INNOVATIONS is a new 5-level general English course that is built upon the kinds of natural language that people use in everyday life. It is the only series that helps learner take part in everyday conversations.
Online Teacher Training available!

Coursebooks and Workbooks are available under the links for Instructors for each title.

• Presents grammar in natural, everyday contexts, with practice through exercises and activities.
• Puts vocabulary, fixed expressions and common idiomatic language at the heart of the syllabus.
• Has specially written listening and reading passages to ensure learners revisit key grammar, vocabulary, and conversations.
• Includes stimulating topics that provide opportunities for learners to talk about their own experiences and opinions.
• Includes a practical pronunciation syllabus designed to improve learners' oral fluency, which includes sound-chunking.
• Has learner-training sections with practical suggestions and advice on language learning.
• Teacher's Resource Books provide photocopiable activities for additional controlled practice or fluency work.
• The ExamView Pro Assessment CD-ROM allows teachers to produce and print customized placement, mid-term or final exam materials quickly and easily.
• Additional resources are available at http://elt.thomson.com/innovations.

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In this web page, you will find hundreds of novels and narratives available for you to read, without paying a pound!!!!. We recommend you the  following novels:
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- A narrative on the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The fall of the house of Usher
- The Scarlett Letter
- Wuthering Heights

http://www.americanliterature.com/

Our experience as Master students....

Lara: As for my experience at the master, I have to say that it is very positive for different reasons. On the one hand, we focus on fields related to psychology, and sociology which are linked at the same time to the educational eviroments, and on the other hand, there are some subjects where we make a deep study about how to teach, in our case the english language. As a result, I feel that at the end of the course all of us will end up with a wide knowledge about the way we, as future teachers,  have to manage our classes and how we have to deliver our lessons in the best possible way. The only drawback I find is that there are lots of hours devoted to areas that do not need a deep study as future teachers.

Ana: My experience as a master student has been positive for many reasons. I think that it is a good experience because we are learning lots of interesting things as working in groups, respecting other's opinions, how to introduce innovation in our classes...
We are also learning to see things that we don't see as students. We are learning to think as if we were teachers, we are getting in touch with legal documents, and getting aware of our rights and obligations as teachers. I think that all this will be very useful in our future job.
There are some aspects that I don't like as there are lots of hours of class and sometimes we are overloaded with work but my general opinion of the master is positive.

Sandra: I consider that this Master provides you with some guidelines on how to teach in secondary education. Although, I realized this Master should include more practical application. This application should help you to face the real world of education. In addition, I consider that there are so many teaching hours that most of them are not useful. I thought I was going to learn more about how to teach or, even  how to teach in the real world.

Do you know who is Sapphire? she wrote a novel called Push, and incredible and shocking story about a black girl who suffers discrimination not only by white people, but also into the same community of neggroes. Although is not a real story, it reflects the situation of many black people in the United States. This novel touches issues such as discrimination, the importance of literacy, sexual abuse and many other aspects that she wanted to denounce.

In this website you can find a new way to study and enjoy english litearure from another perspective. It is also useful if you are interested in finding or purchasing books on-line
http://www.literature-study-online.com/