Live Action English, Millennium Edition

Live Action English - Millennium Edition

A classic that's been around for years, and is used all over the world, this is the first student/teacher book based on James J. Asher's Total Physical Response (TPR). Each page has an illustrated action series of imperatives in a logical order, telling how to do an activity that everyone is familiar with (get up in the morning, chew a piece of gum, iron a shirt, open a present, eat an orange, clean house, take a hike, 67 in all!).

Each lesson is basically an excellent vocabulary lesson which teaches the words in a fun context to be acted out in class. Instructions are included for getting students to the point where they can tell each other what to do, one person giving the instructions and the other performing each action as it comes.

Once they have learned the vocabulary, they are ready to learn to use the words in other contexts and in the future, past, present and present progressive tenses. For many ideas on how to do this, see Recurrent Action Grammar and the Live Action English Interactive Workbooks.

Contee Seely is publisher at the Command Performance Language Institute in Berkeley, California. He was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1939 and grew up in Washington, DC. In 1961 he graduated from Princeton University. He taught English to adult speakers of other languages in Ecuador, Peru, Chile and the San Francisco Bay Area and taught Spanish in high school and to adults (including Peace Corps trainees) and at Vista College (now called Berkeley City College) in the Bay Area. He is the author of ¡Español con impacto! (out of print). With Blaine Ray he is the co-author of Fluency through TPR Storytelling. With Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn he is co-author of TPR Is More Than Commands--At All Levels and of the Live Action series of books in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and (also with Kazue Fukuda and Mary Sisk Noguchi) Japanese. With Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn, Larry Statan, Elizabeth Hanson-Smith and Robert Wachman, he created the CD-ROMs Live Action English Interactive and Live Action Spanish Interactive. In 1989 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the California Council for Adult Education. Elizabeth Kuizenga (Romijn) grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of California in Berkeley in 1969 and began teaching ESL that fall for the Mission Campus of City College of San Francisco, where she is still teaching today, specializing in lower levels and ESL Literacy. In 1983 she received an M.A. in Linguistics-ESL from San Jose State University. She is the author of Recurrent Action Grammar. With Contee Seely she is co-author of TPR is More Than Commands--At All Levels and the Live Action series of books: Live Action English Vive l'action! (Live Action French) ¡Viva la acción! (Live Action Spanish) Viva l'azione! (Live Action Italian) Lernt aktiv! (Live Action German) and also with Kazue Fukuda and Mary Sisk Noguchi: Iki Iki Nihongo (Live Action Japanese) With Contee Seely, Larry Statan, Robert Wachman and Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, she produced the software programs Live Action English Interactive and Live Action Spanish Interactive and also wrote the workbooks for the former. She has presented teacher workshops on TPR and multi-level ESL throughout California and at national TESOL conferences. She has two grown daughters and lives in Richmond, California.