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An excellent new textbook for English as a foreign language courses has just been published. "Ready, Set, Teach! Ready-Made, Creative Lessons for the English Classroom" by Brett Jocelyn Epstein offers forty complete English lessons, each of which includes activities, questions for discussion and/or individual writing, vocabulary, and suggestions for grammar practice. All activities combine reading, writing, speaking, listening, and imagining, for maximum learning reinforcement. They are appropriate for use in either high school or adult education English as a foreign language classes.



Creative and Stimulating

These lessons have been designed to get students involved in and excited about learning English. The activities are fun and imaginative and they require students to think, listen, speak, read, write, and create. Students will read and write poems or short stories, play word games, write newspaper articles or book reviews, create advertisements or commercials and try to sell products to their classmates, learn about common mistakes non-native speakers of English make, practice spelling or pronunciation, perform plays or scenes, interview one another, invent new sports or political parties, and much more.



Varied and Flexible

Every activity comes with two or three variations; often one variation involves writing, while another might include performing or presenting, and a third is based on creating or inventing. This important feature provides teachers and students with unmatched choice regarding the type of activity to utilize in any given learning situation. The activities are easily adapted to different skill levels, for unique learning flexibility. Similarly, there is a wide choice of questions and subjects for discussion and/or writing, and these questions can be either used after an activity or simply as a pedagogical tool to get students writing or talking.



Ready-Made and Easy to Use

Each lesson is complete, though the individual parts are also self-contained, and can be used on a stand-alone basis or to complement other coursework. All a teacher has to do is pick an appropriate lesson and photocopy it for classroom use. Everything has been prepared for the teacher, and is presented in an easy-to-understand format for the students.



"Ready, Set, Teach! Ready-Made, Creative Lessons for the English Classroom" is a book that will inject new and invigorating features into English class while also eliminating tedious preparation work so the teacher can concentrate on assisting the students in the most effective manner. This book lets both students and teachers concentrate on what each wants and needs to do most. Now, get ready, get set, and teach!



About the author: Brett Jocelyn Epstein comes originally from Chicago and has lived in Sweden since 2001. She has a BA in literature and creative writing from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and an MFA in creative writing from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Brett teaches English at a variety of schools and companies, and she also translates from Swedish to English, writes articles, educational material, and stories, and copy edits. Please see her website http://www.awaywithwords.se for more information or to contact her. The book is available through Brett or else at http://studentlitteratur.se/o.o.i.s/2474artnr=31930-01.






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