Product Description

Packed with practical advice drawn from the author's extensive experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer, this book can be used as a guide for innovative lessons or as an enjoyable read from cover to cover.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19171 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review

'This is a very good book, written by someone who clearly knows the job of English teaching.' - Adrian Beard, reviewed on NATE 

'However you see yourself as an English teacher there is something in this compact and intelligent book for you. What Trevor Wright does is to keenly focus on interactive and practical approaches to teaching English and gives superb examples of good practice... Buy this book, it will be money well spent!' - Ross Cotter, reviewed on Amazon

'This text offers plenty of detailed, practical advice for managing the learning in the classroom while also tackling the more demanding, bigger issues facing English teachers. It is full of good sense, is thoroughly engaging and inspires one to teach.' - Literacy

From the Back Cover

Packed with practical advice from Trevor’s own experiences, this anecdotal offering can be used as a supplementary resource or as a self-help guide. Addressing the many anxieties English teachers may face, it offers realistic solutions to:

* learning to plan
* living with objectives
* managing behaviour
* drama
* starting with Shakespeare.

Unearth innovative lesson ideas and exciting teaching principles in this cheerful and supportive book!

Customer Reviews

A brilliant book for brilliant (or other) english teachers!
However you see yourself as an English teacher there is something in this compact and intelligent book for you. What Trevor Wright does is to keenly focus on interactive and practical approaches to teaching English and gives superb examples of good practice. It has the strength, like all good training, of reinforcing your own good practice and extending it.

As a book for serving English teachers it is invaluable to suggest new approaches to texts, differentiation, drama, classroom involvement and so on. For trainees it is essential! It is the foundation of a good PGCE course on its own! I will certainly make it required reading for my trainees. Buy this book, it will be money well spent!

Invaluable for trainees and experienced teachers alike
I am reading this book in preparation for an English PGCE, and I'm finding it hard to put down. It's written in a way that makes it throughly enjoyable as well as informative, as it's packed with quotations and anecdotes. The book is a little pricey, but well worth the money if, as I'm sure they will, Trevor Wright's experience and insight are going to help me to teach even nearly as creatively and effectively as he writes.

Invaluable, especially to us still in training!
I found this book to be packed full of excellent practical advice which has already come in useful. Everything in this book is designed to be put into use in the classroom, unlike many other similar books which give nothing more than theoretical ideas which have more than a few dependent factors.

Trevor Wright will help you to put those ideas you have for your class/lesson into practice and show you how to make an ordinary lesson into a brilliant lesson. I highly recommend it.