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OUR PARTNERS Deadly Cocktail Jealousy, rivalry, lies, betrayal of a friendship, and a terrible mistake are the ingredients of a deadly cocktail … approx. 50 pages, softback ISBN 978-3-589-01502-3 (September 2008) • Rumpelstiltzken • The First Moccasins • Anansi and Turtle • Jack and the Beanstalk • How the Chipmunk Got his Stripes. 12 pages each, softback numerous illustrations Cornelsen Verlag 14328 Berlin E-Mail: [email protected] Cornelsen online www.cornelsen.de/international www.cornelsen.de/teachweb Cornelsen is the German Member of the European Educational Publishers Group P9339 01.08 Latest Reading Material for Young English Learners Cornelsen Primary English Lib- rary now offers ten readers for young learners of English in their second year of English learning. The stories are presented in two ways: each volume contains the story as both a cartoon version and a text version. The appendix of each book provides an illus- trated glossary listing the key vocabulary items. Private detective Patrick Reich is the central character in this entertaining detective series for readers with a German language level of CEF A2–B1. The ‘man for all cases’, Patrick Reich is good looking, dyna- mic, fit, wears a red bow tie and, with the help of his girlfriend Constanze, is trying to give up smoking. They talk about his work when they go jogging and together find answers to a num- ber of tricky questions. From his office window, Patrick has a wonderful view over Kassel, host of the Documenta art exhibition and the setting for his cases. Crime doesn’t stop even in a town like Kassel. Occasionally Patrick receives help from his detec- tive friend chief superintendent Richard. The stories are for young people from 16 years onwards and are il- A listening CD with the ten stories and a separate recording of the glossary is available as sup- port for independent reading. The following titles are available: • The Frog Prince • Australian Animals • A Christmas Carol • How the Whale Got his Throat • Puss in Boots lustrated and contain definitions as well as cultural information, interesting Internet addresses, puzzles and quizzes. Scene of the Crime: Hospital Desperate parents ask Patrick Reich for help in a seemingly no-win situation. What has happened to their child? Patrick Reich tracks down the truth. approx. 50 pages, softback ISBN 978-3-589-01503-0 Everyone Has Their Price Petra von der Aue is at a loss. What’s wrong with her husband? Is he in love with someone else? Is his profes- sional and political career at risk? Petra von der Aue goes to Patrick Reich for help. The detective uncovers a secret … approx. 50 pages, softback ISBN 978-3-589-01501-6 Patrick Reich – Private Detective LICENCEES Brazil Disal Editora Alameda Mamoré, 911 conjunto 107 06454-040 Alphaville - Barueri / SP contact: José Bantim Duarte tel: 0055 11 4195 2811 fax: 0055 11 4195 2811 email: [email protected] www.disaleditora.com.br Our title: Grammar no problem Japan Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd. 6-9-5, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, 101-0021 Tokyo, Japan contact: Yumi Yamaoka tel: 0081 3-5818-1171 fax: 0081 3-5818-1174 email: [email protected] Our title: Kursbuch Geschichte: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart SALES PARTNERS Canada German Book House 2056 Bloosom Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1H 6G8, Kanada contact: Irmtraut Lyon tel: 001 613 7300555 fax: 001 613 7300734 email: [email protected] www.germanbookhouse.com Japan Goethe Book Co., Ltd. Marunouchi-Bldg. 1110 2-4-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-Ku 100-6311 Tokyo, Japan contact: Takako Kuzumi tel: 0081 3 3211 8481 fax: 0081 3 3215 3739 email: [email protected] www.goethebook.co.jp To be continued … JUST PUBLISHED

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oUr PartnerS

Deadly CocktailJealousy, rivalry, lies, betrayal of a friendship, and a terrible mistake are the ingredients of a deadly cocktail …approx. 50 pages, softback

ISBN 978-3-589-01502-3

(September 2008)

• Rumpelstiltzken

• The First Moccasins

• Anansi and Turtle

• Jack and the Beanstalk

• How the Chipmunk Got his

Stripes.

