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 Summary

English Banana.com is a British publisher of educational materials for

teaching and learning English, including the hugely popular Talk a Lot
Spoken English Course books.
All of our materials are freely available to download from this site, and
also from Scribd, CNET, and iTunes. Our unique free licences allow
anybody to make a profit with our materials – without paying any
commission or fees!

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You may download, print, copy, sell, and distribute English Banana.com
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You may use English Banana.com materials to plan and run courses,
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 2. How Can I Make Money? Part 1: Free Copying Licence

•Copy and print books, then sell them to students at your school.
•Work in partnership with your school, with colleagues, with friends, or
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•Set up a distribution deal with bookstores.
•Create your own compilation and market and sell it, e.g. 100 grammar
worksheets. You can claim copyright on any adapted work, but not
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•Your idea here! ________________________________.

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The map on this page shows how people in many different situations around the world are
using these free licences now (January 2010). We want to add your name to the map!
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Case Study 1: INDIA (Haripad)

“I am an English teacher and I have an English institute named CFEE (Centre for English
Education). I am using a lot of worksheets from English Banana.com. I am very happy with
English Banana, and I appreciate all those who behind. I have an idea to use your Big
Activity Book by printing it and distribute it (freely) to my students and their friends. So I
request you to send your authorization certificate and I promise you that I will mention
English Banana in those books. Hope your help.”
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Case Study 2: BANGLADESH (Khulna)

“I want to begin a school to teach how to speak in English fluently, entitled as

‘Talk-a-Lot’, and want to publish the resources, including Big Grammar Book.”

Case Study 3: KYRGYZSTAN (Bishkek)

“We take this opportunity to seek your assistance to support the project titled as
Improvement of the quality of English language teaching in secondary schools
Kyrgyzstan, in particular to give us a written consent to publish teaching materials
from your site in the newspaper named Kutbilim, social and educational science
and popular publication. We think that the material is a great alignment with the
needs of the project. This project will provide English teachers of 2,113 secondary
schools with free access to teaching methodology and professional development
information through Kutbilim newspaper with an issue of 12,000 copies covering
all schools and many libraries in Kyrgyzstan...”

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Case Study 3: KYRGYZSTAN

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Case Study 3: KYRGYZSTAN

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Case Study 4: INDIA

October 2008 – K.M. from India wrote:

“I want to take print of all lesson and worksheet to distribute in my village school.
I will take just process charge (minimum).”

Case Study 5: INDIA

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 4. This is a Unique Offer! Nobody Else is Offering This!

Remember: you are allowed to:

•Use the materials free of charge, with no licence charges, and make a
profit from sales or courses using EB.com materials.

•You may adapt English Banana.com materials.

•You may remove the English Banana.com name and logo from the
materials, or replace it with your own.

•You don’t have to give us any credit, or even contact us prior to using
these licences, but if you do we could help with promotion (see below).

“In short, if you can use English Banana.com materials in any way, this
licence gives you permission to use them.”

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 5. How Can I Make Money? Part 2: Free Licence to Run Courses

•Start a course and charge students, while using the free materials.

•Start a course, charge students, and make them buy the course books.

•Plan your course using the free EB.com planning materials:

http://www.englishbanana.com/how-to-run-your-own-english-course.html

The business plan is your responsibility – we only provide the raw

materials – so make sure that your income will be higher than your costs!

(Of course, you could also offer your courses and the materials for free…!)

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 6. Free Licence to Run Courses – Examples of Use

The map on this page shows how people in many different situations around the
world are using these free licences now. We want to add your name to the map!
http://www.englishbanana.com/certificates-of-authorisation.html

Case Study 1: SRI LANKA

“Hi, i am [M.] from Sri Lanka an English Teacher by Profession. I have come
across your Talk a Lot Book which really thrilled me. i am running an institution in
Sri Lanka. i have planned to start a course based on these books. i will update to
the progress in future.

“i need a favour from you. at the end of the course i would like to mention your
name in the certificate. if you an affiliate our institute we will be able to issue a
certificate with your logo and signature on it which will definitely impress the
students and they will be satisfied that the course is based on foreign syllabus
and the certificate has an international recognition. At the end of the course i can
send the certificates to you via mail. you can sign them and return them back.
How does it sound? please let us know about your stance. Thank you.”

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Case Study 2: THAILAND (Bangkok)

“I teach English in Thailand at one of the most influential all boys colleges in
Bangkok. I also teach privately and have found the Talk a Lot program both fast,
effective and professional… I work and teach English in Thailand. I have used
your materials for around 12 months and have found them to be an excellent
source for materials and information. As a qualified teacher from England and
now a licensed teacher in Thailand, I am involved with teaching in both the
classroom and privately. My project is to expand my private teaching using Talk a
Lot exclusively as I have found that it really covers all aspects of teaching English.
My goal is to get the language off the page and out of the students' mouths. Talk
a Lot has helped me to do this very successfully…”

Case Study 3: JAPAN (Tokyo)

“I am currently teaching English in Japan, working for others. I want to do my own

thing here and I would like for your courses to be a big part of my program. My
students and I really enjoy your courses. The course will be used at my home and
business. Thank you very much!”
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Case Study 4: USA (Bronx, New York City)

“The name of my school is Liberty Learning Group. The idea behind my project is
practice makes perfect, especially when it comes to learning English. I
established this idea to help all people in my community with help in learning
English, but in a group keeping in step with our community. Together we learn
more. I currently have over 45 members between both my groups... I thought of
going to the next step and using computers to help in the practice of learning
English by having students go to the library and visit your website and enjoy using
your materials and lessons to better themselves. I plan to use your materials to
review and reinforce what they learned. I will use your website English
Banana.com to have my members read and complete lessons. For those who do
not have access to computers I have purchased two computers from eBay to
assist in reaching my goal.”

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 7. Why Free Licences?

The primary goal is altruistic, charitable, philanthropic, humanitarian… to make the world a
better place. We believe that education should be free – with the opportunity to learn
English open to all.

“There is no wealth but life.”

John Ruskin, social thinker (1819-1900)

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“Everyone thinks of changing

the world, but no one thinks of
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 7. Why Free Licences?

Why do it? Because I can! I own the rights to these materials, and I want
to do it.

Paradox: the more we give away, the more we receive…

Like any writer, I want my work to be read, and also to be useful. I

believe that it’s far better for many people to use the materials for free,
than for a handful of people to use them and pay.

“I feel that the quotation at the top of this page says it all: ‘There is no
wealth but life.’ What do we have of value, really, apart from life? Life is
fleeting, so if somebody sees value in my work – the English
Banana.com materials – and can use it to improve their quality of life, I’m
very happy for them to do so. I hope that perhaps you will be able to
benefit from one or both Free English Banana.com Licences.”

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