Lessons from Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers

by Bruce Marsland

Lessons from Nothing is an invaluable resource for busy teachers everywhere who are looking for easy-to-use activities that do not require extensive facilities or preparation.

It is a practical source of around 70 language teaching activities that encourage interaction and co-operation in the classroom.

Special features: * activities for immediate use * activities for all ages and levels * clear presentation * no photocopying required.

Genres: Teaching, Nonfiction

102 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

Bruce Marsland is the author and editor of several works on language teaching, most notably Lessons from Nothing: Activities For Language Teaching With Limited Time And Resources (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers). Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he has also worked in Finland and Bulgaria. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, doing business as an editor and writer.

Online, his travel writing has appeared in GoNOMAD, and his poetry has appeared in Rat's Ass Review, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Page & Spine, and Sixfold, among others. He has performed at ‘Poetry & Jazz’ in Helsinki, Finland. He has been a winner of the Sentinel Literary Quarterly poetry competition (2016), shortlisted for the Hammond House international literary prize (2017), and a runner-up in the Prole Laureate poetry competition (2018).

Three collections of his poetry, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Those Footsteps Behind (including an illustrated version), and Quarantining: Poems in the Time of Corona, have been published on Lulu.