Az Idegen Nyelvi Részleg könyvajánlója 2009. február

Jane Arnold, Herbert Puchta, Mario Rinvoucre:Imagine that! : Mental imagery in the EFL classroom
IMAGINE THAT! explores ways to motivate your students by opening the mind's eye, ear and heart. After an introduction to the importance of mental imagery for language learning, many practical suggestions and clear guidelines are given for beginning to use imagery in the classroom. Then five sections - Visualisation Training, Language in Mind, Stories Stories Tell, Images of Time and Space, and Spinning Inward - provide a wealth of ideas for English language teaching. Using these activities, both students and teachers may well find the classroom a more creative and stimulating place to be.
With the book comes a CD Rom with music, artwork, photos, worksheets to be photocopied and taped visualisation script.
The activities can be adapted and used for all levels of students, from elementary to advanced
Christine Frank, Mario Rinvolucri: Creative Writing: Activities to help students produce meaningful texts.

Christine Frank, Mario Rinvolucry: Creative writing
The book contains more than 80 ready-to-teach lessons for beginner- to advanced-level students. It is divided into sections that include "Getting Going", "Writing from Your Partner's Content", "Group Writing", "Writing in Role" and "Intrapersonal Writing". Creative Writing is all about encouraging students to express themselves rather than looking at the nuts and bolts of how to write. The book is full of ideas designed to inspire the students and give them a reason to write.
Plus there's a wide range of lesson plans that will be of value to the teacher.

Philip Roth: Our Gang
Our Gang is a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.

"Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm." — Newsweek

Rund um Bildergeschichten und Comics: Kopiervorlagen für den Deutschunterricht.
Anhand von handlungs- und produktionsorientierten Kopiervorlagen mit vielen motivierenden Materialien lernen die Schüler/innen Bildergeschichten zu verstehen, Erzähltechniken anzuwenden und inhaltliche Zusammenhänge sprachlich richtig und anschaulich darzustellen. Mit vielfältigen Anregungen, Bildergeschichten und Comics!

Thomas Klotz: Das grosse Übungsbuch zur Rechtschreibung: Informationen Spiele Übungen Lernzirkel
Das große Übungsbuch zur Rechtschreibung hilft Lehrern, Eltern, und Scüler die Rechtschreibreform nicht zum Horrortrip werden lassen. Das vielfältige Material kann sowohl für (bereits fertig ausgearbeitete) Lernzirkel genutzt als auch unabhängig davon für spielerisches Üben in der Gruppe, zu zweit oder allein eingesetzt werden. Natürlich fehlen auch die entsprechenden Vorlagen nicht. Und zur schnellen Orientierung gibt es für jeden Bereich noch ein eingängiges Merkblatt, das auch zum Poster werden kann!