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Recipes for Tired Teachers : Well-Seasoned Activities for the Esol Classroom

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This is an overall great "idea" book for the ESL classroom.It is basically a book of activities for each different aspect of language teaching. It devotes entire units to more difficult-to-teach topics such as developing listening skills. Most of the activities are extremely interactional and would enhance student's communicative abilities, either directly or indirectly. This book is a great resource for finding just the right activity for your lesson plan. All activities are also easily adaptable for level and for subject area.

Recipies for Tired Teachers is a book filled with lots of activities for the English language classroom for students who are studying English as a second language. The activities here are not short activities. They generally range from 30 minutes to 1 hour in length. This can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your requirements. If you're looking for short warm-up ideas to begin class with, this book is not a good source. Also, if you have a tightly planned curriculum, you may find it difficult to fit these activites in. I find that these activities are good when you have to teach a class unexpectedly and you need a quick plan. Most of these activities can be stretched to a whole hour. Be warned though. These activities are for fairly high level students and include a lot of discussion and story-making ideas. If your students are mostly low-level students, you may not find this to be very useful. If your needs call for long activities for high-level students, this is a wonderful book.

Sometimes we find it difficult to motivate our students. With this book you'll learn new procedures to catch your students' attention and motivation. It is always good to surprise them.

What tired teachers need is a fabulous salary! Not a book. With a fantastic salary motivation is brought about. What tired teachers need is to give one class a week and earn 10 thousand dollars for that class. Then a class will be well prepared and the teacher will be able to make sure students' needs are well catered for.