Elena Shvidko

How much do your students know about the local area and community? Elena Shvidko shows how community resources can be used as an instructional tool for creating writing projects and activities.

Elena Shvidko describes a number of activities that make use of shopping receipts to practise reading, writing, and speaking skills, as well as some grammar concepts.

When I first saw this book, my immediate reaction was: ‘I wish I had had it when I was learning English myself!’ The textbooks that we had in my English classes all used artificially generated dialogues, which hardly resembled real-life talk, not only in terms of grammatical structures and vocabulary, but also in terms of pronunciation...