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As an experienced ESL/ELL teacher with over twelve years of teaching in numerous countries, I developed idée-force with one goal in mind: to produce the most practical, most interesting English language books in the world. Having traveled and taught in both public schools and corporations on four continents since the 1980s, I felt the need for such materials.
There are many good English acquisition books on the market today. However, as researchers have pointed out, most ESL materials fall into two categories: comprehensible, but not very interesting or interesting, but not comprehensible. With this in mind, I created Power Patterns and its sequels to combine interest and comprehensible input. Power Patterns is effective and unique in its design and approach to learning basic, conversational English. I developed a three book series that includes Power Patterns Companion and, for advanced learners, The Adventures of Hiroshi Kabutomushi, which complement each other and stand alone as a learning package or as a supplement to other English learning materials within your existing curriculum.
Why is idée-force's Power Patterns the best choice for your language acquisition needs? Let’s look at its advantages:
- Students best learn English the natural way: through pattern recognition in authentic questions and short answers (just as children learn a language or tourists learn in a foreign setting). This pattern recognition approach is unique worldwide and no other language acquisition book offers this concise and comprehensive approach.
- Our simple, logical, authentic language approach makes learning extremely fast and easy, thus quickly building confidence in learners. For example, instead of taking months to progress through present, past, and future tenses as with other books, learners with Power Patterns pick up these tenses through the patterns of questions and short answers within a week to two weeks.
- Once learners recognize and learn the patterns, they can easily substitute the many (over 300) verbs from the book and can truly use the language, asking hundreds of useful questions within weeks or even days.
- Power Patterns provides excellent review throughout the book. No other book has such easy, continuous, or logical review that is not saved at the end of a chapter, but shown throughout the text. Constant review means greater retention and understanding. No other language book offers this kind of overall review that builds on itself within a single page.
- It’s small by design. This allows it to be used both in and out of the classroom and allows students to get out of their seats and mingle naturally, using Power Patterns in an uninhibited manner.
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