12 pages each, softback

numerous illustrations

Cornelsen Verlag14328 Berlin

E-Mail:[email protected]

Cornelsen onlinewww.cornelsen.de/internationalwww.cornelsen.de/teachweb

Cornelsen is the German Member of the European Educational Publishers Group

P93�39� 01.08

Latest Reading Material for Young English LearnersCornelsen Primary English Lib-rary now offers ten readers for young learners of English in their second year of English learning.

The stories are presented in two ways: each volume contains the story as both a cartoon version and a text version. The appendix of each book provides an illus-trated glossary listing the key vocabulary items.

Private detective Patrick Reich is the central character in this entertaining detective series for readers with a German language level of CEF A2–B1.

The ‘man for all cases’, Patrick Reich is good looking, dyna-mic, fit, wears a red bow tie and, with the help of his girlfriend Constanze, is trying to give up smoking. They talk about his work when they go jogging andtogether find answers to a num-ber of tricky questions. From his office window, Patrick has a wonderful view over Kassel, host of the Documenta art exhibitionand the setting for his cases. Crime doesn’t stop even in a town like Kassel. Occasionally Patrick receives help from his detec-tive friend chief superintendent Richard.The stories are for young people from 16 years onwards and are il-

A listening CD with the ten stories and a separate recording of the glossary is available as sup-port for independent reading.

The following titles are available:• The Frog Prince

• Australian Animals

• A Christmas Carol

• How the Whale Got his

Throat

• Puss in Boots

lustrated and contain definitions as well as cultural information, interesting Internet addresses, puzzles and quizzes.

Scene of the Crime: HospitalDesperate parents ask Patrick Reich for help in a seemingly no-win situation. What has happened to their child? Patrick Reich tracks down the truth. approx. 50 pages, softback

ISBN 978-3-589-01503-0

Everyone Has Their PricePetra von der Aue is at a loss. What’s wrong with her husband? Is he in love with someone else? Is his profes-sional and political career at risk? Petra von der Aue goes to Patrick Reich for help. The detective uncovers a secret … approx. 50 pages, softback

ISBN 978-3-589-01501-6

Patrick Reich – Private Detective

oUr PartnerS

• Rumpelstiltzken

with the ten stories and a separate recording

LICENCEESBrazil

Disal Editora

Alameda Mamoré, 911 conjunto 107

06454-040 Alphaville - Barueri / SP

contact: José Bantim Duarte

tel: 0055 11 4195 2811

fax: 0055 11 4195 2811

email: [email protected]

www.disaleditora.com.br

Our title:

• Grammar no problem

Japan

Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd.

6-9-5, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku,

101-0021 Tokyo, Japan

contact: Yumi Yamaoka

tel: 0081 3-5818-1171

fax: 0081 3-5818-1174

email: [email protected]

Our title:

• Kursbuch Geschichte:

Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

SALES PARTNERSCanada

German Book House

2056 Bloosom Drive

Ottawa, Ontario K1H 6G8, Kanada

contact: Irmtraut Lyon

tel: 001 613 7300555

fax: 001 613 7300734

email: [email protected]

www.germanbookhouse.com

Japan

Goethe Book Co., Ltd.

Marunouchi-Bldg. 1110

2-4-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-Ku

100-6311 Tokyo, Japan

contact: Takako Kuzumi

tel: 0081 3 3211 8481

fax: 0081 3 3215 3739

email: [email protected]

www.goethebook.co.jp

To be continued …

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to Patrick Reich for help. The detective uncovers a

International Relations and Foreign Rights

Welcome to the World of Learning

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eurolingua Deutsch neu 2, Spain, Herder Editorial, a coursebook for adult learners of German, unites many years of teaching experience with the latest educational theories and is consistently based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The three (or, alternatively, five) volumes cover language leading to CEF level B1 or the Zertifikat Deutsch.

