The Magazine for English Professionals - English Teachers ...

Volume 25 - No. 1
Winter 2007
Publisher:
ETAS, English Teachers Association, Switzerland
Rue de l’Hôpital 32, CH-1400 Yverdon
Publications Chair:
Steve Lander, Basel
Editorial Board:
Frances Burkhalter, Eclépens
Nicola Martignoni, Quartino
John Raggett, Cornaux
Diane Theobald, Biel-Bienne
Lee Wennerberg, Berg
Graphic Design:
Angela Munson Pfenninger, Oberdürnten
e-mail: layout@e-tas.ch
Printer:
KDMZ, Zürich
ISSN: 1660-6507
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Circulation: 1500
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Index of Advertisers Page
Bergli Bookshop 8
Bergli Bookshop 8
Bider & Tanner 39
University of Cambridge ESOL 37
Cambridge University Press 21
Castle’s English Institute 34
Express Publishing 35
Harcourt Education 5
Hull’s School 11
Langenscheidt 6
Macmillan 45
Oxford University Press 22
PC Designs 40
Pearson Longman 12 & 55
Summertown Publishing 2
TLC Baden 56
Contents
NEWS
ETAS Organisation 4
Editorial 5
President’s Report 7
SIG Day 2007: Workshop Reviews 16 - 33
Call for Papers: ETAS SIG Day 2008 34
Matopo Primary School, Zimbabwe: Teacher-to-Teacher Project 2007 36
SPECIAL Supplement: Explorations in ELT
Editorial 8
Revising Vocabulary Task 8
Vocab Taboo 9
Pairwork; in Small Groups? 9
Exploiting Your Students’ Experiences 10
Creating a Picture Book for Adult Students 10
Earning a Crust 13
Bringing Your Books To Life 13
Adapting Speaking Activities for Assessment Purposes 14
MEMBER MIX
10 Ideas for Using Comic Strips and Cartoons in Language Teaching 38
Institutional Constraints and Resources - Implications for Teaching and the
Convergence between Talk Inside and Outside the Classroom 38
Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs: some Exercises to Use Straight Out of
the Box 41
What’s a Life Worth? 42
Indian English 43
The Place of a ‘Résumé’ in English for Occupational Purposes (EOP)
A Practitioner’s Perspective 44
REGIONS REVIEWS
News and Events 46 - 47
A Look at Books 48 - 50
Books to Review 50 - 51
SERVICES
Library Updates 52
Library Order and Check-out Form 53
Membership Administration 54
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