 | Keep Talking: Communicative Fluency Activities for Language Teaching (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Friederike Klippel
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $12.93 You will be teaching a lot of conversation classes. Teaching a conversation class seems like a no-brainer to a native speaker with no experience but it's not. This reference will keep your students talking and you from burning out.
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 | Grammar Practice Activities: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Penny Ur
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $4.00 Grammar is not a dirty word. However, not getting your students to practice the grammar that you have just sweated blood to teach them, sets them up for failure. Do yourself a favor teach a little and make them practice a lot.
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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: $16.64 Your lessons never go perfectly according to plan. Five-Minute Activities gives you a buffer at the beginning and end of class to make the most of your time.
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 | Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Buy used from: $33.98 You will need to give example sentence using the new vocabulary you just taught. This dictionary cuts lesson preparation time way down. You'd rather be in the local coffee house hanging out with your friends right?
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 | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $12.50 As an ESL teacher, you are the walking expert on everything in your culture. So teacher could you tell me about Malthusianism? I wish, I could say that last line was a bad joke but its not. I wasn't an expert on my own culture but can now hold my own with any diplomat. This book will make you look omniscient to your students. Your students are going to worship you so try not to let them down.
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 | English Sentence Structure (Intensive Course in English Series) by Michigan English Language Institute
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $3.70 All the sentence patterns you will need to drill it into their subconsciouses. Its not fun or friendly but your students and your boss will expect it from you. Don't disappoint them, be prepared.
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 | Grammar for English Language Teachers: With Exercises and a Key by Martin Parrott
Buy new: $26.73 / Used from: $19.49 You need a desk reference for review. This book is half the size and more usable then the reference I have dragged over three continents during the past 20 years. You don't want it but you will need it.
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 | Pronunciation Contrasts in English by Don L. F. Nilsen
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $10.84 Are you tired of foreigners with bad accents? This tool gives you what they need to make that "L" into an "R". Yes they really want to give you "rice" not "lice".
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 | ESL Teacher's Activities Kit by Elizabeth Claire
Buy used from: $17.03 You won't make much money teaching ESL to little kids but you will get most of your joy and job satisfaction from them. This book will keep your lessons creative and entertaining.
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 | Drawing Textbook by Bruce McIntyre
Buy used from: $68.58 Students may not always have picture dictionaries or sometimes even textbooks. But you will always have at least a blackboard to draw on. On a skill scale of 10, I was a -2 but now I'm a 7 thanks to this very small book. Your students will think you're really an artist.
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