The Short Course Series, Great Britain, Oxford University Press, was developed for learners of English who wish to improve their commu-nicative competence or their skills in English for Specific Purposes. The coursebooks can be used for intensive courses or as supplemen-tary materials to complement other coursebooks.

First Choice, Czech Republic, Nakladatelstvi Fraus, leads to CEF level B2 in five volumes. Special emphasis is placed on communication in English. Two different versions are available, tailored to the needs of either complete beginners with no prior knowledge of English or false beginners.

Fokus Mathematik 7, Lithuania, Sviesa Publishers, enables school students to experience mathematics themselves through real-life examples. The wealth of exercises in the textbook invites students to practice basic skills in depth and to learn problem-solving techniques.

studio d 1 German Language Training and Vocabulary Booklet, Greece, Patakis Publishers, leads to CEF level B1 over three volumes and was conceived for adult learners of German. The series offers a range of exercises and practice material, including the use of a variety of learning and teaching media as well as authentic means of commu-nication.

Your Newsletter-Editors

Cornelsen again received a num-ber of awards for its publications at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2007.

On the opening day, three Cor-nelsen multimedia products were awarded the Software Prize GIGA-Maus 2007. In the cate-gory of best learning software for foreign languages, the award went to the program English Coach 21. The prize for best educational game went to

Genius – Im Zentrum der Macht (Genius – At the Centre of Power). The much-respected trophy for the best learning soft- ware in German was won by the Lernvitamine (Learning Vitamins) series. The GIGA-Maus is a recognized seal of quality for recommended family-oriented software and on-line materials and offers a reliable orientation for children, teen-agers and the whole family.

Cornelsen was also successful in the Best Schoolbook Awards of the European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG). The textbook Chemie im Kontext (Chemistry in Context) received the bronze medal for its innova-tive teaching approach.

Christine Jesse, Head of Public

Relations, accepted the prize on

behalf of Cornelsen from Robert

Fuchs, member of the EEPG board.

In every International News-

letter we present you with

a selection of the licensed

editions which have already

appeared, as well as licen-

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just been signed.

If you would like to examine

any of these titles, just let

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available in your language

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Lithuania

Sviesa Publishers

• Fokus Mathematik 7 and

8 workbook, mathematics

for students in year 5 and

onwards

Latvia

Zvaigzne ABC Publishers

• Fokus Mathematik 5,

mathematics for students

in year 5 and onwards

Finland

Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava

• The Groovy Granny Show,

DVD for English lessons at

primary level

Korea

Galmaenamu Publishing Co.

• Psychologie – Vorsprung

im Job, business manual

Czech Republic

Nakladatelstvi Fraus

• studio d 2 workbook,

German as a foreign lan-

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On behalf of Cornelsen Ver-lagsholding, the department for International Relations and Foreign Rights has registered the Cornelsen name – together with its Chinese transcription – as a trademark in China.

Thus Cornelsen is allowed to present its logo with the inter-nationally recognized ™ trade-mark symbol. The bilingual logo celebrated its premiere at the Beijing Book Fair in Sep-tember.

For those interested, Cornelsen is written as KANG NAI XING in Pinyin, the Latin character transcription of Mandarin. Translated, it means ‘Carnation’.

ELT Congress: How is English Teaching Changing ?On 31st May and 1st June 2007, the Cornelsen departments for Modern Languages and Inter-national Relations and Foreign Rights invited a number of Euro-pean publishers to a conference on English as a lingua franca.

During this conference it be-came clear just how much the sig-nificance of English as a Foreign Language has changed. Whereas EFL used to be learned mainly in order to communicate with native speakers of English, it is now used primarily as a lingua franca. Learners are therefore mainly non-native speakers who need to communicate with one another. This means that learners have different requirements of coursebooks and materials.

