ABSTRACT

This book is packed with practical advice drawn from the author's extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. It is accessible and very readable, and may be dipped into for innovative lesson ideas or read from cover to cover as a short, enjoyable course which combines exciting teaching principles in successful practical experience.

In-depth chapters focus on:

  • starting with Shakespeare
  • learning to plan
  • living with objectives
  • managing behaviour
  • small texts and big texts
  • drama.

Trainee teachers will find support in this cheerful little book and practising English teachers can use it as a self-help guide for improving their skills. Trevor Wright addresses many of the anxieties that English teachers face, offering focused and realistic solutions.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Shakespeare: first contact

chapter 2|15 pages

Planning: the third element

chapter 3|12 pages

Learning to love objectives

chapter 4|19 pages

Poetry, small texts and pupil responses

chapter 5|19 pages

Managing learning, managing classrooms

chapter 6|10 pages

Evaluation

chapter 7|19 pages

The Framework: key issues

chapter 8|20 pages

Working with big texts

chapter 9|29 pages

Drama

chapter 10|10 pages

Differentiation