The Versatile Vocabulary Sketchbook is a vocabulary book designed for English learners who want to take an active, creative approach to mastering old words and new.

This full-colour book introduces powerful visual techniques—mind maps, diagrams, charts, and personalised study methods—to help you organise, retain, and use vocabulary effectively. The book also explores intelligent online tools, fresh ways to think about vocabulary, and practical strategies for long-term fluency.

The final 100 pages are blank, giving you space to apply these techniques and build your own custom vocabulary notebook—a method proven to enhance fluency, accuracy, sophistication, and idiomaticity (FASI).

🔹 Deepen your understanding of vocabulary
🔹 Make vocabulary learning active & engaging & beautiful
🔹 Use novel strategies for long-term mastery

EBOOK: For learners who prefer a digital format, the eBook version at learn.versatile.pub provides guidance on creating your own vocabulary notebook using the same techniques.

For more details, visit www.versatile.pub/sketchbook.

You’ve already invested a great amount of time and effort to get accepted into an English speaking university or college. Congratulations! Your new institution, courses and professors have great expectations:

• your English level needs to keep improving along with your understanding of key academic concepts.
• you have to navigate libraries, artificial intelligence, online resources and e-learning courses.
• you are able to create your own knowledge through synthesizing your educational experience with the information you read and hear.

To help you meet these expectations, this workbook will equip you to start higher education with the
• necessary mindset
• language development and study skills
•confidence that will bring you greater satisfaction.

This book and course was inspired by the author's 25 years of university teaching in non-English speaking countries, where the students studied their academic courses in English.

This full-colour 280 page workbook accompanies a 12-week e-learning course which you can read about at afterielts.com.

When you enrol in the course, 100% of cost of this book is refunded through the course fee discount.

VersaText is a free, easy-to-use tool for teaching and studying English through authentic texts. While intuitive to navigate, its true power lies in how you use it. In this book, the creator of VersaText—a language student, teacher, teacher trainer, and author of multiple language learning books—guides you through how to study and teach language as discourse, as vocabulary, and as grammar.

Beyond just explaining the software’s features, this book introduces key aspects of language study, offering hundreds of examples and dozens of engaging activity types that stimulate curiosity about language and engage learners in novel language learning techniques.

For teachers of CLIL, ESP, and EMI, VersaText is an invaluable tool for building lessons on the fly, especially when working with current affairs and specialised topics that lack published resources.

This edition includes full-colour screenshots, providing a clear, detailed look at how to get the most from VersaText.

The Book of How to do things in ELT really does contain 70 Activities, Lessons and Strategies for helping teachers help students learn. It is for English Language Teachers who:
• like lively, productive lessons
• use and learn from prepared activity and lesson plans
• need to know why they do what they do
• help learners learn how to learn
• want to teach grammar and vocabulary as interactively as they teach speaking and writing
• would like some insight into language and language acquisition
• want linguistic advice on helping students speak more fluently
• respect their students enough to challenge them beyond their expected limits

and who are interested in any of the fields whose acronyms are floating around the back cover.
Contributor Notes (790 / 2500)
The author is a teacher trainer with special interests in learner autonomy, interaction, blended learning, and learning language from language. His co-authored book, "Global Issues in ELT" won the prestigious British Council ELTons award for innovation in ELT publishing.

He taught at university in the Czech Republic for 20 years and is now a freelance trainer, mostly with the British Council, and an independent author and publisher.

The book’s website http://www.versatile.pub/the-book-of-how-to.html contains more information about the book as well as links to Versatile’s resources. These include SkELL, VersaText, syllable stress tables, functional language, classroom language, out of your seats, teaching pronunciation, extending vocabulary through collocation and colligation.

Out of Your Seats is a book of practical, interactive and creative language teaching activities for all levels and ages that get learners out of their seats. It offers a wide range of productive and receptive language experiences that enrich the learning of English as a Foreign Language. Teachers may easily adapt any of the activities or lessons with their own content.

The first section contains 24 activities, the second section has 20 complete lessons, and the third section has many photocopiable resources and links to the website: versatile.pub/ooys.

Five Words a Day: Intermediate
Unlock the Power of 1,000 Words
This carefully crafted vocabulary workbook is designed for students who are ready to expand and enrich their English with an approach that is fascinating, challenging, and deeply rewarding. Five Words a Day: Intermediate is dedicated to helping you achieve meaningful, lasting progress — by building both the breadth and the depth of your vocabulary.
This book will guide you through:
* 1,000 carefully selected words over 40 weeks: five words a day, five days a week — a structured and realistic pace for steady advancement.
* Weekly organisation around the grammar patterns that words function in, subcategorised into meaning groups.
* Word templates and glosses: discover not just meanings, but how words function in mini-contexts with their collocations and colligations — a powerful path for converting passive knowledge into active, confident use.
* Online resources: learn to use tools that empower independent and advanced study.
* A vocabulary notebook: record your findings, insights, and examples in colourful, graphic formats to deepen and personalise your learning.
This is not light-hearted, gamified fun. It is a serious book for serious students — those who are ready to challenge themselves and achieve lasting improvement.
By the end of the 40 weeks, you will have expanded your vocabulary, deepened your knowledge of the target words, and developed the tools to keep building your vocabulary independently — strengthening both breadth and depth, and continuing the crucial process of converting passive vocabulary into active, confident use.