Articles published in the ‘Issue 25: Autumn 2008’ Category
Negotiating Susan Lowe and Louise Pile Delta Publishing Reviewed by Helen Ray, IH Santiago Another one to add to the series of business communication skills books from Delta publishing, which already includes telephoning, socializing and emailing. This short book, again for Pre Intermediate – Intermediate level students, concentrates on the language and strategies for conducting negotiations and ...
Assessing Speaking Sari Luoma Cambridge University Press Reviewed by Nick Kiley, IH Hanoi Several years ago, after having been teaching for a short amount of time, I was sent to a company to do some placement testing of the spoken language of various soon-to-be-recipients of English classes provided by our school. There were several STBRs, so two teachers were ...
Did you know? There have been 11 IH YL Conferences. The first was held in IH Krakow in 1997; Approximately 50 participants attend this annual event; Over 85 schools within the IH Affiliate network teach Young Learners; The IH Course in Young Learners (IHCYL) started in 2001; Over 180 teachers have taken the course in 2008 alone; 41 IH schools are ...
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by Edward Anderson 1. Teacher’s log 20.05.07, Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, Australia. I’ve just arrived at the marina and stowed my pack aboard the ketch Wanderer. My job is to help sail this fifty-three foot spaceship from Australia to Singapore with her owners, a retired Belgian couple. Everything is mechanised – I can’t see my sail-hoisting muscles surviving ...
by Robert Buckmaster Once upon a time a teacher came to talk to me about his advanced classes. He was worried that they didn’t seem to be making much progress and he was dreading having a learner complain about the classes. He was an excellent teacher and very conscientious. He told me that the learners seemed ...
by Michael Berman Level: Pre-Intermediate / Intermediate Target Audience: Adults Language / Skills Focus: Listening, Speaking & 2nd Conditional Materials: Photocopies of the worksheets to hand out after the storytelling. IN CLASS Pre-listening: You could start with a brainstorming session to find out what the learners know about the place where the story comes from. The learners could be asked to prepare ...
Editorial IH History The Tale of Babel en España – Brita Haycraft Classroom Matters Focus on Feedback: Examining Alternative Methods for Efficiency and Effectiveness – Gabrielle Bonner and David King The Chief and the Wanderer – Michael Berman Course and Syllabus Design Charting the course – planning a new program from start to finish – Christina Smolder A Failure of Imagination? – ...
Kallimni ‘Arabi Bishweesh is part of a planned series of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic course books for adults. As the first of this series, It combines authentic everyday cultural content, comprehensive grammar, and real-life functional language. and complies with the guidelines for teaching and learning Arabic of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages ...
by Michael Carrier IH Growth The IH network continues to grow steadily as we identify new high-quality schools around the world. We are now 150 schools in 53 countries, and we hope to reach the target of 55 countries very shortly - as this year we celebrate the 55th anniversary of International House, founded in Spain in ...