Focusing on collaborative learning, this innovative secondary course enhances classroom dynamics by fostering a positive environment. The Teacher's Book features interleaved pages from the Student's Book, offering essential background information, teaching tips, and warmers. It includes optional tasks tailored for mixed abilities at three levels, guidance on implementing collaborative learning strategies, and resources for flipped classrooms. Additionally, it aligns with the Cambridge Framework for Life Competencies, integrating new digital methodologies and tools to support effective teaching.
This concise and user-friendly book draws on Mark Hancock's wealth of knowledge and experience to provide 50 practical tips that will be useful for teachers of all levels of experience. It outlines the key issues and challenges, with three clear sections. The first addresses the goals and models of teaching pronunciation, the second provides guidance on what to teach in pronunciation classes - the phonology of English, and the third explores how to teach it, with tips covering the techniques and methods used in the classroom.
A series of puzzles and activities designed to show patterns in the pronunciation of English. Based on a British model with differences in American English noted.
PronPack 1: Pronunciation Workouts consists of extended drills targeting specific areas of English pronunciation, akin to the scales pianists practice for technique. These workouts train the vocal articulators—tongue, lips, jaw, and vocal cords. They offer learners two main benefits: practice and perception. The practice aspect helps the mouth muscles adapt to the unfamiliar movements needed for English speech, while the perception aspect enhances awareness of pronunciation features through repetition, making them more noticeable.
The initial workouts concentrate on the English sound system, familiarizing learners with it through the PronPack Sound Chart. They explore various components, such as short vowels and stop consonants, increasing awareness of mouth and vocal tract articulators. Later workouts shift focus to suprasegmental features, including word stress, connected speech, and tonic stress.
This printed resource includes worksheets for students and teacher’s notes, which provide background on pronunciation points, step-by-step activity guidelines, teaching focus, minimum student levels, and printing requirements. Additional materials, including audio and printable resources, are available at www.pronpack.com. PronPack comprises four resource books, each offering a unique approach to pronunciation teaching, allowing for selection or complementary use.
PronPack is a collection of four resource books designed to assist teachers in focusing on English pronunciation, each offering a unique approach. PronPack 4: Pronunciation Poems features rhymes, chants, limericks, raps, and song lyrics specifically crafted to highlight multiple examples of target pronunciation features. Activities typically start with exercises to complete or correct the text and culminate in practicing the text aloud. These poems help learners notice specific English pronunciation features due to their frequent occurrence in short language samples. They also provide concentrated practice through chanting, making them memorable as students often recall the lyrics, allowing for additional silent practice. The majority of poems concentrate on individual sounds, while later sections address consonant clusters, grammatical –ed and –s endings, and weak forms. Importantly, the poems also emphasize connected speech. This printed book includes worksheets for students and teacher’s notes, which provide background on pronunciation points, step-by-step guidelines for classroom use, teaching focus, minimum student levels, and printing requirements. Additional materials, including audio and printable resources, are available at www.pronpack.com. The series also includes other books focusing on extended choral drills, puzzles, and communication activities.
Singing Grammar is part of the Cambridge Copy Collection. For each of the songs there is a clear page of teaching notes followed by a motivating song worksheet, a grammar exercise page and a fun grammar game for classroom use. The material is especially suitable for younger learners but could also be used successfully with adults.
