Write to E-community manager a message with the following information:

1. Use Microsoft word.
2. Each review should have two parts: the overview and the main body.
3. The overview should have information about the author, the title and a short description of the material (about 20-30 words)
4. The main body should contain a detailed reference (including title, author, publisher, and date) and a description (including type of material, language level, age group etc.) See examples.
5. Name, institution, country of the person submitted the review.
6. E-mail address (optional)

EXAMPLE 1: Printed materials.

Overview
Tomalin, B. and S.Stempleski Cultural Awareness.
Contains a lot of activities aimed at developing the intercultural awareness and competence of students from elementary to advanced levels.

Main body
Tomalin, B. and S.Stempleski. 2001 Cultural Awareness OUP
This book contains a lot of activities which can be used in class to develop the intercultural awareness and competence of students from elementary to advanced levels. The topics covered in this book include recognizing cultural images and symbols, working with cultural products, examining patterns of everyday life, cultural behaviour and communication and many others. The book provides ready made lesson plans with information about levels, duration, procedure, possible variations etc, which makes it really easy to use in class. The book has a language focus index where all the activities are categorised on the base of the skills involved and structures taught. You can also find there a list of textbooks for students, videos and other sources for teachers to raise their students’ cultural awareness.

Submitted by Anna Fatneva Lingua English Language School, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

EXAMPLE 2: Web materials

Overview
Hot Potatoes
The site for English teacher material development

Main body
Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked (last accessed: December 1, 2004). The site for English teacher material development. You may be not satisfied with the kind of teaching and testing material you have got, or want to relieve yourself making students work on their own and get feedback at the same time – this is the site for you! It offers the program that lets you create 6 types of exercises: multiple choice, cloze, crossword, jigsaw text, ***, and ***. You can cut and paste the text of your choice and adapt the level of task to suit the needs of your students. You may upload exercises onto the Internet or save them in electronic form to be used in classroom. There is the full tutorial in Russian. Although the program is free, some advanced options for professional use are not. The use of the program requires registering for the key on every single computer.

Submitted by Tatyana Kolesnikova East Kazakhstan State University, Ust-Kamenogorsk