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Discussions A-Z Advanced is a photocopiable resource book of speaking activities designed to encourage lively, natural discussion among advanced level students. Providing a refreshing perspective on many common themes the material consists of 26 topic-based units, each filled with a variety of stimulating activities. The units contain authentic reading and listening texts intended to be used as stimulus for discussion. The accompanying cassette provides a wide range of native speaker accents. The teacher's pages provide clear instructions for each activity, as well as providing a wealth of background information on each topic, keys to the activities, complete tapescripts and suggestions for discussion-based writing activities. The material is designed to be flexible and free-standing: activities can either be used as the basis for a discussion course or dipped into in or out of sequence.
Who's it for? Intermediate and advanced classes of English (16+) as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL), in any part of the world. How does it work? Students discuss questions, which are either in the form of a fun / factual quiz, or related to an authentic text / quotation. What's new? The questions and texts break with the approach typically used in ESL /EFL textbooks by presenting a new slant on some traditional topics, and also offering topics that have never been found before in a discussion book. Students will feel they are discussing something interesting, and that the language of discussion just happens to be in English. How controversial are the discussions? Unlike Volume 2 and Volume 3, this volume contains no particularly risky exercises in terms of subject matter. What preparation is involved for the teacher? In around 90% of the exercises, no preparation is required. Students simply turn to the right page, and away they go. Details are outlined in the Teachers Introduction and the Students Introduction. What's the duration of a typical exercise? Depending on the students' level of interest, some exercises can be used as 10-minute warm ups or lesson fillers, others may develop into full-blown 60-minute discussions. What else do I need to know? The table of contents indicates which exercises might not be suitable with certain classes, which require preparation by the teacher, and which have a key. Where can I find sample pages and the teacher's book? tefldiscussions.com
A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author! Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost).He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band (whose members call him the Peasant), has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn't even know he's alive), and is constantly annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven's world is turned upside down, and he is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, his homework, the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you'll have to read the book to find out what that is!).
Oysters in the Land of Cacao delivers a long-overdue presentation of the archaeology, material culture, and regional synthesis on the Formative to Late Classic period societies of the western Chontalpa region (Tabasco, Mexico) through contemporary theory. It offers a significant new understanding of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast.
Discussions You've Never Had is exactly that - around one hundred stimulating discussion topics in an exercise format that has never been used in EFL/ESL. Level? Low-intermediate to advanced, with no adaptation necessary by the teacher. What's new? The choice of topic is made by both teachers and students. This gives both teacher and student a feeling of being emancipated from course books. Discussions You've Never Had provide a refreshing alternative to the usual formula of: one topic + many related questions. Instead the formula is MANY TOPICS in the same exercise. Preparation? Once the Teachers Introduction has been read, the discussions require virtually no preparation. The exercises can be quickly dictated to students, thus no photocopies are required. Duration? The discussions can be exploited both as warm ups or as 20-30 minute discussions. Anything else? Some of the discussions lend themselves well to practising particular grammar and vocabulary points. It is up to the teacher to decide whether to make such points a focus or not. If they do decide to exploit this element, then in this case the preparation simply involves reading the associated teachers notes.
