Written by James A. Maxwell, Making Every MFL Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Modern Foreign Language Teaching shows modern foreign languages (MFL) teachers how to take their students on a learning journey that both educates and inspires.Written in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count series, this book equips teachers with evidence-informed strategies to improve students' attainment, engagement, and enthusiasm in the...

James A. Maxwell's M aking Every MFL Lesson Count: Six principles to support modern foreign language teaching shows modern foreign languages (MFL) teachers how they can take their students on a learning journey that both educates and inspires.Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, experienced MFL teacher James A. Maxwell empowers educators with the strategies and know-how to boost their students'...

Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn and act. Some are more successful than others in infl uencing our behavior and choices. What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior? This book analyzes advertising beyond the persuasive power of the imagery itself. It explains the psychology behind 33 effective influence techniques in visual persuasion and how to apply them. The techniq...

For two years now I've been regularly blogging about ELT-related issues that have caught my attention. The topics have been loosely organized around the format of an encyclopaedic dictionary I'd published previously, called An A-Z of ELT. I've since clocked up over a hundred posts that in turn have attracted thousands of comments comprising I don't know how many tens of thousands of words.A couple of things that have emerged from this 'long conversation' are: (1) the same issues com...

How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?How can young people engage with new ideas and cultural experiences within and outside the classroom?The new edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice and inspiration for training teachers, NQTs and teachers in their early professional development. Written by a team of expert professionals, it offers a wide ra...

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with this practical guide.The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an internationally renowned way of analysing a person’s personality type and thus learning more about how they react and think. With this comprehensive guide, you will be able to use your own profile in order to select a career that is best suited to you and understand how knowing other ...

This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning.Neil Jones, Assistant HeadteacherLearning a language, especially in a class or group, is an intensely practical subject. Active participation by students is the key to successful...

Here are 99 enjoyable activities, for 11-16 year olds, to coax, cajole and tempt them into learning English. The authors, drawing on their own vast experience, share ideas on maintaining discipline, using ice-breakers, warmers, fillers, developing vocabulary and using literature.

This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area.This book will equip non-specialists to confidently deliver engaging and well-informed lessons, that acount for the changes in the National Curriculum.This is a very practical and easy to apply programme for teaching French either in your own classroom, or to implement across the school in the role of a co-ordinator.

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve:making learning multi-sensoryensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learnermatching types of learning to the gender of pupilsusing the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brainmanaging the classroom environment to make i...

Ready to take your business to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about brainstorming with this practical guide.In an increasingly competitive business world, companies must seek out ways to set themselves apart from their rivals and offer their customers something different. This requires careful thought, creativity and innovation. When used effectively, brainstorming is a fantastic tool for drawing on the insights and experiences of all team mem...

Breaking the ice while having fun. Seriously?Do you think it is impossible to create and reach peak performance within a team while having fun?Wrong! This is perfectly possible and YOU cand do it for your own team!Our « Team Building inside » booklets collection will prove it!Discover energizing and playful activities which will help you to create and live the team spirit!We have more of a decade of experie...