First Discussion Starters: Speaking Fluency Activities for Lower-Level Esl/Efl Students

By Jeanine Aida Ivone and Keith S. Folse

Book Overview

First Discussion Starters includes conversation activities that teachers and students have loved in the best-selling Discussion Starters and More DiscussionStarters, 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472088955
• ISBN13: 9780472088959
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.2"