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Interesting matters for language teachers
by Anthony Bamber

Hello fellow language teachers. This section of the web site is given over to teaching ideas and methods. They have arisen either from the need to get quick results in the 3 week children’s summer courses or as helpful material for teacher training courses.

Anthony Bamber's “Teacher's Kaleidoscope” Published as manual for teacher training courses

There are 33 categories of teaching procedure; each category has a special colour symbol. (see photo) All the book’s pages are cut into 5 strips so that 5 mini pages face 5 others. Thus there is the possibility of millions of possible page combinations, and these chance combinations of ideas on the different mini pages leads to the generation of still further ideas.

Teacher Training

Views on teaching languages and description of our grammar book

  1. My general views on language teaching followed by a description of the Grammar book that I have published and which addresses the typical gaps in most text books

  2. A sample grammar page from the book

  3. A sample of the short plays that illustrate the grammar

  4. See the web section “Summer courses at Middlesmoor” to see other ideas on teaching

Book - CD ROM Project

  1. A description of a projected book + CD rom which aims to furnish adult material for language tasks and which at the same time will aid the students gain an understanding of what one could call the problems of existence. This material is organised in 40 categories which I call “The human life chart”
  2. It is a system of categories with which to file articles from newspapers as source material for language tasks and as a stimulus to thinking and discussion
  3. A more detailed view of “The human life chart” that explains each category under 4 columns:
    social
    political
    history
    the personal science and technology

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