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Stephen King
Stephen King is a ‘New York Times’-bestselling novelist who made his name in the horror and fantasy genres with books like ‘Carrie,’ ‘The Shining’ and ‘IT.’ Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV.
Haruki Murakami
Japanese author Haruki Murakami wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995), Norwegian Wood (1987) and 1Q84 (2009), among others.
Dan Brown
Dan Brown is the best-selling author of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ known for the intricate plotting and detail in his books.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Writer Gabriel García Márquez, author of Love in the Time of Cholera, has gained worldwide readership with his brand of magical realism.
Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.
James Patterson
James Patterson is a prolific author of thrillers, mysteries, young adult novels and more. His first successful series featured psychologist Alex Cross.
J.K.Rowling
J.K. Rowling is the creator of the ‘Harry Potter’ fantasy series, one of the most popular book and film franchises in history.
Vintage Minis
In these little books, the world’s greatest writers discuss the things that make us human – from our love of food to our fondness for home. But which Vintage Mini is your perfect match?
Take our quiz to find out: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-your-next-read/games-and-activities/2017/may/which-vintage-mini-do-you-need/
Vintage Classics
Vintage Classics is a prestigious, stylish and much-loved classics list that houses the finest writers of the past alongside the outstanding writers of today. Known for our distinctive and elegant cover design, the red spines of Vintage Classics paperbacks have become a hallmark for the most inspiring and entertaining fiction and non-fiction from around the world.
Penguin Essentials
The Penguin Essentials series was launched in 1998 as a collection of modern classics with thought-provoking, striking and unconventional cover design. The launch was led by Art Director, John Hamilton, who purposefully commissioned a diverse and eclectic selection of creatives from around the world – from graffiti artists to tattooists to illustrators to fashion designers – to rethink and reinvigorate the covers of modern classics.
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Penguin Kids
At Ladybird, we use stories to unlock the magic in everyday moments. Bath time, meal time or bed time – all are made better by stories! They transform daily routines into big adventures full of unforgettable characters, exploration and play. We call these moments ‘Ladybird Time’ and we believe mini eyes and minds should enjoy as much of it as possible. Even better, little ones are learning as they go.
Bestsellers
What does this mean? It means that my books, because of the rankings they received at one point on Amazon, were popular enough to be on the bestseller list
Film Tie-in
Common tie-in products include literary works, which may be novelizations of a media property, original novels or story collections inspired by the property, or republished previously existing books, such as the novels on which a media property was based, with artwork or photographs from the property.
Why we decided to run a book club
Why we decided to run a book club?
Firstly, science proves that reading is good for you! 
People who read books live longer according to Yale University researchers; who studied 3,635 people older than 50 years old and found that those who read books for 30 minutes daily lived an average of 23 months longer than non-readers did.
The practice of reading books creates cognitive engagement that improves many things; including vocabulary, thinking skills and concentration. It also can affect empathy, social perception, and emotional intelligence, the sum of which helps people stay on the planet longer.
It is a fact that successful people are readers. This is because high achievers are keen on self-improvement and want to learn new things.
Why not trade wasted time on your phone for flipping pages in bed, on the train, during meal breaks or whilst waiting in line?
You might think that a book club is just a place for bookworms to indulge in their passion, or a place for them to have a debate about their favourite characters with like-minded individuals. With the King’s & Queen’s Club, this is certainly not the case! Our book club is open to everyone and offers lifelong benefits to students through the acquisition of knowledge as well as new skills.
Why we are different:
Contact us for more information:
Web-site: www.kingsnqueens.co.uk
Email: englishbookteam@englishbook.ge
Annual Educational Conference 2018
Daniel Wyzina
Ani Demetrashvili
Sopo Goderdzishvili
Teona Demetrashvili
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Dave Spencer talking about his course
David Spencer
After studying languages at Oxford University, David Spencer trained to be a Secondary School teacher. He then moved to Spain where he has been living and teaching ever since. He continues to teach teenage students every day in a school near Madrid. Dave began writing courses for Macmillan in 1994. His latest series is the 2nd Edition of Gateway, a highly successful multi-level course designed to prepare teenage students for exams and life after school. Dave has given talks to teachers in over twenty countries.
Why Life Skills are important to teach?
Dear Teachers,
You can find here the WHY? Is it important top teach Life Skills?
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About the digital offering
Multimedia
Teachers can find a range of flexible, easy-to-use online tools perfect for all aspects of daily teaching. The multimedia components of Beyond offer a great opportunity to digitise lessons and present the material in different ways varying the pace and dynamics in the classroom, making for more enjoyable and rewarding teaching. Students can benefit from a smart and flexible online learning environment, available wherever they may be, giving them the freedom of learning anytime. Whether students work in class or at home they can access the course. This gives them a unique opportunity to participate in interactive learning, keeping them engaged and motivated.
