Local businesses should now ask themselves if they can sell their skills to educational establishments. Do you have a business or skill needed by teachers and their pupils? DJs, chefs, beauticians, dancers, actors, authors, magicians and journalists are examples of skills that students need and require. Can you set up school workshops using your drama, dance and public speaking skills? Take a look at the new diplomas that cover a vast array of specialist skills and start selling your expertise. Can you offer a set of resources to compliment your provision? If you have a particular life experience that you can talk about, you could become a school guest speaker and share your experiences.

Activity days are very popular in schools as large groups of pupils take part in a variety of activities. Teachers are constantly looking to utilise outside help from companies offering sports, drama, dance, circus skills and adventure activities. Educational trips information and ideas are also listed on the site and teachers can look through a number of profiles including Alton Towers and Madame Tussauds and gain all the information they need to plan their trip.

The latest profile on the site is the Antarctica explorer who gives inspirational speeches and provides a variety of clothing, equipment and food rations for the students to try. Another is the artist who works with groups of students to produce wall displays and front entrance makeovers as part of a cross curricular project. There are so many experts out there who struggle with the concept of how to advertise their services to schools. Teachers need you and students love to have a fresh face in the classroom. So what are you waiting for?

One other useful feature of the site is it has many old schools listed going back to the Edwardian & Victorian era many with old photos of long forgotten schools which can be of great help to anyone who is interested in making their own family tree history.

A new feature that has just been added to the website is a schools resources directory where any business that sells their goods to schools like clothing, books, school transport etc can leave their contact details.

A nifty book to have as you learn Spanish is 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners’ Guide), by Seymour Resnick.  This book lists words by categories such as food, time, and family.  The words are also in a dictionary type listing alphabetically.  The words are defined and used in a sentence.  Popular phrases using the words are given.  It is helpful to anyone trying to learn Spanish.

Sticking with the numbers theme, there is another book you can get tremendous help from as you learn Spanish.  It is called 2000+ Essential Spanish Verbs: Learn the Forms, Master the Tenses, and Speak Fluently, put out by Living Language.  This book makes it so easy to learn Spanish verbs; you’ll wonder why you ever thought it would be difficult.  It covers conjugations, irregular forms, and teaches you to form tenses.  It has answers to many tricky questions on verbs.

If you’re a busy sort, maybe you have free time in your car.  Learn in Your Car Spanish Complete Language Course is a tool to help you learn Spanish, written by Henry N. Raymond and Oscar M. Ramirez.  You just play the CD’s in your car, or anywhere else you’d like to, and repeat after the speaker.  The CD’s progress from the easiest to the most advanced.  You will learn enough about basic Spanish dialogue to begin to join in conversations with Spanish speaking people.

If you’re a stickler for details, you might be interested in a book called Spanish Grammar for Independent Learners, by Arie Vicente.  This book covers everything you need to know about grammar.  It has all the information neatly arranged for easy access.  As you try to learn Spanish, you will come across sentences you just know you don’t have right.  This book has a system to troubleshoot your language and help you figure out what you mean to say.

For a taste of Spanish literature, try First Spanish Reader: A Beginner’s Dual Language Book, edited by Angel Flores.  You will find stories old and new within its pages.  You can learn Spanish almost effortlessly by reading these short stories and proverbs.  The easiest ones are first, and more difficult verb tenses are used later on.  The stories are interesting and make it fun to learn Spanish.

The Language Heretic’s Super Crash Course in Spanish Conversation and Culture: GET BY in Spanish in One to Three Weeks is a unique book by L. Adams. It cuts through all the technical aspects of language learning in short order. The focus of the book is simply to give you enough language skills to get you into conversations so that you can learn Spanish from there.  It never claims to make you a scholar.

With all the books and CD’s on how to learn Spanish, you should be able to find books that will make your study easier.  You can check them out at a library, but to get the most good out of them, you usually need to purchase them.  However, that’s not much to spend if you want to learn Spanish.