I �ve noticed the number of �mini book � contributions growing day-by-day, especially since Pika/Alenka put out her tutorial.

I don�t teach at school, I only give a private help lessons to small groups of students. I always prepare additional teaching material that matches with their school books. I I begin with mini books to increase motivations. A mini book is something unusual comparing with a worksheet. I have noticed that young and a bit older students like mini books very much, they carry them with to the lessons and they have right the small library. Many of mini books that I collected on the Funny English website, they download and printed by themselves. Some of them write e-mails to me to let me know which mini book they have just downloaded, that I know to prepare something new for the next lesson. Others tell me what a mini book they would like to have for the next week � �the present continuous mini grammar book� or a �story with past simple�, ecc. Sometimes I give them a story mini book as prize � for example for a correctly solved crossword.  There are really many possibilities to use them, but it shouldn�t be too much. I try to combine different activities, sometimes a mini book, the next time cards, than a worksheets and so on. But all this I have to do only in small groups � from three to eight students � and this is much easier than in the class.

Hi!  I use the minibooks with my younger learners. Every week I give  starts to them for behaving well, speaking in English in class, doing homework, etc. After collecting 5 or 6 starts they exchange the starts for these minibooks with stories that they love to read. The funny thing is that they don �t like homework but taking home the minibooks they read and practise their English without knowing.So, I use them for extending reading. Moreover, my students read these minibooks to their parents so they also benefit from them!!!!