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Reading Extra: A Resource Book of Multi-level Skills Activities (Cambridge Copy Collection) by Liz Driscoll This book uses many authentic sources such as factual texts, newspaper articles, features and TV schedules, instruction manuals, everyday signs, stories, quizzes, emails and diary entries. Students are encouraged to read material on different levels and in different ways, such as reading for gist, scanning, skimming, comprehension, analysing structure, summarising and shadow reading. Order from UK | US | Canada Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Tessa Woodward Excellent book if you are studying for TEFL exam Great ideas for planning lessons and courses. Lots of useful information for anyone studying for TEFL exams or a new teacher looking for ideas. Good advise and practical activities. Takes the chore out of planning, with some true stories and enthusiasm. Order from UK | US | Canada Study Skills in English: Student's Book by Michael Wallace A complete course for students who are currently attending a university or college or who hope to begin university or college studies soon. Order from UK | US | Canada Cognition and Second Language Instruction (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) The influence of cognitive processing on second language acquisition (SLA), and on the development of second language (SL) instruction, has always been a subject of major interest to both SLA researchers and those involved in SL pedagogy. Recent theoretical research into SLA and SL pedagogy has shown renewed interest in the role of cognitive variables such as attention, short, working, and long term memory, and automaticity of language processing. This volume first examines the theoretical fo... Order from UK | US | Canada Find more ELT books