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

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Product Description

This text gathers together 81 classroom proven strategies designed to build or reinforce the langiage skills of intermediate to advanced students.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company (November 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201065096
• ISBN-13: 978-0201065091
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #856,650 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Recipes for Tired Teachers, November 30, 2000

By	"corkandbeans" (Seattle, Wa USA) - See all my reviews

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.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful Resource, May 15, 2004

By	T. Hooper "thdizzy" (Osaka, Japan) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Humm!, October 8, 2009

By	Addy Eli - See all my reviews

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.