This book is for teachers who are learning to teach English either on an initial teacher training course, or beginning their teaching career.
It is a little different from other teacher training manuals in two ways.
It is written for all beginning teachers of ELT but bears in mind the needs of many of the world’s teachers who do not have easy access to equipment such as photocopiers, cassette recorders, DVD players, computers, libraries of resource books — or who may not even have a course book. The techniques and activities in the lesson plans in this book do not assume that you have this equipment in your school or classroom. Instead, the focus is on classroom techniques and activities that use home-produced materials and resources — or even no materials at all. This does not mean that if you work in a hi-tech school this book is not for you, it is simply that we firmly believe that lotech is not second best. Many simple techniques and home-produced materials can bring colour, life, warmth, and laughter into the classroom in a way that books and equipment cannot: all teachers can benefit from using them!
