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MELEE · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Our school gets most of our books this way. We order them through the Mexican book stores. Most of the time it works out well. Sometimes it doesn't and we wait and wait for a book the claim to be getting for us until we finally give up and take another route. But MOST of the time its fine. We go through DELTI in Mexico City and they send it on to us at their expense. FoxandMe if you can wait until you get to Mexico City for the book, they probably have it at one of DELTI's many locations.

I would like to point something out to my fellow teachers. In the case where Leslie wanted an IELTS book for a student. If you want a course book like say Insight into IELTS, you contact the publisher's reps here in Mexico and you say you are considering starting a course in IELTS preparation and are in the market for an IELTS prep textbook. They will be more than happy to send you a free sample copy of the book. They don't usually send the cassettes, teacher's book, or workbook, until you say yes, we are going to use this book and we will have XXX number of students in the course and we will have them BUY your book for this course. But meanwhile you have your one free copy. If you want to use it with one or two students, then all you have to buy is the cassette.

Fatcat · Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 92 Location: Athens, Georgia

CDaniels, I checked out "The Mother Tongue" and I LOVE it!! I'll probably read it twice or end up buying it. I'm only half way through but recommend it for anyone who considers him/herself a language dork like me.

MELEE · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject:

grahamcito · Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 90 Location: Guadalajara

A mini-boom in poppy books on correct/incorrect English is in full swing in the UK right now. At Christmas, all the bookshops were stuffed with them. It all started with Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' (on the state of punctuation today), which I finally got around to opening a week ago when a friend lent me a copy. Ohmigod it's terrible. I had to stop reading after 50 pages because it was making me too angry. The author had such a poor grasp of English language I was wincing.

So avoid that one.

But another good one is Kingsley Amis's 'The King's English'. Anyone read that? Are you a 'berk' or a 'w*nker'?