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Yes, I remember using the "Headway" series and liking it a lot. I presume that must be an Oxbridge publication. Have you heard of the "Solutions" series? Do you recommend it?

Good to hear from you again after all these years, fluff : ) Tell me, is woodcutter still around? Anyway, back to the point, are there any other EFL publishing companies that come up to the level of Oxbridge? For that matter, are there even any other *countries* that do textbooks as well as England?

What is it about the Oxford and Cambridge EFL books that make them the best? Are there any other books as good?

Thank you, Sally : ) It's too bad that the only dances I know are Hokey Pokey and YMCA (Yea, I know, bloody Yanks )

Yea, I'm the same guy who posted the nursery rhyme query :roll: Turns out I've got to do some dances as well. Don't you love it when you have to dance in order to entertain your students? :wink: Actually, I don't mind, since I like my kids; however, I'd love to get some ideas. What dances have worke...

I'm going to be teaching a "fun" English class, and I need some ideas for nursery rhymes that work well. You know, get the kids up and excited. The country is China. Please share with me any nursery rhymes you have used that really got the kids happy and active.
Thank you

Right then, so, at the subtle suggestion of Sir Fluff-n-Puff, I've decided to give the little that I know of this Orff topic (I presumed you illustrious folk would know a lot more than I). So then, here in China, they talk a lot about this "Orff" method. To my mind, this is related to those ads you ...

Right-e-o Fluff! I'll go ahead and respond to my own post by telling what little I know about the topic ( I presumed you guys would know a lot more) and round it off with a link to boot! Exciting stuff, eh?

Thank you for the detailed answers, Fluff.
Now then, on a somewhat related topic, if you were to answer my other post about the Orff method, in your fluffyhamster kind of way, perhaps you could start another interesting discussion

So Fluff, the R&R book you're referring to is etitled "Approaches and methods in language teaching", no?

Does this get into the history of EFL teaching around the world?

Mr. Fluff mentioned Howatt's A History of ELT, but looking at the table of contents for this book, it is too extensive for my current interests. I'd rather get a more general, user-friendly book that gives a gentler overview. Is Richards and Rogers such a book? If not, please give me a title I can h...

Is the Orff method very popular in China? If it is, then is there any overlap between the Orff method and teaching English to the very young kids? Are we, as teachers, likely to see the Orff method being used in any schools we might be hired at?

Oh, yeah, here you go Sir Fluff - another one for number 1:

"Rat Fink a Boo-Boo" was a very good movie.

Damn, I wish I had the energy and knowledge to answer these kinds of questions. Maybe after I read my Swann and Murphy, I'll be able to

My own experience is that most of the grammar books that are published for our students are written by the Brits. This also might be the case for the grammar books that we English teachers read to brush up on our grammar knowledge. Now, my own conspiracy theory is that, long ago, the Brits started r...