List Books » First Discussion Starters: Speaking Fluency Activities for Lower-Level ESL/EFL Students
Authors: Keith S. Folse, Jeanine Aida Ivone
ISBN-13: 9780472088959, ISBN-10: 0472088955
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
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