The Command Book - Softcover

Silvers, Stephen Mark; Asher, James J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940296586 ISBN 13: 9780940296589

Publisher: Sky Oaks Productions, Incorporated, 1999

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The Command Book is for language teachers who use TPR storytelling in their classroom. For long-term retention, TPR the words before you tell a story. The Command Book (for all languages and all ages), shows you how to TPR most of the words in Blaine Ray’s Look I Can Talk series and Todd McKay’s TPR Storytelling series.

• The Command Book is a 300 page resource book, alphabetized for quick look-up.

• Yes, it includes abstractions!

• As a bonus, you will discover how to TPR 2,000 vocabulary items from traditional Level 1 and Level 2 textbooks.

• To be used by ALL language teachers for ANY language. Written in English.

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About the Author

Stephen Mark Silvers has master's degree in Spanish from the University of California (UCLA). He also holds a California State Teaching Credential with a specialization in secondary education. Silvers has over thirty years of classroom experience in the Foreign Language Department of the University of the Amazon in Brazil, where he taught all levels of English. He also served as a US Information Agency Teaching Fellow at the Manaus Brazilian-American Cultural Institute. He initiated innovative TPR training for English teachers in the Amazonas state public school system, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education under the Program for the Development of New Methodologies. He has made presentations at professional meetings such as the Annual TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) in Brazil, Mexico City, and elsewhere. He has publications in the English Teaching Forum, and he is the author of the successful Listen and Perform Student Books in English, Spanish and French, and The Command Book, all based upon Dr. James J. Asher's Total Physical Response, known worldwide as TPR.

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