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Discussions Volume 1: AZ resource book of stimulating, thought-provoking topics with texts and related questions for ESL and EFL courses (TEFL Discussions) - Softcover

Wallwork, Adrian; Hoeppner, Liz

 
9781093370652: Discussions Volume 1: AZ resource book of stimulating, thought-provoking topics with texts and related questions for ESL and EFL courses (TEFL Discussions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1093370653 ISBN 13: 9781093370652
Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Who's it for?
Intermediate and advanced classes of English (16+) as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL), in any part of the world.

How does it work?
Students discuss questions, which are either in the form of a fun / factual quiz, or related to an authentic text / quotation.

What's new?
The questions and texts break with the approach typically used in ESL /EFL textbooks by presenting a new slant on some traditional topics, and also offering topics that have never been found before in a discussion book. Students will feel they are discussing something interesting, and that the language of discussion just happens to be in English.

How controversial are the discussions?
Unlike Volume 2 and Volume 3, this volume contains no particularly risky exercises in terms of subject matter.

What preparation is involved for the teacher?
In around 90% of the exercises, no preparation is required. Students simply turn to the right page, and away they go. Details are outlined in the Teachers Introduction and the Students Introduction.

What's the duration of a typical exercise?
Depending on the students' level of interest, some exercises can be used as 10-minute warm ups or lesson fillers, others may develop into full-blown 60-minute discussions.

What else do I need to know?
The table of contents indicates which exercises might not be suitable with certain classes, which require preparation by the teacher, and which have a key.

Where can I find sample pages and the teacher's book?
tefldiscussions.com

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About the Author

Adrian Wallwork is a published author (ELT and EAP) who lives and works in Pisa, Italy. He has written four discussion books for Cambridge University Press and Scholastic, 20 books on academic / professional English for Springer Science (1.35 million chapter downloads), four general English books for the BBC, and four course books (+ workbooks and teacher's books) for Oxford University Press, as well as grammar manuals and phrasebooks for Rizzoli, De Agostini and Vallardi.
Adrian is the owner of English for Academics (e4ac.com) a scientific editing agency that revises and edits research manuscripts. E4AC edit around 1.5 million words per year for clients in China, England, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Vietnam.
Adrian also teaches academic/scientific English to international PhD students. 
Below is a list of Adrian's main teacher resource books. The first seven books listed are based on an AZ format. 
Discussions AZ - Intermediate (published by Cambridge University Press) 
Discussions AZ - Advanced (published by Cambridge University Press) 
Discussions Volume 1 
Discussions Volume 2 
Discussions Volume 3 
Elementary Discussions AZ 
Business Discussions AZ 
Discussions You've Never Had
Discussions One-to-One
Warm Ups - general English
Warm Ups - business English
The Book of Days (originally published by Cambridge University Press) 

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Publisher
Independently published
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1093370653
ISBN 13 
9781093370652
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128