Speak English for Success: ESL Conversations, Topics, and Dialogues - Softcover

Gorea, PhD Lucia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449002072 ISBN 13: 9781449002077

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

Speak English for Success - ESL Conversations, Topics, and Dialogues is a book of reproducible activities designed for intermediate and advanced adult conversation classes to help students develop speaking skills through role-playing, discussion, pair work, or small group interaction. This collection of stimulating activities provides students with an opportunity to use English in social situations and to develop their critical thinking skills. Each activity encourages genuine communication, allowing students to voice their own opinions. The contemporary topics presented in this book are real and provocative, allowing students to exchange ideas about a wide range of themes and engage in lively dialogues about issues they face in their daily lives. Some of the topics and activities presented in this book are Tell Me about Yourself; Friends; Language Learning; Cultural Issues; Jobs and Employment; Dating and Relationships; Holidays; Traveling; Crime; Music; In Case of Emergency; Major World Issues; Pets; Movies and Entertainment; What Would You Say or Do? Up Close and Personal; Newspapers Headlines; Board Games. With such a versatile

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Speak English for Success Speak English for Success - ESL Conversations, Topics, and Dialogues is a book of reproducible activities designed for intermediate and advanced adult conversation classes to help students develop speaking skills through role-playing, discussion, pair work, or small group interaction.This collection of stimulating activities provides students with an opportunity to use English in social situations... Full description

About the Author:

Lucia Gorea, PhD, is a widely published writer, an award-winning poet, and an experienced English and ESL teacher. With degrees in English, French, and TESL, and a PhD in English and Education, Dr. Gorea hastaught Academic English, English as a Second Language, EnglishLiterature, and Language and Culture courses in universities and colleges in Canada, the United States and Europe. Lucia is the author of several articles and books, including ESL Gamesand Classroom Activities, Welcome to America! A Practical Guide to Life Survival Skills, and Journey Through My Soul, a collection of love and mystical poems. She has performed readings and has given lectures in Canada and the U.S., and has made many television appearances on Rompost TV, Channel M. Lucia is a certified translator with the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters and the founder and host of "Poetry Around the World", a multicultural poetry group. Lucia's biographical profile is included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Education, International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, and Marquis Who's Who encyclopedias. Lucia has two manuscripts in print and is currently working on her first novel. She lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada, and teaches English and Intercultural Communication courses at the University of British Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1449002072
• ISBN 13: 9781449002077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92