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Printable
resources for the ESL or EFL class - English for speakers of other
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Printing documents from the Linguapress archive of graded
English texts
On screen or on paper
Though updated and upgraded whenever necessary, most graded English
documents in
the LInguapress archive began life on paper. Linguapress newsmagazines
were used in schools in many parts of Europe for over two decades
before the Internet came along and provided teachers with a wealth of
material at the click of a mouse.
When Linguapress first began putting resources on line in 2002, the
Internet was still young, and technology was not what it is today.
Things have changed, and today Internet teaching resources
can be much
more than just pages to view on a PC. With this in mind, the
Linguapress archive is being upgraded and updated to make our ESL
resources not just "cross-platform" and "responsive" - meaning that
they can be viewed equally well on a PC, a laptop or even a smart
phone; but also
easy
to print.
Printer-friendly
documents - better than PDF
Pages on which you see the "
Printer-friendly
document : click to print"
button (as on this page, top left) can be printed out by simply
clicking the button. 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.
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 the
Firefox browser,
which is generally popular in the world of education. They will print
with the printer options set to show colour, and at 100%. They will
also print with the printer options set to "shrink to fit" and in black
and white.
They will also print well from the
Chrome browser;
however, the Chrome browser does not support the "page-break"
instruction, so for many documents 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, most 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 mobile-compatible, 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 the Chrome or Firefox
browsers.
Alternatively the Linguapress Descriptive Grammar
of English is now available worldwide from Amazon as an
e-book or as
a
paperback which should be on the shelves of every
high-school and language-school library. Just click the ad to be taken
to your local Amazon store. The Linguapress Grammar is also
available in
French
.
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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