Introduction

The Real Life Teachers Resources are designed to make your day-to-day teaching easier and even more effective. In this resource pack you will find:

Photocopiable activities and worksheets. These give students more practice and include activities for: grammar and vocabulary functional language listening the DVD. Practical ideas and workshops to help you become more confident and creative with different aspects of your teaching.

In this introduction you will read about each element of the Real Life Teachers Resources in turn. You will be able to find out what they are how to use them how they can benefit you and your students in your lessons.

1 Photocopiable activities and worksheets

All the photocopiable activities and worksheets are accompanied by detailed teachers notes. They tell you the aim of each activity and give instructions on how you can use it in class. Sometimes the students work in pairs, sometimes in groups, sometimes on their own. There are full answer keys for the activities when appropriate. You can use the resources at any time in the lesson; at the beginning to review language from a previous lesson; in the middle to give a change of focus; at the end as consolidation.

1.1 Photocopiable Resources

There are 36 pages of photocopiable resources to accompany each level of Real Life. This is one photocopiable resource for each two-page spread of every unit. These photocopiable resources give students more practice with the key language in the spread: grammar, vocabulary and/or skills. ! Remember: Students need to have studied the language in the Students Book and practised it in class before they do the photocopiable activity.

1.2 Can You Do It In English?

The Can You Do It In English? photocopiables give students extra practice with the language in the Can You Do It In English? sections of Real Life. This means they are all speaking activities, with the focus on students using functional language in practical contexts. The teachers notes tell you which Students Book activity each photocopiable relates to.

1.3 DVD Worksheets

These photocopiable worksheets are for you to use with students when they watch the Real Time DVDs. There are short activities for them to do while they watch and after they watch. These activities help you make the most of the DVDs and help students understand what they are watching, from the point of view of both language and culture.

1.4 Extra Listening Activities

The CD material in Real Life is very varied and is a rich resource of dialogue and natural language in context. These photocopiable Extra Listening Activities supplement the listening activities in the Students Book and will give you ideas on how you can create your own extra audio activities, too. ! Remember: Use the activities after students have completed the listening activities in the Students Book for the same tapescript.

2 Practical ideas and workshops

The Teachers Resources in this section are designed to give you ideas to help you with your teaching. They will help you extend your skills and competence as a teacher, which of course helps the students in their learning, too.

2.1 Workshops
The Workshops are short, practical articles on different aspects of teaching for you to read, for example on Classroom Management, Listening, Learner Training. You will find the workshops are full of ideas and practical tips. They are not designed to be read all at once. Its a much better idea to read one workshop at a time and try out some of the ideas in your classes before reading another one. And you dont need to read them in the order they are presented in the Teachers Resources. Choose the topics that interest you the most and the ones that you think will be the most helpful in your teaching. Why not get together with other teachers? You can all read one of the workshops and then talk about it as a group. Sharing ideas and experiences with other teachers is one of the most valuable and enjoyable ways of learning.

2.2 Fillers
Fillers are exactly that short activities which fill gaps in lessons. However carefully we plan, we can never predict exactly how long activities will take or how students will respond to them. In this section of the Teachers Resources there are ideas for interesting and varied activities you can do to fill those gaps, whether they come at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a lesson.

2.3 Board Plans

The board is an important resource for presenting and clarifying aspects of language to students. The Teachers Resources include Board Plans for you to use for many of the Grammar2know sections in Real Life. When there is a Board Plan for a Grammar2know it is referenced in the Teachers Notes for the lesson. You can either transfer the Board Plan onto your computer and use it on the Interactive Whiteboard or copy the Board Plan into your lesson plan and draw it on the board before or during the lesson. Board Plans are particularly effective because they give students a visual representation of aspects of grammar. This is much better than giving them an explanation. ! Remember: Give students time to copy each of the Board Plans into their notebooks.