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English Banana.com Teachers Map has been Updated!
What do Peru, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico, Kashmir, and Hartlepool have in common? They are all places where English teachers are busily working on projects using English Banana.com material, having first applied for a free certificate of authorisation.
On the map below each pin represents a place where such a project is taking place:
English Banana.com Teachers Map
You can find out more about each one on our amazing interactive map! Please click below to go there now:
And click here to find out more about our free licences:
http://englishbanana.com/copying-licence.html
Teaching English without a Course Book – Week 4
Teaching English without a Course Book – Week 2
Get a free copy of a new paid iPhone/iPad app that uses English Banana material!
Learn English with Exercises is the latest English language learning app from Creative Apps Lab. The app is packed with great exercises for practising English skills, including grammar, reading, vocabulary building, and communication skills. Better still, the app features many exercises from English Banana.com books, like Big Grammar Book!
The app costs $ 0.99 and can be downloaded from Apple App Store in any country worldwide. However, we have got hold of twenty free copies for readers of this blog! If you would like a special download code, please contact us and tell us why you enjoy learning with English Banana.com!
You can find out more about Learn English with Exercises app here:
You can order the app on iTunes here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-english-with-exercises/id631926317
There is also a free starter version of the app, which you can get here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-english-exercises-free/id631931046
Learn English with Exercises – new app
This fantastic new app was produced via our Free Copying Licence, which allows anybody to use English Banana.com material for their projects – including commercial projects like this one – absolutely free of charge. To read our Free Copying Licence, please click below. Maybe you could make use of it…?!
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!
FREE English Vocabulary and Pronunciation Workout! (Video of online lesson)
This is a recording of a free class I taught on WizIQ.com on 28.02.13: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1140564-free-english-vocabulary-and-pronunciation-workout You can download the free material that we used here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/127589616/Auto-Mode-3-Example
Auto Mode 3 – Practise vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation skills together!
Download All 15 FREE English Banana.com Resource Books – in one download!
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
Matt Purland is teaching a new FREE 8-week course with Myschoolo.com
Last Friday saw the first class in a new free 8-week English course taught by Matt Purland in conjunction with Myschoolo.com. You can find out more details and sign up for this free course here:
http://myschoolo.com/elearning/matt-purland-1/
In the meantime, why not enjoy the video recording of the first class, which was on the topic of The Environment (Studying Language):
Encouraging feedback from a teacher in India who is using our free material and licences!
Many thanks for getting in touch with us – and good luck with your educational venture!
You can find out more about our Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses here.
FREE English Class on the topic of “Clothes”! (VIDEO)
You are welcome to join us for this FREE pre-intermediate English language class on the topic of “Clothes”. It was a pleasure to teach this class last night in partnership with MySchoolo.com
NEW! Free Vocabulary Teaching Material: Talk a Lot – Railway Station – Discussion Words
How to Pronounce: “I like ice cream” (Stress & Connected Speech Mini-Lesson)
A New Series of Self-Study Worksheets – Stress, Reduce, Merge
Introducing new material from English Banana.com that will give you some practice in using connected speech and stress in English. You can download the free .pdf worksheet pack here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/105327558/A-New-Series-of-Self-Study-Worksheets-Stress-Reduce-Merge
Any feedback would be most welcome! Thanks. 
FREE DOWNLOAD! Clear Alphabet Dictionary – Read and Write English as it Sounds!
Hold the Front Page! English Banana Summer School is in the News!
North Norfolk News – 23rd August 2012
NEW FREE DOWNLOAD! Translate 40 Famous People From the NEA (English Phonetic Alphabet)
Using the Phonetic Alphabet in an English Class #3 (Notes – 07.08.12)
FREE! 80 Common Functions of Spoken English – Putting the FUN back into Functions!
Download the MP3 Recording of our Latest Class
You can now download the MP3 recording of our latest class.
Left-click to open in your browser and right-click to download to your computer:
Planning an English Class without a Course Book to Hold your Hand
by Matt Purland (4th June 2012)
Free Talk a Lot Elementary Course Now on YouTube!
Here is the first class from a short Talk a Lot Elementary Spoken English course that I taught online recently. The topic in this recording is “Town” and we’re working from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1. You can find the links for the other four classes in the course below!
Many thanks to Ma3ali English for organising the course and uploading the recordings.