These new requirements and the related issues were the subject of discussion among publishers from Bulgaria, Latvia, Hungary, Finland, the Czech Republic,

Poland and Italy, in cooperationwith English author Angela Lloyd.The differing needs of Englishlearners in the publishers’ home countries formed the starting point of the discussion.

novative materials for language learning.The conference was accompanied by a cultural programme, which closed with a tour of Berlin on 2nd June.

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The second day of the conference was devoted to the publishers’ responses to these needs and the synergies which could be de-veloped. The day was rounded off with a presentation on in-

In China, ‘Cornelsen’ is known as ‘the Carnation’

Participants of the congress in the courtyard of the Cornelsen Publishing House: 1st row f.l.: Murdo MacPhail

(Cornelsen), Simone Paoletti (Casa Editrice Bulgarini), Norbert Puskás (Maxim Publishers), Holger Behm (Cornelsen)

2nd row f.l.: Helga Holtkamp (Cornelsen), Ewa Bluszcz (BC Edukacja), Hartmuth Brill (Cornelsen), Tomáš Hausner (Fraus

Publishers), Pauliina Luoto (Otava Publishers), Stefanie Käfer (Cornelsen), Kristin Kupsch (Cornelsen)

3rd row f.l.: Martin Fielko (Cornelsen), Prof. Liliana Grozdanova (Lettera Publishers), Sintija Buhanovska (Zvaigzne ABC

Publishers), Selja Saarialho (Otava Publishers), Ildikó B. Soti (Maxim Publishers), Kirsi Vuorinen (Otava Publishers)

Dear Readers,

As a new member of the Inter-national Relations and Foreign Rights section, I joined the de-partment in July 2007 after successfully completing my two-and-a-half-year training with Cornelsen and spending a short period in Marketing. I would

now like to introduce myself as your new contact partner.I am the personal contact for publishing houses outside Euro-pe. In addition, I am responsible for the coordination of product cooperations with partners in other countries and the prepara-tion of materials for geographical and cultural studies.

International Cooperation and Licences has a new Staff Member

I welcome your questions and comments and look forward to working with you.

Yours,Martin FielkoTelephone: ++49 30 897 85 560Telefax: ++49 30 897 85 658E-Mail: [email protected]

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portfolio allows them to be aware of and record their progress in a more informal, less threatening way than taking examinations. Teachers who have not worked on portfolios before may like to have the guidance of well-recognized format, such as the European Language Portfolio.

Three parts to a European Language Portfolio1. The language passportThis summarizes the learner’s experience and ability in foreign languages he or she knows. For example, it could list language courses or studies, use of a language at work, contacts with speakers of different languages and any formal language qualifications 2. The language biographyThis provides a more detailed record of the learner’s language learning experiences. It also provides the learner with an opportunity to set personal goals and to develop individually preferred learning strategies.

3. The language dossierThis is a collection of pieces of

Learner autonomy, sometimes called “learner independence”, refers to the related ideas of involving learners in all aspects of the learning process, and helping them to discover how they personally can best learn a foreign language.

Why it is worth developing learner autonomy and how can teachers best train learners in techniques and behaviours that lead to successful language learning?

Learner responsibilitySometimes it seems to teachers as if learners believe enrolling in a course and paying their course fee will do the job of learning a language for them! It often seems that students remember past experiences at school like sitting and listening to a teacher, writing when they were told to, reading when they were asked to, and perhaps doing whatever homework the teacher gave them. Whilst teachers cannot do the learning for the learners, they can help by encouraging students to break this passive attitude towards and take charge of their own learning. This fosters

learner independence. However, this means that teachers will have to help students acquire useful techniques and behaviours which develop and reinforce good language learning and language practice.

European Language PortfolioOne such technique is the use of a personal language portfolio. The one developed by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg is called the European Language Portfolio. In general, language portfolios are used to help learners reflect on and improve their language learning. They form a record of their language learning, which may also be submitted to institutions and employers in order to inform them of the student’s abilities in a foreign language.

