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Gill Johnson

    January 1, 1964
    Love From Venice
    The Lost Sock
    Monster Hospital
    English for Everyone. Practice Book. Level 3 Intermediate.
    How to Draw Everything
    DELTA Teacher Development Series: Culture in our Classrooms
    • 2024

      A charming, funny and glamorous memoir and love-story, about a summer in 1957 in Venice, working for an aristocratic Italian family.

      Love From Venice
    • 2017

      Culture in our classrooms

      Teaching Language through cultural content

      This resource emphasizes the significance of culture in English Language Teaching, offering relevant and engaging lesson content. It features over 80 practical communicative activities designed to help students become aware of target-culture norms, understand their own and others' beliefs, and empathize across cultural boundaries. The book is divided into three parts: Part A explores definitions of culture, examining the beliefs behind behaviors and the deep connection between culture and language. It suggests that integrating culture as classroom content enables meaningful communication and engagement. Part B provides a variety of activities that promote critical thinking and communication among students. These activities encourage reflection and sharing, organized into four chapters that enhance cultural awareness, explore language's cultural connotations, develop thinking frameworks for study, and focus on an English-speaking country. Part C addresses culture within Teacher Development, offering 16 practical exercises for staffroom sessions. These exercises target four key skill areas for personal and professional growth: observation, listening, rapport building, and empathy. This comprehensive approach aims to enrich both student learning and teacher effectiveness in culturally diverse classrooms.

      Culture in our classrooms
    • 2016

      Our Course Book (Level 3) is a great reference guide to introduce English at an intermediate stage including key language skills, grammar, and vocabulary. Ideal for English test preparations or ESL lesson plans, the Course Book uses visual teaching methods to introduce the English language, reinforced through a variety of exercises and examples when used alongside our Practice Book (Level 3). Expand your conversational English in Level 3 by increasing the detail around your interests, life stories, and achievements, as well as being able to give instructions, advice, or solutions to problems. Improve your vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation to an intermediate level in this comprehensive guide to practical English usage. Whether you are looking for ESL teaching resources, or a structured programme for adults to learn English as a second language, the English for Everyone Course Books provide: - Sample language examples: New language topics are introduced in context using clear, illustrated, and colour coded explanations - Supporting audio: Extensive English-speaking audio materials integrated into every unit, giving vital oral and listening practice. (All supplementary audio is available on the DK English for Everyone website and IOS/Android App). - Quick referencing: Easy-to-follow units, mirrored in both the Course and Practice Books for easy referencing and teaching - Sentence formation guides: Visual break downs of English grammar in use, showing learners how to recreate even complex English sentences - Visual English vocabulary cues: Lists of useful English words and common phrases with visual aids are available throughout the book - Personalised learning: Write-on lines encourage ESL learners to write their own prompts and translations where needed to help customise English language learning The English for Everyone Level 3 resources cover the skills and topics required for all major global English-language exams and reference frameworks including: - CEFR: B1 - lower B2 - TOEFL (test paper): 340-520 - TOEFL (computer-based test): 60-200 - TOEFL (online test): 20-70 - IELTS: 3.5-5.5 - TOEIC: 500-850 English for Everyone is a series of guides and practice books that supports English learning for adults from a beginner level, to intermediate, and advanced practical English. Offering an easy-to-follow format that offers guidance for both teaching English as a foreign language, and a self-study approach with resources available to improve English speaking, reading and writing.

      English for everyone: Intermediate, level 3
    • 2016
    • 2015

      How to Draw Everything

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      How to draw anything and everything, including the kitchen sink . . .Gillian Johnson, the renowned illustrator and artist, invites you to let your inner artist come out to play. Her full-colour drawings and sketches provide a starting point and inspiration for having a go yourself. With unfinished drawings to complete, and plenty of space for you to experiment and improvise, this is a joyous way to discover your untapped artistic talents.Starting with easy projects and quick sketches of the objects around you at home, the book progresses through a series of fun and challenging ideas that you can try for yourself. Whether drawing flowers, hands or faces, or using shading, perspective or different styles, this is a great way to lose your inhibitions and get drawing.

      How to Draw Everything
    • 2014

      When a man loses one of his favourite pair of socks at the laundromat, he sets out on a quest to find out what happens to lost socks, and why every sock drawer contains a plethora of single socks.

      The Lost Sock
    • 2012

      Monster Hospital

      Big, Fat, Smelly Ogre

      Frank the ogre has come to Monster Hospital with a tummy ache because he ate two nasty kids for breakfast. The four naughtiest children in the school are recruited by the mysterious Sister Winifred to be his doctors. Can these not-exactly friends help Frank without getting gobbled up or suffocating from the stupendous stink? It takes a monster to know a monster ... And read more stories in the Monster Hospital series by the acclaimed author-illustrator of the THORA books.

      Monster Hospital
    • 2010