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ABAX Catalog | Arranged by Type of Text

Classroom Text | Supplemental Texts | Software | Teacher's Resource | Classroom Resource

Classroom Texts

Communication Spotlight: High Beginner
Communication Spotlight focuses on the strategies and skills of speaking: conversation management, involvement strategies, compensation strategies, confirmation stragegies and more.

Top-Up Listening 1

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

A 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Communication Spotlight: Pre-Intermediate
Communication Spotlight focuses on the strategies and skills of speaking: conversation management, involvement strategies, compensation strategies, confirmation stragegies and more.
Top-Up Listening 2

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

The second in a 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Top-Up Listening 3

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

The third in a 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Business Listening & Speaking

For internationally-minded businesspersons

"A no-nonsense business skills book . . . definitely worth considering" – EL Gazette


Business English: Meetings

The language of meetings from start to finish.

A software training program jammed packed with useful study on the language and culture of North American business meetings. Used by top-ranked companies around the world!

Practical Readings 1

Focusing on how text "fits" together

Intensive reading for students from high school through college age. Looks at reading skills and discoursal grammar features, (an area of grammar often neglected).

 

Graded Readers: Narratives and industry profiles for business people

Come Fly With Us

A survey of the airline industry.

No industry has been more affected by the events of the last few years than that of airlines. A look at the industry today and how it is likely to change in the future. A general look at the industry plus many small side stories.

Supplemental Texts

The ABAX Workbook for New Words and Expressions

A vocabulary notebook and much more.

An ABAX original! Put the focus back on vocabulary and back on learner autonomy. Formalizing the role of that dog-eared classroom notebook. If you are interested in vocabulary, you really should have a flip through this.

Software

North American Idioms

Full Multimedia Language Training

Jam packed with video, interactive games, listening games and other activities. This program instructs students in language: meaning, use, appropriacy and culture. Used by schools and colleges throughout North America and Asia.

Business English: Meetings

The language of meetings from start to finish.

A software training program jammed packed with useful study on the language and culture of North American business meetings. Used by top-ranked companies around the world!

Teacher's Resource

Teaching Tenses

Now Back in Print! A Classic

Back in print. This eminently useful addition to your resource shelf. Lots of ideas and photocopiables for teaching tenses. Loved by one generation of teachers, now back in print for another generation!

The Q Book

A resource book for practice in communication

Re-printed and back by popular demand! This photocopiable teacher's resource gets students talking right away. Questionairres stimulate conversation. Divided into 3 sections: reading and discussion, oral work and writing.

The English Teacher's Handbook

A classic reprint from ELB Publishing. The English Teacher's Handbook is an ideal first text in any beginning teacher training course.

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Photocopiable Pairworks for Children

"Enjoyable,… adaptable,… cleverly designed" - IATEFL Issues

Simple info-gap pairwork activities that get your children talking right away.

What's in the Cards?

"Verges on genius" - The Language Teacher

"Four stars!" - The Language Teacher

Letter Recognition, the Alphabet, Phonics, Spelling and more!

 


What's in the Cards? (Japanese version)
Japanese version

Classroom Resource

ABAX Miniature Letter Cards

A must for any children's classroom! Really!

These cards can be used in so many ways we can't even begin to start listing them. Every classroom teaching children should have two or three sets of these lying around. Just ask all the many teachers using them!!

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