First discussion starters : speaking fluency activities for lower-level ESL/EFL students / Keith S. Folse, Jeanine Ivone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Folse, Keith S.

Contributor:

Ivone, Jeanine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Spoken English--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language--Spoken English.

Conversation.

Conversation--Problems, exercises, etc.

Discussion--Problems, exercises, etc.

Discussion.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Textbooks.

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Physical Description:

xxi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2002]

Summary:

"First Discussion Starters" includes conversation activities that teachers and students have loved in the best-selling "Discussion" Starters and "More Discussion" "Starters," this time for lower-level ESL/EFL students. "First Discussion Starters" contains: *a variety of tasks and exercises based on real situations from all over the world serious discussion topics such as censorship, prison conditions, and cloning *topics that are lighter in nature such as lotteries, pets, and travel *activities that require students to work together in pairs or small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic *several kinds of oral fluency activities such as problem-solving tasks, court cases, "finish the story," "put the story together," and small group presentations *links to related websites for each unit

Contents:

A serious problem with a pet

Should we censor these popular magazines

Put the story together: mommy's white hair

Group speaking puzzle: professions

Ten proverbs

Jail for parents of absent students

You can be the judge: the $1,00,000 lottery jackpot

Finish the story: the nonsmoking smoker

Sex eduction in schools: what are we teaching our children

Freedom of speech: who says

Finish the story : the mysterious robbery

Animal vocabulary

A serious post office mistake

Three hots and a cot: prison conditions and prisoners rights

Put the story together: the cat and the tree

Group speaking puzzle: travel

Double vision: cloning

Put the story together: I don't want to go to school

A school for men only

So who is the guilty criminal

Animal rights and animal research

Domestic violence: who stops it

An extreme example of school violence

Cosmetic surgery: what price do we pay for beauty.

Other Format:

Online version: Folse, Keith S. First discussion starters.

ISBN:

0472088955

9780472088959

OCLC:

55010533

Online:

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