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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
My Ebook Publishing House publishes brand new ebook editions of English Banana.com books!
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!
English Banana Worksheets Now Read More Than 3 Million Times on Scribd.com!
Yesterday we reached a new milestone with the number of times people have read our worksheets on Scribd.com:
We’re so pleased that hundreds of thousands of students and teachers have benefited from using our free material! The most popular worksheet of all is our List of Common Abstract Nouns, followed by our List of 100 Irregular Plural Nouns in English. The most read book is Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1, which has been read an amazing 136,612 times!
You can check out our page on Scribd.com here: http://www.scribd.com/englishbanana
We hope that you will find something interesting there that you can use, whether you are learning or teaching English. 
Please do let us know if you have any feedback about our material.
NEW FREE DOWNLOAD! Translate 40 Famous People From the NEA (English Phonetic Alphabet)
FREE! 80 Common Functions of Spoken English – Putting the FUN back into Functions!
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.
New Free Teaching Manual! “You Are The Course Book”
Internet Usage Questionnaire (New Talk a Lot Material!)
This is a class survey or questionnaire that I made and used with one of my classes recently. It helps students to test question forms as well as discuss attitudes towards using the internet. You could use it in conjunction with material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 – Unit 9: Internet. Have fun!
Free Teacher Training Class for ESL Teachers #1
About the Class:
In this free class for teachers of ESL (English as a Second Language) we will look at how to get great results in an ESL class using the Talk a Lot Method. We will discuss some examples of student work that has been produced using this method, and you will have the opportunity to tell us about your teaching practice.
You can sign up for the class below:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/830928-free-teacher-training-class-for-esl-teachers-1
Download our Latest Online Lesson as a Free MP3 File! “You are the Course Book!”
You can now download our latest free MP3 audio lesson, entitled “You are the Course Book!” It was a really fun session on WizIQ.com this week, so I hope that you will get a lot out of it. Any feedback is of course very welcome!
People are Using English Banana.com Free Licences – 3 Great Examples!
English Banana.com features a wealth of free worksheets and resources for teaching and learning English, and everything is covered by our free licences! Click here for full details. People are free to do what they want to with the materials, and they are doing just that, if the recent examples listed in this post are anything to go by!
Example 1 – Material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1 has been used to make online quizzes:
http://www.allthink.com/v/taletown/
http://www.allthink.com/v/talefooddrink/
http://www.allthink.com/v/shopping/
http://www.allthink.com/v/healthyhealth/
http://www.allthink.com/v/taletransport/
Example 2 – Material from various English Banana.com workbooks has been used to make online quizzes for this Polish website:
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-cwiczenia_gramatyczne-114.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-pisownia_i_ortografia-118.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-rozumienie_czytanego_tekstu-121.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-slownictwo_angielskie-113.html
http://www.maximus.pl/dl-wiedza_ogolna-119.html
Example 3 – A teacher from Jakarta, Indonesia has built a web page using material from Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1:
http://mr-bejo.com/page/44540/unit-2.html
We’re loving the way that you are being creative and using English Banana.com materials online (as well as in your classes offline!)… It is fantastic that people feel able to use the materials in this way. They are there to be used, so… go on! The world is your lobster!
Talk a Lot English Invites You to Discover… YOU ARE THE COURSE BOOK!
You are very welcome to join me for my next FREE online lesson on WizIQ.com next Tuesday evening at 8pm CET:
For full details, please click here:
Some New Talk a Lot Discussion Questions on the Topic of “Homes”
Yesterday I was teaching a pre-intermediate class and needed a few general discussion questions on the topic of “Homes”, so I came up with the following. Maybe you will be able to use them in your class too!
You could include them in a lesson based on the “Home” unit in Talk a Lot Elementary Book 1, for example.
Discussion Questions - Homes...
1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? Why?
2. Which is better – a house or a flat? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
3. How many different kinds of home can you think of?
4. How will our homes be different in 50 years from now?
5. Which city in the world would be… a) the best, b) the worst, c) [insert other superlatives!] to live in? Why?
6. What are the most important factors in choosing a home?
7. Describe… a) your home, b) your grandparents’ home, c) [insert other!]. Compare them.
8. Who would you like to live with, if you could choose? Why?
Two Free English Lessons this week on WizIQ.com!
This week I’m doing two free lessons on WizIQ.com. You are welcome to sign up below! Hope to see you there.
How to Teach English without an Expensive Course Book Public Class
Wed, Mar 07, 2012 | 8:30 PM (Central European Standard Time)
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/778438-how-to-teach-english-without-an-expensive-course-book
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English Banana Trust Free Summer School – Q&A Session #1 Public Class
Sat, Mar 10, 2012 | 5:00 PM (Central European Standard Time)
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/779030-english-banana-trust-free-summer-school-q-a-session-1
Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 2 – Unit 2 – Lesson 4
NEW! Free Lesson Plan: “Time Travelling Job Swap”
More than 1.6 Million English Banana.com Free English Books Downloaded since 2008!
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!
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!
