A new novel – Painted Dog – please read and vote!

Could you do me a favour?

My new novel ‘Painted Dog’ is out now on the Kindle Scout website. https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/165NEN69MTBD9

It’s free for you to read the first few chapters and if you like it, please vote for it. If I get enough votes, Amazon will help me publish and market it.

‘Deep In the ancient jungle, the River Tribe find two of their own, dead. They send for a hunter from the city, but the young man who travels the tropical river to help them, is not quite what they expect.

He is the Painted Dog and with him, comes the old animal they call UkanDooAh.

There are dangers deep in the jungle, giants and ghosts too, but there is also something precious, the village girl, Atepe.’

Using mobile phone / smartphones to teach English - Part 2 - Kindle books

If you're lucky enough to have a smartphone and have cleverly downloaded the Amazon 'Kindle Ap' then you'll already know that there are loads and loads of top class, albeit, old books avaliable to download for free onto your posh phone. You could even download them on your Kindle. Also, if you're keen on a bit of philosophy, you get all the classics here as well.

How can we use these for language teaching?

If your students have the technology to download these books then here are a list of good ones that they can download for free. These titles are upper intermediate and above and I've tried not to add any that are so old that they contain words like 'thou' in the text.

Short stories old and new

Jack London - White Fang

Jack London's short stories

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The legends of King Arthur and his knights

Dracula

What do you do when students have read a text?

This is the conundrum faced by English - English teachers who want their students to think about the life of Hamlet and the same techniques apply.

Check out the advice from yourdictionary.com here

There is also some really good advice on using literature in your classroom  from www.onestopenglish.com click here to read the article

for more stories to read with your class visit

http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/reading_lessons.htm