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On screen or on paper

Linguapress printer-friendly documents

Linguapress grammar pages

Use on any screen or print on paper

When Linguapress first began putting resources on line in 2002, the Internet was still young, and the only way to make sure that a text printed out properly as a document for use in class, was to use PDF.  Things have changed, and today internet resources can be designed to be viewed on any screen, and print correctly or coherently directly from a web page... if set up for this.
   Being both responsive and printer-ready, pages on Linguapress are not just "cross-platform" and "responsive" – meaning that they can be viewed equally well on a PC, a laptop, smart phone, or interactive whiteboard ;  they are also easy to print. Linguapress "printer-friendly pages"  print - or save as a PDF file - just the main content of the page, without the parts that are specifically for viewing on screen. To check this out, just click the button on the left, to view or print this current page as a PDF file.

Interactive documents 

A majority of the classroom resources on Linguapress.com are  interactive, and work on any PC, Mac, tablet, or smartphone. And since they're quite free to use, this means that you, the teacher, can open them up in your classroom, and your students can open them up on their phones when outside the classroom (or even in it, if needs be). Texts and worksheets can be projected onto a whiteboard, or displayed on an interactive whiteboard, for optimum in-class use. Students can work on interactive exercises collectively as a class, with you, the teacher, keying in the answers proposed by your students, or else independently by students on their workstation (desktop computer or tablet), from which they can save their answers. Interactive exercises, word games and worksheets can even be done on a smartphone, though the small size of the screen and the absence of an independent keyboard can make this complicated.

Printer-friendly documents - instantly print or save to PDF

Pages on which you see the print button above, or a message such as "Page ready for printing" can be printed out by simply sending the document to a printer.  This will print out just the actual article or short story, plus the student worksheet and teacher notes. Nothing else.... which is generally more useful for teachers than PDF documents or screen saves that may print out everything on the page.
In as many cases as possible this will produce classroom-ready documents, with the article, the student worksheet and teaching tips all printing on separate pages. For a demonstration, just tell your browser to print this file, and check out the print preview that shows up.
   However, since there is not complete standardisation between Internet browsers, the result will be slightly different depending on the browser you use.  Linguapress's "printer-friendly documents" are optimised for A4 printing, as used worldwide, but will print slightly differently on Letter format paper, standard in the USA. They will also print with the printer options set to "shrink to fit" and in black and white.
   Some browsers may not support the "page-break" instruction, and in this case the student worksheets simply print at the end of the article, as seen on the screen, instead of starting a new page.

In due course, all of the Linguapress reading resources will be made fully printer-friendly.
In the meantime,  other articles will print successfully as a printed version of what you see on the screen – complete with the side columns.

Grammar topics

 Linguapress Grammar pages are specifically designed for viewing on-screen : they are all "responsive", so  students can view them on smartphones as easily as on a PC in the classroom. While they are not designed to be printed, they can be printed using standard browsers.
   Alternatively the Linguapress Descriptive Grammar of English is  available worldwide from Amazon as an e-book, as a  paperback, or in a hardcover edition from major bookstores worldwide. This compact reference grammar has been the subject of some great reviews in specialist EFL and ESL magazines worldwide, including IATEFL's flagship "Voices" magazine, TESOLANZ magazine, the EFL Magazine, and others.  To view the title on Amazon, just click the ad to be taken to your local Amazon store.  The hardback edition is available through Barnes & Noble in the USA, and Waterstones in the UK, and main bookstores in many other countries. The Linguapress Grammar is also available in French
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Using articles and stories in the language class

For more about how to used printed articles and short stories in the language class, see the Linguapress guide to  Reading comprehension : working with written texts

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