Resource Books for Teachers: Global Issues

This book focuses on language learning as a natural way to foster cross-cultural understanding and uses a variety of hands-on techniques to tackle stereotypes and cultural barriers. The book raises awareness of global and social issues via art, music, drama, and games. It encourages reflection, critical thinking, and a questioning attitude, with many opportunities for improving communication skills through open discussion, reasoning, and putting forward different points of view.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.