Great ideas : listening and speaking activities for students of American English

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Great ideas : listening and speaking activities for students of American English

Leo Jones, Victoria Kimbrough

Cambridge University Press, 1987

  • Student's book
  • Teacher's manual
  • Cassette

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Description and Table of Contents

Volume

Student's book ISBN 9780521312424

Description

Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve listening and speaking abilities. The Student's Book includes such engaging topics as entertainment, current events, employment, strange phenomena, the future, and advertising. Photographs, advertisements, maps, drawings, cartoons, and excerpts from magazines and newspapers help stimulate the exchange. Specially designed communication activities motivate students to share information by providing each student with some information that another student does not have.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. You and me
  • 2. Stranger than fiction
  • 3. Can I help you?
  • 4. What a nice day!
  • 5. Keep in touch
  • 6. Once upon a time
  • 7. Staying home
  • 8. Going out
  • 9. One of these days
  • 10. Staying healthy
  • 11. All in a day's work
  • 12. Getting away from it all
  • 13. In the news
  • 14. I don't agree
  • 15. The persuaders
  • Communication activities
  • Acknowledgments.
Volume

Teacher's manual ISBN 9780521312431

Description

Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve listening and speaking abilities. The Teacher's Manual contains detailed notes on the activities, as well as vocabulary suggestions, glossaries, answer keys (where appropriate), listening scripts, and suggestions for follow-up activities.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. You and me
  • 2. Stranger than fiction
  • 3. Can I help you?
  • 4. What a nice day!
  • 5. Keep in touch
  • 6. Once upon a time
  • 7. Staying home
  • 8. Going out
  • 9. One of these days
  • 10. Staying healthy
  • 11. It's all in a day's work
  • 12. Getting away from it all
  • 13. In the news
  • 14. I don't agree
  • 15. The persuaders
  • Key to communication activities in Student's Book.
Volume

Cassette ISBN 9780521320528

Description

Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve listening and speaking abilities. The Audio Cassette consists of both scripted and authentic recordings of people speaking naturally, with normal pauses, hesitations, and interruptions that occur in everyday spoken language.

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