This book is a collection of absorbing and thought-provoking questionnaires and quizzes with related activities for students of English at upper-intermediate and more advanced levels. Questions requiring a personal response from the reader can serve as an enjoyable and provocative starting-point for fluency practice in the language classroom. The book is designed for use in the classroom, but much of the material can be used by students working alone. Those sections best suited to the individ...

This is the second of three books in the "Communication Games" series. It offers a collection of 40 games, a variety of activities, including guessing, matching, searching, role-play and simulation, specific functional areas for each activity and photocopiable copy-masters.

Brilliant book packed full of great stuff
I'm moving to a new school and was going to copy parts of this book before I left (ssshh!) but then I realised that I will miss so much of it, so I've decided to get my own copy.
Stuff that springs to mind...
Bingo - time, phone numbers, irregular verbs
A day in the life of... - info gap for times routines
Routines - cards, interview forms
the adverb game - mime adverbs
the BEST Tefl activity EVER! - Ask and Tell ga...

The author shows how similarities and differences between languages can influence grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation acquisition. In the paperback edition, Terence Odlin reconsiders a question that many language teachers and educational researchers have addressed: How much influence can a learner's native language have in making the acquisition of a new language easy or difficult? Transfer has long been a controversial issue, but many recent studies support the view that cross-linguistic ...