Books written by our trainers

Below you will find some of the books written by teacher trainers at IH Barcelona.

You will also find numerous articles by IH Barcelona staff in publications such as EL Gazette, ELT Journal, ET Professional, IATEFL Issues, IATEFL Special Interest Group newsletters, Modern English Teacher and The Teacher Trainer.

3Sixty5

Vicki Anderson and Robert Campbell

3Sixty5 is a resource book that provides teachers with at least one teaching idea for each day of the year.

It contains teaching ideas relating to the most popular dates in the calendar year - such as Saint Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Hallowe'en and Christmas - as well as other ideas relating to events that occurred on each day.

3Sixty5 is aimed at classes from intermediate upwards and is suitable for students aged 13 and upwards, including adult classes.

Destrezas Integradas

David Clark and Nuria Sánchez

Destrezas Integradas is a resource book for Spanish teachers which takes - as its Spanish title indicates - an integrated skills approach to the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

It contains 20 units on a wide variety of topics (the cinema, advertising, adventure sports, alternative medicine, to give some examples), which can be worked through systematically or dipped into and used in any order.

Each unit begins with a theme-setting introduction, including vocabulary work, and goes on to provide a variety of stimulating texts and related tasks with which to develop the four skills.

Suitable for use at a variety of levels (Intermediate to Advanced), Destrezas Integradas contains a lot that will interest teachers and learners preparing to take the DELE Nivel Básico examination.

ISBN 84-348-4638-1 Ediciones SM 2001

Fountain

Roger Hunt with Jim Lawley, Helen O'Neill and Tom Bradbury

Fountain is a four-level series, comprising course and activity books plus a full range of cassettes and other material, taking 11 to 15 year-olds from beginner to upper-intermediate levels.

Its approach is a learning-by-doing one, with the students working from comprehensible input to perform tasks and do mini-projects, with controlled language emerging from everyday school topics designed to motivate the learner. Tasks include such things as drawing and describing people, telling jokes and writing quizzes, as well as cross-curricular subjects such as history, with these being looked at in a light-hearted, fun fashion.

Fountain has an international flavour to it, deliberately avoiding too heavy a focus on Britain and the British.

ISBN 0-17-556481-7 (Student's Book, Beginners) Longman

About Language

Scott Thornbury

Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language - they also need to know how the language works. About Language asks: 'What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' This book develops teachers' awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system.

The book consists of 28 units, each containing around ten tasks, plus a diagnostic introductory unit. The units start at phoneme level and progress through words, phrases and sentences on to complete texts. The language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources.

About Language can be used by teachers in both pre-service and in-service settings. There is a full key and commentary, so that the book can be used both on training courses and for self-study.

ISBN 0-521-56198-1 - Cambridge University Press 1997

How to Teach Grammar

Scott Thornbury

Beginning with a look at what grammar is, and why we should teach it, How to Teach Grammar then goes on to look at some of the different ways in which we can do so.

Subsequent chapters deal with teaching grammar from rules, from examples and from texts, with later chapters in the book discussing how to deal with errors and how to integrate and also test grammar.

Richly illustrated with examples and sample lessons, How to Teach Grammar is designed for teachers at the beginning of their careers but also contains much that will interest even the most experienced teacher.

How to Teach Grammar won the 1999 Ben Warren Prize.

ISBN 0-582-33932-4, Longman 1999

How to Teach Vocabulary

Scott Thornbury

Written for all teachers of English who wish to know more about this vital subject, and to develop their classroom skills for teaching it, How to Teach Vocabulary begins with an examination of what a word is and then looks at how we acquire, store and retrieve words.

It goes on to look at how we can present vocabulary and put it into action in the classroom, as well as containing a chapter on techniques for training people to become good vocabulary learners.

Covering a wide range of other topics such as dictionaries and corpora, teaching lexical chunks and testing vocabulary, the book also contains numerous practical classroom ideas.

ISBN 0-582-42966-8, Longman 2002

Uncovering Grammar

Scott Thornbury

Uncovering Grammar challenges the traditional view of grammar as a "thing" to be learned, suggesting that it is more like a "process" that emerges. It re-examines traditional approaches to teaching grammar and shows how to create the right conditions for students to "uncover" grammar.

Its first part contains 80 thought-provoking pages that lead the reader to look at grammar from a refreshing variety of angles - including both how we actually use grammar as well as how we teach it in the classroom.

Part 2 then contains a series of photocopiable worksheets designed to help make the teaching and learning of grammar a process rather than a product.

ISBN 0-333-95282-0, Macmillan Heinemann 2001