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I would like to thank the many people who have, in one way or another, contributed to this book: readers, colleagues, teachers on courses, children I have taught, friends, and above all my parents John and Maria, and Angeles. Finally, I must thank Julia Sallabank, whose meticulous work on the manuscript has greatly added to the quality of the book.

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‘Happy birthday to you’ by Patty S. Hill and Mildred Hill © 1935 (renewed 1962), Summy Burchard Music, a division of Summy Burchard Inc., USA. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Keith Prowse Music Pub. Co. Ltd., London WC2 0EA.

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Sarah Phillips trained as an English Language teacher at the Bell School, Norwich, and took her MA in ELT at Edinburgh University. She has held various teaching posts in Europe and has taught on primary teacher training courses with the Norwich Institute of Language Education. She has worked with the Regional Government of Galicia to prepare training courses and materials for teachers of English. She was part of a team that produced a video of children’s songs and games with LINGUA support. At the moment she is working on a textbook for children and teaching at the Instituto de Idiomas at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is the author of Drama with Children, in this series.

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 for The British Council 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. He is currently a freelance consultant and Director of the graduate English programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. His publications include