The Standby Book: Activities for the Language Classroom

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Seth Lindstromberg (Editor)

The Standby Book is an anthology of more than 120 language learning activities contributed by 33 teachers. It includes complete lesson suggestions; activities which can be used to build complete lessons; suggestions for variations and extensions of the activities; example texts and photocopiable handouts. There are activities for conversation practice; vocabulary learning; reading; writing; fluency practice; warming up and changing pace; team building; confidence building; revision and for fun. The Standby Book has been compiled as a support for teachers who teach young adults and adults on General English courses, groups of business and professional people, students of English for Academic Purposes, Literature or those following exam preparation courses.

262 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1997

About the author

Seth Lindstromberg teaches at Hilderstone College, where he runs language and methodology courses for teachers of English as a foreign language. He also specialises in the teaching of CLIL.

Reviews

[Vivian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not quite useful as I expected. Those activities the book introduced don't have the generalizability, you only can apply them in a specific level and specific language (in this case is English) course, which I found very limited.