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.
We Can Do It : 3 pdf by Paul Seligson
We Can Do It! takes an action-oriented approach concerned with learning language in order to achieve real-world outcomes. It gives students a clear goal for their learning and allows them to assess the extent to which they meet the goal.
You can. activities, My progress self- assessment sections, Self-Check tests and self-evaluation pages and My grammar progress self-assessment sections provide varied instances of evaluation to foster student’s autonomy and a sense of achievement, contributing to their motivation and self-esteem.
Special attention is paid to the cultural aspects implicit in language learning through the stories that highlight the aspects of the culture of the English-speaking world, My Culture Dossier section and six culture worksheets which provide further cultural information relevant to the topics addressed in the units.
There are special optional sections with additional practice suitable for KET and Trinity exams.
The Teacher’s Book includes Grammar Boardwork sections with a detailed guide to grammar explanations, Warmer, Reinforcement and Extension activities for every unit and Teaching Tips to fully exploit the We Can Do It! section.
The Teacher’s Resource CD- ROM includes recordings of the songs and listening extracts for the tests and PDF files of all the tests and worksheets.
Tests are designed in two different levels of difficulty: standard and challenging and in two versions: A and B, for students sitting in different rows.
Four Worksheets per unit include activities for the reinforcement of functions and extension in reading, writing and vocabulary.