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    Presentation, Practice and Production written with capital Ps refer to specific stages of a lesson, not general concepts.
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    English refers to whatever is normal in most English speaking countries not just England. There are so many countries where English is an official language that I have chosen to keep it simple in this way.
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    Web addresses appear in the book in monofont type, so they stand out.
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    Sidebars – boxed text on a grey background – are chunks of material which you might find useful as background knowledge, or as enhance-ments to the techniques you read about in the main text. Fun and helpful, but not essential reading: skip them if you want.
    Foolish Assumptions
    I wrote this book with the intention of helping people who want to teach English for the first time, or who are inexperienced at the job and need some tips to improve their teaching.
    I assume these things about you:
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    You are a native speaker or proficient in speaking English.
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    You are not a fully qualified TEFL teacher although you may have an initial qualification.

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    You want to do a responsible job in the classroom and give students value for money.
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    You are more interested in the mechanics of teaching than the methodology behind language learning.
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    You are not enrolled on a full TEFL course leading to a diploma or MA.
    Please note that this book is not for you if you just want to improve your own English. The focus is on how to explain language points to students not simply to you, the reader.
    How This Book Is Organised
    This book is organised into six main parts, and two Appendixes. The parts cover the TEFL industry, putting together lessons and their content, and then to the courses as a whole.
    Part I: Getting Started In TEFL
    In this first section of the book I cover the information you need to know about the kind of people who go into TEFL and what the job can do for them.
    I help you to decide whether to only teach for a couple of summers or as a career, by explaining what the job entails. I tell you what the students expect from you too. You find out about the qualifications and training you need, if any, as there are different kinds of courses you can enrol on. As well as this, I include the points you need to keep in mind if you are moving abroad to teach. This is an introduction to the industry as a whole.
    Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together
    For most people who are new to teaching or have never done it before, the task of finding a point to teach and then working out how to package the information into an effective lesson is rather overwhelming. In these chapters I break the lesson down into different stages, known as Presentation, Practice and Production so that there is a clear structure for learning. There is also advice on how long the stages should last and who should be doing the talking. I include lots of examples and suggestions for classroom activities, whether you use a course book or design your own materials. You find out when and how to correct the students’ errors and keep them in check during the lesson through good classroom management.
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    Part III: How to Teach Skills Classes
    In language courses there are four main skills which need to be included to make students truly proficient. These are listening, speaking, reading and writing. In this part of the book I take a look at each skill in isolation, showing you how to put a lesson together which is dedicated to one skill. These lessons have a slightly different structure from grammar and vocabulary ones. There is also a chapter on pronunciation which is so vital to good communication that there are phonetic symbols and particular techniques for assisting students to speak clearly.

Part IV: The Grammar You Need
    to Know – and How to Teach It
    Grammar for foreign students is the topic of this section. It is the area which so many native