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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…?!
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.
Find out who is using English Banana.com materials around the world!
English Banana.com – Certificates of Authorisation Map
We’ve just added SEVEN more entries to our map of people who have applied for English Banana.com Certificates of Authorisation. Find out how they are using English Banana.com materials by browsing the special map here:
English Banana.com – Certificates of Authorisation
You can find out more about using our Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses here.
NEW! Free Vocabulary Teaching Material: Talk a Lot – Railway Station – Discussion Words
Please Join My Next Free Class: Practise Connected Speech in English – Final Consonant Linking
About the Class
We’re going to spend a whole lesson looking at final consonant linking in cv connections in English speech. For example, in the sentence “I like English” there is one example of final consonant linking: “like English” becomes Lai King glish
If you are interested in this kind of thing, you will be sure to enjoy this lesson! Make sure you have your microphone plugged in, so that you can speak during the class.
This class will be relaxed and fun, so please come and join us if you would like to improve your speaking and listening skills in a friendly class.
See you there! 
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.
Get Instant Feedback on your English Pronunciation!
Now you can practise your English pronunciation skills and get instant feedback with our really useful new widget:
http://www.englishbanana.com/pronunciation-practice-talk-a-lot-elementary-book-1.html
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
The First English Banana Trust Summer School was a Great Success!
Last week the first English Banana Trust Summer School was held at Greshams School in Holt, Norfolk. The focus was on teacher training and how to teach without a course book, and we were pleased to welcome four English language teachers from Russia, Hungary, and Serbia. Course tutor Matt Purland focused on training the teachers to teach without using a course book, based on methods from his recent manual You Are The Course Book. The teachers thoroughly enjoyed the week, which was sponsored by English Banana Trust. Apart from five hours of lessons per day – and plenty of homework! – the participants were able to enjoy a diverse number of outings ranging from a visit to the famous seal colony at Blakeney Point, a guided tour of Norwich with an experienced historian, and several delightful shared meals and get-togethers with trustees and friends of the Trust.
Here are a few comments from some of the participants at the end of the course:
‘I feel I’ve gained enough confidence to teach without materials. I also feel that my creativity has been exposed to the higher level and that’s really good and exciting.’ – Marija
‘I feel the passion to continue my self-education in this area which I consider to be really innovative…’ – Nadia
Course tutor Matt commented: ‘I would like to thank the Trust for all their hard work and dedication in staging the summer school this year. We have all really gained a lot out of it. It was wonderful to watch our teachers in action and to see them grow in confidence and be able to teach their own lessons without a course book – or any printed material.’
If you would like to get involved with next year’s EBT Summer School – as either a participant or a tutor – please contact English Banana Trust at: ebtrust@englishbanana.com
Or if you would like to book Matt to run a similar week-long training course at your educational establishment, please do get in touch at: info@englishbanana.com
Here are some photos of the participants hard at work in the classroom, and (in bottom picture) with tutor Matt after the final session of the course:
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.
