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Jeremy Harmer's "50 Communicative Activities" is a resource book for language teachers, offering practical techniques to foster communication in the classroom. It is part of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series, which aims to provide inspiration and accessible ideas for English and other language instruction. The book presents a collection of activities categorized by their primary focus, such as engaging communication, communicative practice, interaction with text, decision-making, presenting, and activities in sequences. Each activity includes a procedure, an explanation of its communicative value, and alternative suggestions. The author emphasizes the importance of deep processing, purposeful repetition, and meaningful interaction in effective communicative language learning.