Why is the European Language Portfolio useful?Many learners are not sure ifthey want to take national orinternational examinations. How-ever, without documented evidence of their language ability, they may feel they have no proof of their progress. A learner

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work and language samples that the learner would like to keep. Some items may have been kept for interest. Some illustrate the learner’s skills and achievements in a language.

The advantages of the European Language PortfolioLearners can keep a record of all their language learning and language experiences, both inside and outside educational institutions, for any languages they have come in contact with. They may thus notice that they have more experiences with different languages than they would originally have anti-cipated. Noticing this may inspire learners to deal more confidently with new languages and new language items.

The portfolio enables very informal contacts as well as formal learning to be recorded. It is often in informal situations that intercultural comparisons and differences come to light. By noting down such experiences learners may notice and integrate these phenomena into their language learning techniques.

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systematic record-keeping and self-assessment found in a well-kept portfolio

A further advantage of the portfolio is transparency with respect to progress and objectives for both teacher and learners. Once learners start to keep portfolios and discuss with each other and with their teacher their portfolios items, they begin to reflect on effective learning techniques. As a result, they take notice of areas requiring further practice and feel compelled to set new aims which can be catered for in class or in home study assignments.

A number of studies indicate that fostering learner autonomy in language classrooms is likely to increase learners’ motivation and keeping a portfolio is a significant step towards learner independence.

All in all the European Language Portfolio documents its holder’s language proficiency andexperiences in a reliable, comprehensive, informative andtransparent way, whilst moti-vating them to add to their language experiences as well as upgrade their proficiency and language autonomy in a foreign language.Cornelsen coursebooks like First Choice for adult learners of English and studio d for adult learners of German as a foreign language provide materials for learners to set up and maintain a portfolio. Learners using these courses should find it relatively easy to begin and continue working on a portfolio and their teachers should have little difficulty in guiding their learners in portfolio use because the tools and principles are integrated into these courses.

Briony Beaven

The record of language learning can stay with a learner for many years. Today’s children can begin their portfolios at school and maintain them throughout their schooldays and adult lives. Adults can begin at A1 level and use their portfolios as they go up through the different levels. A portfolio thus encourages lifelong learning.

Keeping records of their learning encourages students to take a reflective approach to their language learning. A reflective approach is usually regarded as one that involves learners and their teacher in processes of action, monitoring, feedback, reflection, and further action. For example, learners will be involved in action by trying to use or understand the target language. They can monitor by recalling or analysing their own or other learners’ language use. Feedback on performance can be given from learner to learner or received by the learner from the teacher. In a reflection phase learners become aware of where and how they could improve performance and note their achievement. Finally, in further action they try again to use or understand the target language. A reflective approach appears to be beneficial to learners being taught through a Communicative Language Teaching approach and assists in maximizing the positive effects on language learning through task-based instruction.

The teacher, knowing that more autonomous learners are better learners, will need to train the learners to work more independently. Teachers may also encourage learners to think about the way lessons and activities are organised and to begin noting what they are able to do in the target language. This leads naturally into the more

Examples from First Choice B1

Example from studio d, A2

Example from studio d, A1

Cornelsen International Newsletter 1/2008�

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Our company was established in spring 2007. Already in March we started our recruitment drive, seeking appropriate specialists for our marketing, financial and edi-torial departments. Fortunately for us, Monika Wieczorek, owner of the company Certus, who had been remarkably effective as the Cornelsen Verlag distributor in Poland in 2006 (selling hand-books for learners of German as a foreign language), has agreed to become our Marketing and Sales Manager. We have therefore been lucky not only to maintain con- tinuity of distribution and pro-motion, but also to benefit from Ms Wieczorek’s experience in creating interesting offers for learners and teachers of German as a foreign language – the pro-duct area envisaged to yield 50 per cent of our total expected revenue in the initial period of the company’s activity. We stress the fact that the choice of titles to be adapted by Bc.edu from Cornelsen’s vast programme for the needs of the Polish market was not an easy task.

