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Fun Facts for the EFL/ESL Classroom: A Teacher's Resources Book
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Fun facts is an EFL/ESL teacher's resource book up over 1000 "amazing" facts that will captivate and fascinate your students.
You will find facts that are entertaining, amusing, curious, strange, hard-to-believe, and even bizarre. There are facts about animals, countries, famous people, exotic foods, curious deaths, incredible records, cul
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Stephen Mark Silvers
Stephen Mark Silvers taught English and trained teachers in Manaus, Brazil, for nearly forty years, first as a USIS English Teaching Fellow at the Manaus Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (ICBEU) and later at the Federal University of Amazonas. He is now retired and lives in Seattle, where he continues to produce EFL/ESL teaching materials.
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