Archive for February 2012
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Heads and tails
by Ken Paterson
The last two units in ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details), deal with ‘heads’ and ‘tails’, both of which involve the repetition of information outside the normal English clause structure. Heads (also called ‘headers’ by Carter and McCarthy in the ‘Cambridge Grammar of [...]
Read more »Wednesday 8 February 2012
From EFL to EAP: A shift in skills
by Louis Rogers
Many people who teach English in summer schools or evening classes around the world will probably spend little time teaching writing skills. The focus tends to be on communication and writing tasks are kept to a minimum. When students are asked to write it will often be for homework or in an exam and little [...]
Read more »Wednesday 8 February 2012
Using synonymous language
by Ken Paterson
For better or worse, we often seem to repeat what the person we’re talking to has just said: - The traffic is awful today. - I know. Terrible, isn’t it? When we were researching ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details), we noticed three [...]
Read more »Wednesday 1 February 2012
February’s Delta Download
February's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 4 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.
Read more »Wednesday 1 February 2012
Humanising Your Coursebook – Part 4
Download Part 4 in our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri here for FREE. Humanising Your Coursebook, part of the Professional Perspectives series, provides a wide range of original, imaginative, humanistic activities and techniques which will give new life to any coursebook. Designed to appeal to teachers wishing to diversify or experiment, and to [...]
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