Paul Seligson has been involved in TEFL for over 30 years and is well-known globally for giving lively, highly practical talks and training sessions. He has taught in Algeria, France, Egypt, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Mexico, the UK and Spain where he spent 5 years as ADOS at the British Council in Valencia. He also set up and ran his own language school in Brighton and has vast experience at all levels of school management.
An MA in TEFL and a CELTA assessor, his many primary, secondary and adult publications include Helping Students to Speak for the Richmond Teacher’s Handbook Series, which he also edits, English File (OUP), English Teacher’s Portfolio (British Council, Brazil), Essential English 1-5 and Kids’ Web (both Richmond). In total, he has published over 40 books, along with scores of articles in international magazines. He has trained teachers in four continents, run COTE, DOTE, CELTA, DELTA, FTBE, Graduate and Post-graduate courses and given hundreds of conference sessions worldwide, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. He has also done consultancy work at scores of universities in Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia, and Latin America, and set up observation programmes in Spain, Turkey and Mexico. Most recently, he has been involved in providing training for State School teachers around Brazil.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, he works as a freelance teacher, trainer, author and consultant.
Prepositions (Front Line English Grammar Series) pdf by Paul Seligson
The book contains an introductory section of self-evaluation, 15 units that logically explain more than 50 prepositions, according to their use to indicate time, place, movement, etc.. In the second section of the self-evaluation section a summary of basic uses of the prepositions is explained and and using of prepositions is practised in the lessons of the book.
The summary includes references to the key lessons, answer key to the exercises and an index of all the prepositions, showing where they are explained and practised, both in the lessons and in the summary of the book.
It also contains grammatical explanations in clear and concise Spanish that take into account individual issues, more than 400 phrases of real examples, including bilingual English/Spanish phrases, and more than 60 exercises, all in English.