 | Practical English Usage by Michael Swan
Buy used from: $1.69 Even veterans need this. Keep handy for that esoteric question that may pop up about the English language and how the concept is used in real-life
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 | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker
Buy used from: $0.67 Some knowledge of how the brain acquires L2 language is mandatory. Many of these Applied Linguistic examples can be related to your students and help them
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 | Five-Minute Activities: A Resource Book of Short Activities (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Penny Ur
Buy new: $21.84 / Used from: $16.50 Many warmers, and these can be modified to complete and full activities. Anything by Penny Ur is good
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 | Keep Talking: Communicative Fluency Activities for Language Teaching (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Friederike Klippel
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $15.20 Over 100 Activities. Levels can be modified to suit your class. Charts at the back
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 | Grammar Games: Cognitive, Affective and Drama Activities for EFL Students by Mario Rinvolucri
Buy new: $26.11 / Used from: $10.77 Some strange notes by the authors. Again, these activities can be adapted
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 | More Grammar Games: Cognitive, Affective and Movement Activities for EFL Students by Paul Davis
Buy new: $24.96 / Used from: $18.00 Grammar Games reduex. I like this one better
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 | Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Bruce Marsland
Buy new: $21.84 / Used from: $14.96 Provides lot of ideas that you can add-on to
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 | English Grammar (COBUILD) by University of Alabama
Buy used from: $1.56 This book is better organized for you to find the information you're looking for than Swan's. If you TEFL, this book, or "Practical English Usage" is a must. This one is better
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 | Essential Grammar in Use With Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Elementary Students of English by Raymond Murphy
Buy used from: $10.95 All of Raymond Murphy's books will help introduce, explain, and test comprehension and usage of grammar points. Great supplemental material for main texts. Especially for those with grammar problems
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 | Grammarchants: Student Book (Jazz Chants) by Carolyn Graham
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $3.22 All of Carolyn Graham's work are helpful. An EFL instructor for over 25 years, she has provided a way to introduce and review grammar, stress & intonation, and vocabulary expansion.
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| The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom (Language Teaching Methodology) by Stephen D. Krashen
Buy used from: $49.90 Krashen's 5 hypothesese: Input, Monitor, Affective Filter etc., are known latently, but reading further into them will help.
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