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NEW FREE BOOK! You Are The Course Book 2 – In Practice (480 pages)

NEW from i to i – 20 Free Classroom Activities!

Whether it’s your first day in the classroom or your fiftieth – every ESL teacher is in need of a little helping hand every now and then.
Here are 20 free classroom activities from i-to-i which include classroom tips and accompanying handouts which you can photocopy for your lessons!
Get yours here!

Activities book

Download All 15 FREE English Banana.com Resource Books – in one download!

December 22, 2012 Leave a comment

It’s December 2012, and to celebrate our 10th birthday online, English Banana.com are giving you the opportunity – for a limited time only – to download all 15 of our free resource books – in one .pdf file! This is the first time that all of our books – written and published between 2003 and 2012 – have been collected together in one place.

Click here to download all 15 English Banana.com resource books in 1 .pdf file (49.6 MB)

It is, admittedly, a massive .pdf file (of 49.6 MB), but it could be handy to have all these resources together at the same time. You could put it on a pen drive and have it with you in your bag ready for when you need to learn or teach English. The file contains interactive bookmarks (see picture below) so that you can find each resource book quickly.

All of the material is covered by our free copying licence and free licence to run courses, which means that anyone may freely print, copy, adapt, distribute, sell, and give away this material, without further written permission. Please visit http://www.englishbanana.com for full details.

We hope that you will enjoy this very special download. Please don’t forget that there is still lots more free material available on our website which isn’t in any of these books!

If you have any comments or questions, we’d love to hear from you. Please click here to contact us.

The .pdf file includes all of the following, from our first collection in 2003 – Big Grammar Book – to our latest material for learning connected speech – Stress, Reduce, Merge – which was published in September 2012:

1. Big Grammar Book – mixed worksheets

2. Big Activity Book – mixed worksheets

3. Big Resource Book – mixed worksheets

4. Check It Again! (Book One) – error correction practice

5. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 – complete spoken English course

6. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 2 – complete spoken English course

7. Talk a Lot Elementary Handbook – how to teach Talk a Lot courses

8. Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 – complete spoken English course

9. The Best of English Banana.com (2003-2009) – compilation of favourite worksheets

10. Talk a Lot Foundation Course – complete pronunciation course

11. Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 – complete spoken English course

12. Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 2 – unfinished spoken English course

13. You Are The Course Book – teacher training manual

14. Clear Alphabet Dictionary – pronunciation dictionary

15. Stress, Reduce, Merge – pronunciation practice

My Ebook Publishing House publishes brand new ebook editions of English Banana.com books!

November 5, 2012 Leave a comment

ebook versions of English Banana.com books are now available!

You can now buy brand new ebook editions of various English Banana.com books, including Big Grammar Book, Big Resource Book, and Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1. The collection of ebooks, which has just been published by My Ebook Publishing House, are especially handy if you would like to access the material on tablet computers, mobile devices, and ebook readers such as Kindle. Prices are very reasonable, ranging from $0.99 to $1.99. You can download a short sample of each book to find out whether it’s suitable for you before you buy.

Find out full details by clicking the link below!

Buy cheap ebook editions of English Banana.com books

[This project has been made possible through the provision of English Banana.com's Free Copying Licence. Find out more here.]

FREE DOWNLOAD! Clear Alphabet Dictionary – Read and Write English as it Sounds!

August 28, 2012 Leave a comment

Listen to my Recent Interview with Nate Hill from Tweet Speak English!

It was great to have a chat about teaching with Nate Hill of Tweet Speak English recently. You can download the full interview as a FREE MP3 here:

http://tweetspeakenglish.com/how-to-improve-spoken-english/english-speaking-tips-not-in-coursebooks/

 

New Free Teaching Manual! “You Are The Course Book”

Big Grammar Book is the Most Recommended Resource at Guardian Teacher Network!

December 28, 2011 Leave a comment

We’re delighted to announce that our free printable Big Grammar Book is now the most recommended teaching resource at the Guardian Teacher Network – out of 5,500+ free resources!

It is clear that the Big Grammar Book has wide appeal too, because it is the number one recommended resource in 5 out of 6 of the age categories:

You can download YOUR free copy of the Big Grammar Book here: Big Grammar Book – Free Download.

Visit the Guardian Teacher Network here: Guardian Teacher Network.

English Banana Trust Presentation – Review (November 2011)

December 15, 2011 Leave a comment

More than 1.6 Million English Banana.com Free English Books Downloaded since 2008!

November 29, 2011 Leave a comment

We recently had a count up and we’re excited to announce that (since April 2008) more than 1.6 million people have downloaded English Banana.com free English printable books!

English Banana.com FREE English Books...

The actual total to date is 1,615,276 , which averages out at 1,224 free downloads every day over the past 3.5 years!

This stat comes from the number of books downloaded from our pages on CNET and Scribd. Check them out and maybe you will find something useful for either teaching or learning English! This figure doesn’t include downloads from other websites where the books are hosted as well, e.g. Google Books, Guardian Teacher Network, Slideshare, and other file-sharing sites – so the total number of English Banana.com books downloaded over the past few years will be actually much higher!

The last time we did the count (about this time last year) the total figure was just over 820,000 books downloaded, which means that the number of people who have been able to benefit from our free material has more than doubled  in one year! This is really exciting for us here at English Banana.com!

The most popular free English Banana.com books – by a large margin – are Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1, and Big Grammar Book. We are absolutely thrilled to see that the material is being so widely distributed on the internet and used in many different teaching situations around the world. We love getting feedback every day from teachers and students who are benefiting from using the material. You can see some of the places where they are being used on this Google Map, and find out how people are using our free licences, which make the free material really FREE.

If you are a teacher or student who enjoys working with English Banana.com material, why not email us a picture of yourself using it in the classroom. We’d love to see it!

New Material! Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 2 > Unit 1 > Lesson 1

November 4, 2011 Leave a comment

Buy Hard Copies of English Banana.com Workbooks Here!

October 31, 2011 Leave a comment

Big Grammar Book and Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 – Hard Copies!

Now you can buy hard copies of two of our most popular books from English Banana Trust. Both books are sturdy wiro-bound volumes with laminated covers, which will prove really handy when you are photocopying them all day! Both books cost £22 each, with all of the proceeds going towards the work of English Banana Trust, which is a charity set up to support the English Banana.com website.

Why not order your copy today from the Trust? Here are their contact details:

English Banana Trust, P.O. Box 35, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 9AB   Tel. 01263 715842

Email: ebtrust@englishbanana.com

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