A-Z of Global Issues (Photocopiables) - Softcover

Pratten, Ms Julie; Ruas, Ms Linda; Waldron, Ms Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995670137 ISBN 13: 9780995670136

Publisher: Academic Study Kit, 2017

Synopsis

A–Z of Global Issues is a photocopiable resource book containing 26 interesting and engaging activities, discussions and role plays, designed to bring real issues facing the world into the classroom. It comes with user-friendly teaching notes, which outline the language focus, level, type of activity, timing and suggested lesson plan. The activities are suitable for business and general ELT students, ESOL, university students and pre-experience learners.

About this title

About the Author

Julie Pratten has extensive experience in the design of materials for general and business English. She has implemented training programmes in over 25 countries, including Germany, Turkey, Brazil and the UK. More recently, she has turned her attention to global issues and is IATEFL Global Issues SIG Events Coordinator and founder of Heart ELT. Linda Ruas has been teaching and training teachers for many years, in Brazil, Japan and now back home in London. Recently she’s worked on projects in São Tomé and Príncipe, taught refugees at a camp in Calais and trained volunteer teachers of refugees in Greece. She currently teaches ESOL and CELTA at LSEC, London, is IATEFL Global Issues SIG Joint Coordinator and runs the New Internationalist Easier English wiki. Helen Waldron started her teaching career in her late teens, working on the Liverpool adult literacy programme. With three decades of teaching and coaching experience, she runs her own in-company language training business in the Hamburg area. She is also the Vice Chair of HELTA, where she campaigns for author and teacher welfare. Recently, she wrote What’s your Teaching Identity? and contributed to the Heart ELT project A–Z of Hope. Helen holds an MEd in Applied Linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Study Kit
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0995670137
• ISBN 13: 9780995670136
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 86