How To Write Excellent Elt Materials

Download or read book How to Write Excellent ELT Materials written by Caroline Krantz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELT Teacher 2 Writer have combined six key titles from their ELT writer training series to create a complete course in writing four skills material. It also includes chapters on how to write vocabulary activities, critical thinking activities, and audio and video scripts. The contributing authors are all experts in their field, and have written international best-selling ELT courses.

Download or read book How To Write ESP Materials written by Ros Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an essential title in the toolkit of any writer of English for Specific Purposes materials. No two English learners have the same requirements in the world of ESP. As a result, ESP teachers often find that generic published material doesn't work and that they need to write material for the specific needs of their students. This book examines the principle areas of concern for the ESP materials-writer: real-world tasks, authentic materials, vocabulary and ultimately the need to maximize opportunities for learners to improve language performance in their given professional environment. This book provides: - a simple but adaptable framework to help you design your own ESP materials, regardless of the area in which you teach.- examples from a wide variety of ESP fields.- practical tasks with detailed keys and a glossary.- a guide to highlight the different steps involved in producing your own ESP materials.This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials

Download or read book How To Write CLIL Materials written by Amanda McLoughlin and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) materials are typically used in bilingual and international schools where school subjects are taught in the target language. This is an area of ELT that is difficult to publish global materials for and throws up a different set of challenges for the ELT writer. Is the syllabus driven by the language or the subject? How can you support the linguistic demands without watering down the subject content? How can assessment avoid penalising students who are good at the subject, but weaker at English? Once you can answer these questions, you'll be able to develop materials that, according to recent research, help learners not only outperform their non-CLIL peers in English, but also in science, maths and even in their mother tongue.This book provides: - dozens of illustrative examples from published CLIL materials.- guidance on liaising with other departments.- reflective tasks and suggested answers.- a checklist to evaluate the CLIL materials that you'll create.This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials

Download or read book How To Write EAP Materials written by Julie Moore and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more students are studying English these days because it's simply imperative for their studies. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) material aims to teach students not only the language they need for their studies, but also the key study skills. EAP is taught in many varied settings around the world, and generic published materials often do not meet the requirements of the individual institutions, meaning that teachers frequently have to supplement with their own materials.This book provides: - an in-depth discussion of the challenges of writing excellent skills- and language-based EAP materials.- a checklist at the end of each section to help you review the material you've written.- frequent tasks to focus on the crucial issues.- footnotes to explain technical terms and an alphabetical glossary for a 'dip in and out' reading experience.This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

Download or read book How To Write Primary Materials written by Katherine Bilsborough and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for Primary is, as you may imagine, creative and fun. But don't make the mistake of thinking that primary materialsare easier to write than more 'dense' materials for teenagers or adults. This is not the case, and multi-talented author KathBilsborough provides essential background information about the particular challenges of writing for this age group - an agewhen children are developing their cognitive skills at the same time as they are learning English.This book provides: -a useful list of activities that work well for primary.-detailed advice on writing stories, games, rhymes, chants, tongue twisters and songs.-tasks that give you a chance to write your own activities and compare them with Kath's published materials.-regular quotes and examples from other primary writers.This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

Download or read book How To Write Business English Materials written by John Allison and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe you can bring some added value to students and teachers, and give them something that hasn't been done before? Can you make the world of budgets, milestones, stock-keeping and accounting fun at eight o'clock on a Monday morning or last thing on a Friday evening? If you can answer yes to both questions, you should be writing Business English materials and this book will show you the key skills and get you past the 'blank page' stage.This book provides: - self-contained chapters on each of the principal types of activity you'll need to write.- writing assignments in each chapter with guidance on writing your own activity and piloting it in your class.- reflective tasks and suggested answers.- footnotes to explain technical terms and an alphabetical glossary for a 'dip in and out' reading experience.This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials

Download or read book How To Write Graded Readers written by Sue Leather and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sue Leather has been writing ELT Graded Readers for well over 20 years and in this engaging and informative module she shares her experience for others to learn from.Sue starts with an overview of the Graded Readers market which helps the reader of this module to think about who the target audience is. She then moves on to look at the preparation and research that goes into writing a Graded Reader, including tips for approaching publishers with your work. In the section entitled 'The Skills of Writing' Sue unpacks the skills required for crafting both an original Graded Reader and an adaptation of a classic, constantly reminding the reader to keep a balance between a good engaging story and an appropriate level of language input. She also includes a section on the drafting and editing stages which are so key to working with a publisher.Punctuated with tasks (with full commentaries) to get the reader thinking about the Graded Reader genre, this is a practical guide to writing for an interesting, and growing, sector of the English Language Teaching materials market. Sue's enthusiasm for the genre is inspiring.This module forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The training modules are designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.