Language Activities for Teenagers is a useful text book for teachers that bridges the gap between young learners and adults. There is a lot of helpful information and fun activities for teachers who are running English classes for teenagers.

The book starts of with a detailed chapter about how to maintain discipline and control in the classroom. This is good advice, particularly for teachers who haven’t experienced classes of young teenagers before! Following that are eight chapters of language based games and activities. They are ordered in terms of the particular skills you want to teach, as well as chapters on ice breakers, literature and debating activities.

I recommend this book if you are about to do a stint at a summer school with teenagers. The students will enjoy the fun activities and you will be glad of the additional resource in addition to the often dry texts that many summer schools provide.

Teach Me English Teaching Guide: Learning Language Through Songs and Stories  is a fun and engaging exercise book for teaching English to children.

The text covers basic language components children need to learn and packages this process in a really creative way. The songs used are well know and suitable for young learners all over the world. There are over 20 different songs in the book and they are put together with some nice illustrations, which help the students with understanding. It’s a great way to introduce some basic vocabulary and practice sentence structure. The exercises can be used for large classes too.

Teach EFL is a helpful book for teachers embarking on a TEFL course or a career in teaching English as a foreign language.

The book takes you through all the areas you need to get to grips with in order to become a competent EFL teacher. There are plenty of overviews to help new teachers quickly get to grips with the key principals. Also there are many teaching tips to build confidence in new teachers. Additionally Teach EFL is linked up with resources online to give teachers a broader background to teaching English as a foreign language.

Teaching Languages to Young Learners is a thought provoking text offering useful advice to those teaching English to children.

This book is written in an academic style and will be most useful to teachers who put value on their professional development. The book gives teachers a broad theoretical basis with which they can plan their young learners’ classes. The text covers ways in which to develop a child’s skills in English, as well as ways to assess and monitor their progress.

Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources  is a great book for teachers short on time and with little or no resources.

There are over 70 activities in the text. The majority are fun word games that focus on improving grammar and vocabulary. The most they require is that the students have a paper and pen, but many activities require no resources at all, not even photocopying! The exercises can be tailored to all levels but are generally more appropriate for lower levels. It’s a great book if you’re going to teach in Asia with large classes and minimum resources.