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Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics- An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students

 
 
Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics- An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students
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Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics- An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students

IWOSC member and USC professor ERIC ROTH has just published his book, "Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics." The innovative book, designed for non-native English speakers with a sophisticated worldview and still evolving language skills, includes 45 thematic chapters, 1,350 questions, and over 500 quotations and proverbs. Alta catalog, the nation's largest distributor of English as a Second Language materials, has picked up the book. Easy English Times, a monthly newspaper for adult education students, will also be running a monthly column with book excerpts for the next year. Toni Aberson, the book's co-author, has known Roth since before he was born. Roth calls his co-author, an English teacher for over 35 years, "mom. -- Independent Writers of Southern California Newsletter (IWOSC) May 2007 newsletter

This outstanding resource (Compelling Conversations) allows teachers to confidently walk into an advanced ESL classroom with self-contained, engaging conversation lessons. The 45 thematic chapters allow you to both evoke student experience with long lists of practical and savvy questions. The inclusion of global proverbs and classic quotations also provides larger cultural contexts to inspire deeper conversations - or writing assignments. Students should also appreciate the generous amount of authentic language. I wish I would have had that book in my old adult/university classes. A great book for adult education teachers, university instructors, and private tutors!" -- Eric Busch, director/founder, Eslhq.com August 2007

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Product Details:
Author: Eric H. Roth
Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing/ Chimayo Press
Publication Date: March 02, 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 141965828X
Package Length: 10.3 inches
Package Width: 8.1 inches
Package Height: 0.4 inches
Package Weight: 0.95 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 25 reviews
 
 

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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

4a great help!  Nov 02, 2009
I find this book to be a great help for conversation lessons. it's full of questions/tips/quotes that help students to discuss together, in group or individually on all kinds of different topics.

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5An outstanding resource  Nov 01, 2009
Many advanced ESL students, while relatively proficient in reading and writing, are lost when it comes to engaging in in-depth conversations in which they must go beyond pleasantries and use their newly-acquired language to express ideas, recount experiences, and support their opinions. Compelling Conversations gives teachers the tools to help students do just that, providing an easy-to-use, straightforward framework that nudges students into authentic, and, as the title suggests "compelling" conversations. After using this book consistently, students not only will be more fluid and confident in their ability to converse on a more-than-superficial level, they also will have gained an awareness of how their peers view the world.

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5Practical, Useful and Much Needed!  Oct 06, 2009
An excellent resource full of more than just conversation starters, but whole conversation threads and ideas to get English learners into real life discussions. The quotations are a great way to get a class discussion going. I wish I had something like this when I spent time in France and Indonesia and was learning the languages.

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5Activate your students' speaking skills with Compelling Conversations  Sep 08, 2009
This book is a much-needed tool for ESL instructors. If you have the opportunity to use this text in your classroom, you won't be sorry! The era of photocopied vocabulary lists read by rote is thankfully over, thanks to textbooks like Compelling Conversations. With delightful international proverbs and real-world questions about their own experiences, students practice in class and gain the confidence required to enter the nuanced, fun and engaging depths of the English language. This text offers students and teachers alike the opportunity to truly connect through language, conversation skills should be taught in ESL class as outlined by Roth.
- Denise M.

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2Not Necessary  Jun 28, 2009
I was soon to be a new facilitator for an adult Conversation Class, and wanted curricular resources. I bought this and another book. I'm sorry I did. I found all the lesson plans I could ever want on line. Doing a search for ESL Adult Conversation gave me creative ideas to carry me through the full eight week program.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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