As our objective is to enable the learner to communicate in a

foreign language with the cus-tomers, colleagues, superiors etc. – be it a post abroad, an interna- tional student exchange or research sharing – we have decided upon a compact offer, uniform in con-cept, that would meet the needs of adolescent and adult learners of German, English and Spanish, who seek handbooks linked to a business/professional context. Hence such titles as: Short Course Series (Business English), Espanol Profesional, Training berufliche Kommunikation. Obviously, we do not intend to stop promoting our extensive GFL offer – there is considerable interest in learning German in Poland and the num-ber of students eager to sit for B2 is growing.

In spring 2007 we managed to complete the team of methodical advisers. It was not a simple task, as the job of an advisor and a rep-resentative involves considerable mobility, availability as well as high professional and linguistic skills. At present the team con-sists of four people, as planned: three of them are German philo-logy graduates (Agata Juraszczyk, Joanna Jadacka, Marcin Urban)

and one is an Anglicist (Paulina Czyżak). Autumn, with its nu-merous meetings, presentations and promotion campaigns is high season for the team, all set to meet their objective: orders placed.

Since July 2007 our editorial section has also started off at full steam. We were lucky in that respect too – an experienced editor and lexicographer, Iza-bella Jastrzębska-Okoń, has be-come our coordinating editor. Together with Maciej Mate-jewski who managed to penet-rate all the secrets of InDesign and Quark Express, and aided by the team of translators and proofreaders, she managed to prepare adaptations and licence editions of Studio d, Sequenzen, der Short Course-Seriesas well as the first part of Espanol Pro-fesional for the autum season in record time.

Our season has just begun; the warehouses are getting filled with freshly printed copies.

All we have to do now is start sel-ling, selling, selling…

A New Member of the Cornelsen Publishing Group – BC Edukacja Steps In in Poland

Our Newsletter provides information about the Cornelsen Publishing Group. Our Newsletter also provides informa-tion about current publications from Cornelsen and is also available at our Website: www.cornelsen.comOur Newsletter also provides a forum for all those who wish to exchange ideas and to discuss their experience of using our books. We look forward to receiving your comments, sugges-tions and questions.

Contacts:

International Relations and Foreign RightsHolger Behm tel.: +49 30 897 85 341fax: +49 30 897 85 658 email: [email protected]

Kristin Kupschtel.: +49 30 897 85 380fax: +49 30 897 85 658email: [email protected]

Martin FielkoTel: +49 30 897 85 560Fax: +49 30 897 85 658E-Mail: [email protected]

International Marketing and SalesAnne Fuchstel.: +49 30 897 85 532fax: +49 30 897 85 499 email: [email protected]

Ann-Kathrin Schwenklertel.: +49 30 897 85 465fax: +49 30 897 85 277 email: [email protected]

Karsten Ermlichtel.: +49 30 897 85 758fax: +49 30 897 85 277 e-mail: [email protected]

International MultimediaDevelopmentVicente José Ariolitel.: +49 30 897 85 467fax: +49 30 897 85 567email: [email protected]

ImprintNewsletter · Publisher: Cornelsen Verlag GmbH & Co. OHG Mecklenburgische Str. 53D-14197 Berlin

Editor & Co-ordinator:Holger Behm, Kristin KupschWith contributions from: Briony Beaven, Ewa Bluszcz, Isabella Siegl, Caroline Anderson

Design und Production: Cornelsen Verlag, Advertising Dept.

All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the Cornelsen Publishing Group. Price changes reserved. Prices include VAT. Prices valid: 1.1.2008.

