception in 2004. Through three years of interviews with key stakeholders, it explores the network's practices, its contributions to language revitalization, innovative Maori programming, and audience engagement with indigenous television. Jo Smith presents a comprehensive analysis of the first decade of Maori Television, highlighting its cultural and social impact.

Designed for ESOL educators, this collection features photocopiable activities that align with the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. It provides practical resources to enhance teaching and learning, ensuring that lessons are relevant and effective for adult learners. Each activity is clearly referenced, making it easy for teachers to integrate them into their curriculum.

Place, Power, Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization is a compelling, interdisciplinary exploration of how media practices and communication rituals are connected to larger economic, social, and political processes in a globalizing world. Through a rich variety of media texts, authors examine how daily, mundane, and interpersonal processes help shape 'our' place in the world, a placement that is integrally connected to social relations at the global level. Denoting a sense of geography as well as demarcating diverse social positionings, place is understood as the result of historical and contemporary discourses occurring on a range of scales and within different cultural, aesthetic, and political contexts. The authors argue that the construction, restoration, configuration, and representation of place is an important project at multiple levels; what meanings are derived from it, what meanings are infused, who the key players are, what power struggles are inherent--these issues offer rich areas of study for global media scholars interested in the place-making powers of media.

Buckingham Palace, London, 2013. My mum and I seem to be on the cover of every magazine these days. She must be really pleased that I’ve made her so famous. Before I arrived, I don’t suppose many people had even heard of her. Kensington Palace, London, 2013. Dad’s a pilot who flies helicopters right up in the sky. I think that’s why he’s called Highness. But just because Dad flies helicopters, it doesn’t make him good at changing nappies. He had his first try at changing my nappy today. He was good, but I don't think he enjoyed it because he kept screwing up his face and yelling something about stinky poo! Kensington Palace, London, 2013. Great grandma came round today. Her name is Queen. She’s married to this grumpy old bloke called Chookee Edinburgh who walks around with his hands behind his back. I think he bites his nails and doesn’t want anyone to see.

Made up of supernutrients from leafy greens and fruits, green smoothies are filling and healthy and you will enjoy drinking them. This book provides a shopping list, recipes and detailed instructions for the 10-day cleanse, along with suggestions for getting the best results.

Northern Virginia is full of stories of bravery, tragedy, and ghosts. Take a tour of some of the most well-known haunts in the region, including Gadsby's Tavern, where a strange couple left a mystery behind, the Carlyle House, where a jealous female ghost resides, and the Woodlawn Plantation, where the ghosts of slaves still work. But hauntings are not limited to Alexandria. In Occoquan, there's a story of lust, jealousy, and murder that keeps an Indian ghost at the Occoquan Inn. In Dumfries, learn about the spirit of a girl who died in seclusion because people believed she was demon-possessed. In Leesburg, meet a little ghost girl looking to play Hide and Seek. From ghostly strangers and nightmares, to body parts found in unknowing residents' homes, you'll find them in Haunted Alexandria.