John McRae Books

Focusing on the integration of language and literature, this practical guide offers strategies for educators to enhance their teaching methods. It emphasizes the benefits of viewing these subjects as interconnected rather than separate, providing resources and approaches that foster a more cohesive learning experience in the classroom.

Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency. This book for upper-intermediate and more advanced students contains a wide range of texts with related exercises which aim to make literature more accessible while developing general fluency. It is organized thematically, covering such topics as Family, Environment, Rebellion and Women. There is a minimum of three texts in each unit and the related activities are varied and thought-provoking, to stimulate and sustain discussion. The last part of each unit draws together what the students have read: first, by considering the different treatments of the theme; then by actively involving the students in a stimulation which relates theme to text; and finally, by analysing the literary uses of language illustrated in the texts.

The fully revised edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the present day. It covers writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Ian Banks and Irvine Welsh.

This new guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish Literature uniquely charts some of the main features of literary language development and highlights key language topics. Clearly structured and highly readable, it spans over a thousand years of literary history from AD 600 to the present day. It emphasizes the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characters but also includes literature from the margins, both geographical and culturally. Key features of the textbook include: * an up-to-date guide to the major periods of literature in English in Britain and Ireland * extensive coverage of post-1945 literature * language notes spanning AD 600 to the present * extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama * a timeline of the important historical and political events * a special text design to enhance its usefulness * a foreword by novelist Malcolm Bradbury The Routledge History of Literature in English will interest students and teachers of literature and language worldwide.

This book introduces language students to literary texts to be read for pleasure, discussion and language improvement. The themes include Money, Pleasure, Education, and Identity, with a wide variety of unsimplified texts ranging from Shakespeare to John Steinbeck. Teacher's notes are provided at the back of the book. The cassette contains most of the extracts and poems.

A resource book for secondary teachers providing guidelines for preparing and stimulating students to read on their own for pleasure and to improve their English. It provides detailed notes on 17 books at three levels, primary to lower secondary, lower secondary and lower to upper secondary.

Aims to introduce students to an appreciation of literature by treating the theme of school in an entertaining and informative way. The extracts are followed by exercises on the following page which cover listening, reading and discussion. The book and accompanying cassette features extracts from writers' accounts of school. Included are The Diary of Adrian Mole and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.