Activities Using Resources - OUP

According to OUP, this book has thirty units that show teachers how they can use resources that are typically available. Included are teaching ideas for flashcards, posters, cards, realia, the classroom, the learners, and the teachers themselves in a way that promotes language learning in a motivating and effective way. It's made for teachers, teacher trainees (including CELTA and Trinity Cert TESOL), and teacher trainers. It has ideas for introducing and practising both grammatical and lexical items, suggestions for adaptation and variation and practical ideas for making, storing, and collecting resources. 

Ellen Pilon, a freelance ESL teacher, defines the book very well in her publication at TESL Canada Journal - Mar 22, 2007: "Experienced teachers will find most of these activities familiar or obvious; moreover, teachers of EAP and advanced-level adults will find few useful new ideas. However, new teachers, anxious teachers, teachers trying to avoid the label boring, and teachers lacking refined organizational skills will all find the book indispensable. Thirty usable, creative, easy-to-follow ideas under one cover is a tempting purchase. How often have you half remembered a good idea and then were unable to find it? How often do you decide at the last minute that you need a tried-and-true activity to reinforce language learned the day before? You will find something valuable in this book, which is thin and colorful, a little longer and wider than others of its ilk, and easily locatable in your bag of tricks." I feel the same!