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R. S. Refugee
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 Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: Does anyone remember that free online esl textbook? |
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There was a post on here recently asking about teaching materials. One of the replies mentioned a free online text at some website. I visited there and liked the text but I've lost track of it and can't find the post.
Does anyone remember that post? I'd like to find that book again.
Thanks. (Sorry to provide such sketchy info.) |
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TeeBee
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:01 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure if this is the one, but here's a link for an online textbook:
http://iteslj.org/t/tmm/ |
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R. S. Refugee
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:08 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, TeeBee. That was the one I was looking for. |
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ddeubel
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TECO
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| That's great! |
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Dazed and Confused
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Most of the publishers will send out a sample copy if you request one. Go to their websites directly. |
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ricky_lamour
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Do a torrent search for Oxford New Headway. It goes from beginner up to advanced with student books, teachers notes and workbooks all in PDF format. Its aimed at adult learners but for anyone at middle school or higher it is, quite seriously, the business and you shouldn't be using kids materials for them anyway.
Unfortunately i can't find a torrent with the audio to accompany the books. Can anyone help? |
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daz1979
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| No info.... Just keeping thread on my profile |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ricky_lamour wrote: |
Do a torrent search for Oxford New Headway. It goes from beginner up to advanced with student books, teachers notes and workbooks all in PDF format. Its aimed at adult learners but for anyone at middle school or higher it is, quite seriously, the business and you shouldn't be using kids materials for them anyway.
Unfortunately i can't find a torrent with the audio to accompany the books. Can anyone help? |
Headway is the business?
If you like boring your students to death it is. |
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ricky_lamour
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I meant for teaching. Not entertaining.
Its what you do with it that counts. |
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Easter Clark
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ricky_lamour wrote: |
Its aimed at adult learners but for anyone at middle school or higher it is, quite seriously, the business and you shouldn't be using kids materials for them anyway.
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I absolutely disagree! You should always target your lessons to the interests of your students--especially the younger ones. Kids do not have the attention span / patience / discipline of an adult. They likely don't want to be learning English in the first place, so the least we can do as their teachers is to try to build our lessons with their age group in mind...the least! |
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ricky_lamour
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Dear Mr Easter Bunny,
It depends on who you are teaching. I agree with you if its for my normal PS classes where 90% of the kids act like Ralph Wiggum. But for the after school classes where students come to learn I wholly disagree. Treat them like adults because thats what they (nearly) are. They want to desperately break into the adult way of looking at the world which means using adult language in adult contexts.
And to Mrs Squirrel let me just clarify that ALL text books are boring. At least Headway is well planned and well graded. Used at the right time of a lesson for the right length of time it pisses over the competition. IMO
Ricky Lamour |
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ddeubel
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Easter Clark
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| ricky_lamour wrote: |
Dear Mr Easter Bunny,
It depends on who you are teaching. I agree with you if its for my normal PS classes where 90% of the kids act like Ralph Wiggum. But for the after school classes where students come to learn I wholly disagree. Treat them like adults because thats what they (nearly) are. They want to desperately break into the adult way of looking at the world which means using adult language in adult contexts.
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Nice to see that you agree with me 90% of the time. 
Not all students in after school classes want to be there--many are there because they have to be, either because of their parents or homeroom teachers. And "adult" language is no different from any other type of language--it's the context in which the language is presented that we're concerned with here. I don't advocate teaching material that draws from references outside the scope of a teenager's experience, but if using adult materials for kids works for you and your students, then more power to you! I will quote ddeubel that we can agree to disagree here. |
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