The team of BC Edukacja (f.l.): Monika Wieczorek, Ewa Bluszcz, Maciej Matejewski, Izabella Jastrz bska-Okon, Sylwia Kozłowska,

Zuzanna Łubkowska, Magdalena Rostkowska, Joanna Jadacka, Agata Juraszczyk, Paulina Czy ·zak, Marcin Urban

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Beruf: LehrerIn Teachers face the question every day: How do I plan my lessons? Which methods are able to com-municate specialist and commu-nicative competence most effec-tively?The Methodology series from Cornelsen Scriptor makes good teaching easy. Teachers and

teacher trainers. The Methodo-logy series is available for the following subjects:Mathematics, History, Religion, Politics, French, Geography, Music, Chemistry, Physics

208–304 pages each, soft

back, numerous illustrations

trainee teachers will find sound guidance on the choice and use of methods as well as practical instructions for the design oflively and motivating lessons which promote independent andco-operative learning.The Methodology series is written by educationalists, teachers and

Apply the Right Method

Something is happening in mathe-matics ... even children under ten should learn more than just arith-metic. Mathematics is thought, experimentation, curiosity ...!The Veritas Publishing House in Austria has the answer with two series for differing classroom situations and teacher types:The newly revised Austrian mar-ket leader Th e Numbers Journey (Die Zahlenreise) for school years 1 to 4 consists of one class book and two practice books. Pupils are motivated by the use of ori-ginal and witty illustrations. An alternative simplified version is available for pupils with learning

Th e Road of Numbers (Die Zah-lenstraße) is a comprehensive col-lection of useful copymasters for early mathematics teaching. It can be used in kindergarten/pre-school, in year one of primary/elementary schools, in integra-tion classes or special schools, either alongside or instead of a coursebook.The learning program Journey into the Kingdom of Numbers (Unterwegs ins Zahlenreich 1/2) consists of nine groups of exer-cises each for years 1 and 2, which children can work through them-selves on PC in open learning situations. In this way, they

difficulties from year two on-wards. A CD-ROM with inter-active exercises and detailed evaluation models for teachers and numerous additional mate-rials rounds off the series.The series Alles klar! for school years 1 to 4 is structured clearly according to mathematical areas and contains a varied selection of exercises, which are also quite suit-able for more advanced pupils. Mathematical understanding andpractice are both reinforced and extended with this series.Teachers and students can also choose from a wide selection of additional materials.

Mathematics – More Than Just Arithmetic

A curious silence reigns in current philosophical circles as far as food is concerned, despite the fact that many ethical considerations and questions about our future are directly related to global nutri-tion, and the solutions to these problems depend on how ‘well’ we nourish ourselves.

Th e Ethics of Eating investigates the problem of this speechless-ness for the first time and tracesits historical development. Un-like today, in the past many philosophers dealt extensively with moral theoretical questions regarding good food. In order

to explain the farther-reaching connections of this forgotten philosophy of world nutrition, two theories are developed in Th e

Harald Lemke: The Ethics of Eating An Introduction to Gastrosophy

Harald Lemke

Ethik des Essens

(German edition)

468 pages, hardback

€39.80

ISBN 978-3-05-004301-2

develop their own feeling for numbers, quantities and rela-tions, which is so important in mathematics. The program can be used as an accompaniment to any mathematics coursebook.The Multiplication Tables Trai-ner (Der Einmaleins-Trainer) for years 2 to 4 saves teachers valu-able time which would otherwise be spent preparing lessons on multiplication tables. It offers more than 60 worksheets and copymasters with multiplication and division exercises with which children can practice and memo-rise their times tables.

Ethics of Eating: dietary morality and gastrosophy. The reader is served the following menu:

Starter

First course: Genealogy of Dietary Morals

1. The wild animal in us2. The dry bread of stoic virtue

3. The holiness of (the last) supper

4. On the pressure to confess our sweet sins

5. Critique of purely dietary moral good sense

2nd course: The Gastrosophic Prophet

1. The origins of gastrosophic thought

2. The source of natural health food

3. True hedonism4. You are what you eat

5. Good taste

Additions: Ingredients of a critical theory of good food