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I would like to thank Ada Sandoval of Berlitz Kids Mexico, Laurie Camargo of Berlitz Kids Germany, and all their teachers for taking the time to review the manuscript and test the activities in their classrooms. Further thanks go to Silvana Rampone for her comments and worksheet ideas, and Simon Murison-Bowie for being a supportive and insightful editor. My great appreciation also goes out to Julia Sallabank for believing in this project, keeping it moving, and giving me the confidence to be creative.
Finally I would like to thank my children, Kira-Sophie and Nicholas, and their friends at Tollgate School in Pennington, New Jersey, for trying out some of the activities in Spanish and giving me their honest opinions, as only children can.
Line drawings by Ann Johns.
The author and series editor
Gordon Lewis earned a B.Sc. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and a Masters from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California.
While working as a freelance journalist in Vienna, Austria, he taught English and was editor of an English language cultural magazine. He founded Lewis Languages children’s programme in 1991 in Berlin. In 1998 he moved to Munich to concentrate on curriculum design, materials development, and teacher training. He is co-author of Games for Children, also in this series.
From 2001 to 2003 he was Director of Instructor Training and Development for Berlitz Kids in Princeton, New Jersey. He is currently a freelance teacher, trainer, and materials writer, and is also on the committee of the IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group where he works as co-coordinator for events. In 2002 he organized a large YL Conference in Bonn, Germany.
Alan Maley worked for the British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge. From 1993 to 1998 he was Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore, and from 1999 to 2003 he was Director of the Graduate Programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. He is currently a freelance consultant. He has written Literature, in this series, Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind’s Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), The Language Teacher’s Voice