Online Workbook
The Online Workbook is a digital version of the Beyond Workbook providing students with a variety of interactive activities. It comes with embedded audio and video, which students can use on their personal devices. The Online Workbook instantly marks students’ work, providing immediate feedback to students and sending results to their teacher. This feature makes it easy both for students to have a clear picture of how well they are doing and teachers to see their students’ results and have up-to-date information on their progress.
Presentation Kit
This is the page-faithful, interactive version of the Beyond Student’s Book designed for use as a presentation tool in the classroom. It includes embedded audio and video, interactive activities, a complete answer key and pop-up ‘suggested answers’ for open activities. The Presentation Kit is ideal for working with the Student’s Book material as a class in a visually attractive and captivating way.
Resource Centres
The Beyond Resource Centres are online spaces loaded with additional resources to support Beyond course material. Different Resources Centres are available for teachers and students.
Student’s Resource Centre
For students, the Resource Centre provides a reference bank for media, vocabulary and additional downloadable Beyond materials that extend and practise the main Student’s Book content.
Teacher’s Resource Centre
The Teacher’s Resource Centre provides teachers with extra worksheets and testing to support the course with a whole range of additional Beyond materials to be used in the classroom.
Onestopenglish Lessons
A series of free Beyond lesson plans on onestopenglish provides teachers with extra resources to supplement classroom teaching. Focusing on topic and skills development, the onestopenglish seriesincludes two collections of lessons, Beyond: Arts and Media and Beyond: Knowledge. Each lesson contains step-by-step teacher’s notes and photocopiable worksheets for students, with a new downloadable lesson added each month.
Inside Beyond: Knowledge
Inside Beyond: Knowledge
Dear Teachers
Here you can find a collection of lessons related to schools subjects such as: Geography, History, Science, Maths and Technology.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Classrooms
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate
In this lesson, students practise describing and comparing classrooms, design their dream classroom, evaluate and discuss school subjects and revise useful classroom language.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Learning
Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate
In this lesson, students complete a questionnaire to find out about their learning style, work in groups to write suggestions on how to improve their learning and discover the history of encyclopaedias.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Geography
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate
In this lesson, students identify flags, create a world flag, play a team board game and complete a geography quiz.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Dictionaries
Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate
In this lesson, students complete an information-gap activity about Samuel Johnson’s famous dictionary, learn how to be better dictionary users, identify parts of speech and compete in a dictionary quiz.
· Beyond: Knowledge: The brain
Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate
In this three-part lesson, students do a quiz about the human brain and test their memories, discover which side of their brain is dominant and find out about Albert Einstein.
· Beyond: Knowledge: History
Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate
In this two-part lesson, students read about how Hollywood changes history, discuss historical quotes, do a historical fact quiz and write a fact sheet.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Numbers
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate
In this two-part lesson, students match numbers with pictures, find numbers in the classroom, play a numbers game and complete a ’fill a head with numbers’ fact sheet.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Discoveries and inventions
Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate
In this four-part lesson, students will test their memories / knowledge, read about scientific discoveries and inventions, invent something new, and complete a patent form for a new invention.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Living in the past
Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate
In this two-part lesson, students will read about life in the year 1900.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Languages
Level: Intermediate
In this two-part lesson, students will learn about the influence of English on global languages.
· Beyond: Knowledge: The Planets
Level: Intermediate
In this lesson, students learn about the planets, the space race and the Mars Mission.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Maths and money
Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate
In this lesson, students learn about maths and pocket money.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Phones
Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate
In this lesson, students talk about mobile phones and technology.
· Beyond: Knowledge: History: The 20th century
Level: Intermediate
In this lesson students do a quiz about the 20th century.
· Beyond: Knowledge: Computers
Level: Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate
In this lesson students read about PC keyboards and play a typing game.
Tips for Teachers
With Emma-Sue Prince
In a series of videos focused around life skills for teachers, teacher training expert and author Emma-Sue Prince (Unimenta) offers motivational tips to help us reflect on how we can get the most out of our students and out of ourselves as teachers.
Study Skills
By setting goals and keeping up-to-date with your own learning, Emma-Sue shows how study skills are important for teachers as well as learners.
Creativity
Being creative as a teacher is all about being open to new ideas and being adaptable to change as Emma-Sue highlights in this video.
Self-awareness
From understanding different teaching styles to developing your self-confidence, Emma-Sue Prince discusses the importance of being self-aware as a teacher in this video.
Getting Organised
In this video, Emma-Sue offers tips on how teachers can better organise their time, class and workload.
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For Secondary teachers, Take a tour of Beyond
Beyond is a new course for teenagers, focused on developing the linguistic skills and strategies language learners need. A fusion of life skills and motivating material prepares students for success in the 21st century classroom and beyond.