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Activity 2: Getting around by tube
Activity 3: Buying a tube ticket
Role-play 2: Diamonds in the Briefcase
Role-play 9: Anniversary dinner
A.2 Original Practical Material
A.5 Useful books and sources for ideas
… for the First Edition (1979)
I should like to acknowledge my special indebtedness to Hugh L’Estrange who read this book and made lots of useful suggestions (and who also helped out with the typing when one finger proved too slow!).
I should also like to thank Frances Newman and John Johnson of Kingsway-Princeton College of Further Education, London for their excellent ideas (see particularly page 87 and page 80) and also Dr David Thomas of the University of Bristol, Department of Drama.
… for the Second and Third Editions (2011, 2013)
Many thanks to Bob Janes for his tremendous support and encouragement, and for all his hard work in putting the book together and giving it a more modern and attractive look.
Also to Andy Cowle for his enthusiasm and committment to making this series available to teachers again years later, and to HarperCollins for taking it under their wing.
Jane Revell is an award-winning ELT author who has worked globally in ELT as an educator, manager and trainer since the early 70s. She is widely known in many countries and is greatly respected for her continued contributions and inspiring workshops. Jane is also a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP, and a Pilates instructor.
Preface to the Second Edition (2011)
Teaching Techniques for Communicative English was the very first book I ever wrote and it’s now just over thirty years old. (Unlike me.)
We decided to publish a new edition because the ideas in the book are still valid today and because it contains a lot of useful advice for teachers and a fair amount of food for thought.
When it was first published in 1979 – as the first in a new series of teachers’ books for Macmillan – it was quite radical. The 1970s was an era of great change in English Language Teaching, of attempts to put into practice many new theories about language being proposed by linguists at that time. Today we are very familiar with concepts such as functions, notions, social context, appropriateness and so on but in those days they were fairly new ways of thinking about language. But while the book is no longer ground-breaking, many of the issues it talks about still