With this new publication of MODULE 1 READER and WORKBOOK COMBINED - AGES 13 and OLDER, we are offering the complete student package for all of Module 1: (The Student Reader and Workbook for Parts 1 and 2 of Module 1). This enables purchasers to make a 22% savings over buying these books separately. The Teacher's Guides are sold separately because only one is needed for each class. The Teacher's Guides contain the tests, the answers to the Workbook questions, and many activities that are essential to learning these lessons. This book contains 193 pages. There are 40 Reader lessons and 40 Workbook lessons in all. Each of these can take about 90 minutes, but this varies greatly according to local conditions for each class. At Learning English With Laughter we believe that students learn best when they are enjoying their lessons. There are many activities that are done in small groups, so that the students can practice and laugh together, because everyone learning a language needs lots of support. Grammar is introduced incrementally, and students have the opportunity to practice each new concept before moving on to the next. The Teacher's Guide has a test following each forth lesson, and a mid term test after lesson 20. The following Grammar concepts are introduced in this Student Reader. They are then integrated and reinforced through large and small group oral activities, role-plays and written exercises in the Workbooks.- English names - Vocabulary - Subject pronouns - Possessive adjectives - Negative sentences with "to be" - Contractions of "to be" - Forming the negative of "to do" - Listening, understanding and oral reading - Informal introductions - Numbers 1 to 10 - Formal introductions - Negative contractions - Possessives -Reference of countries and nationalities - Preposition "in" - Greetings -Numbers to 100 - Spelling of singular and plural nouns - Contractions of auxiliary verbs with "not" - Using "some" and "any" - Collecting and recording information - Subject, object and impersonal pronouns - Using "a", "an" and "the" - Prepositions - Greetings - Numbers to 100 - English vocabulary - Listening and reading paragraphs - Neighborhood map - Small group questioning, answering, checking answers - Use of "any" - Days of the week - Using pictures for conversation - Role-plays - Past tense - Regular past tense verbs - Listening to "ed" endings - Identifying past tense verbs - Questions using "to do" - Irregular past tense verbs - Negative answers - Past tense using "to be" - Phrases expressing time in the past - Present progressive tense - spelling - Past progressive tense - Months of the year - Time phrases using "at" and "in" - Simple future tense - Clock times - future tense using "going to" - Using "by" and "on" to express modes of travel. These textbooks are being used in more than 80 countries.
About the Author: Daisy Stocker B.Ed., M.Ed. taught in the British and Canadian school systems in different capacities over many years. George Stocker D.D.S. practiced Dentistry and taught in hospitals, colleges and universities. In 1990 they left their Canadian careers and traveled to Czechoslovakia to teach and assist in establishing the first private language school in the country. During the following years the Stockers developed this series of textbooks. Frequent surveys were given to the students to assess the many components of their lessons. The results of the surveys were discussed with the students and only the most helpful content was retained. This grassroots feedback obtained from our students has been positively confirmed by students and teachers in more than 70 countries around the world. Since leaving the Czech Republic the Stockers have taught in Budapest, Hong Kong and Northern India. They make their home in Victoria, Canada.