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    From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book
    From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book
    From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book
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    From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book

    By Daniel Barber and Duncan Foord

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    39 activities to get organised, get motivated and get practising!
    This book is to help you spend more time practising English. It contains activities to practise your English and organise and motivate yourself to practise more. There are activities:
    -you can do on your own or with other learners when you are not in class
    -you can do at home or on the street
    -that take 3 minutes or 30 minutes
    -which practise speaking ,writing, reading and listening
    -which help you to get organised and get motivated with your English

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Barber
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311551665
    From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book
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    Daniel Barber

    Daniel Barber. I am a teacher, teacher trainer and TESOL writer based in Cádiz, Spain. I co-authored The Big Picture Advanced course book, published by Richmond and write regularly for Macmillan and OneStopEnglish.Duncan Foord. I am the Director of OxfordTEFL a teacher training and language school with centres in Barcelona and Prague. I am based in Barcelona and am author of The Developing Teacher, published by DELTA Publishing, and co-author, with Lindsay Clandfield, of The Language Teacher’s Survival Handbook, published by iT’s Magazines.

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      From English Teacher to Learner Coach Student's Book - Daniel Barber

      Introduction

      This book is to help you spend more time practising English. It contains activities to practise your English and organise and motivate yourself to practise more. There are activities:

      • you can do on your own or with other learners when you are not in class.

      • you can do at home or ’on the street‘.

      • that take 3 minutes or 30 minutes.

      • which practise speaking ,writing, reading and listening.

      • which help you to get organised and get motivated with your English.

      Why should I use this book?

      Let’s compare learning English to another skill: learning to play a musical instrument, like the violin. Normally, musicians spend an hour or two every week in a classroom with their music teacher. But the teacher expects her students to practise a lot at home, perhaps as much as an hour every day! Musicians recognise that they need teachers to teach them how to play, but they know that lessons are not enough. The difference between a successful musician and an unsuccessful musician is the time they spend practising.

      Learning a language is similar. It’s important to learn new information about the language, such as the meaning of a new word, or when to use the past simple. Your teacher is a good person to teach you this. But you also have to practise your language skills, such as speaking, listening, reading and writing. Think about the amount of practice a violinist needs to play well. Are you getting enough English practice?

      Maybe you only have two or three hours of English class a week (or no class), so you need to find more time for your English, just as a violinist needs to find time for music practice. This book suggests things you can do when you’re not in class and which allow you to keep practising English in different ways, at different times of day, for different periods of time.

      My English Language Life

      You will see that there are no grammar exercises or specific new words to learn in this book. A course book or grammar reference book will mostly help you study English. This book will help you practise.

      Some of the activities in this book are things that you normally do in your own language. They encourage you to experience using English in real life. With them you can make English more a part of your daily routine. One example is the activity called Shopping list. The activity suggests that when you go shopping, you write your shopping list in English, instead of your own language. You’ll be using English when you are shopping and extending what we call your English language life. In this way, you’ll develop and improve as an English user, and not just as an English learner.

      My Choice

      Another difference between this book and traditional homework is choice. You can choose which activities to do, or you can decide not to do some of them at all. You can do the same one many times if you like it. To give you an example, the activity Listening to a song doesn’t tell you which song to listen to. You choose. If you enjoy doing the activity and think it’s a good way to practise English, you could do it again with a different song next week. You decide!

      How the book is organised

      The activities are divided into three sections:

      Motivate! 6 activities to get you thinking about why you learn and what helps you learn.

      Organise! 6 activities to

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