Tina Kasloff Carver Bücher

A Conversation Book 1: English in Everyday Life, by Tina Kasloff Carver and Sandra D. Fotinos-Riggs, helps beginning level students to develop conversation fluency. The student-centered text and audio teach the vocabulary and life skills necessary for natural communication. Each of the ten units focuses on an essential aspect of daily life such as food, shopping, and work. Activities ranging from role plays to group surveys promise a lively class and help students achieve the language competencies needed to succeed at school and work. With chants by Carolyn Graham. New to this edition: Easy-to-follow unit structure includes a Preview page, six 2-page lessons, Listening Practice, Review, and Assessment wrap-up. Picture Dictionary openers introduce and contextualize the vocabulary of each lesson. Model Conversations and Partner Interviews offer students opportunities to talk about their own lives. Conversation Chants help students acquire the sounds, rhythms, and intonation of conversational English. * The Scope and Sequence highlights correlations to CASAS and state curricula. Note: This is the standalone book

'A Conversation Book' presents a student centred approach to developing conversation fluency and competency-based writing skills.

A Conversation Book 2, Revised Third Edition, by Tina Kasloff Carver and Sandra Douglas Fotinos, presents an inviting, student-centered approach to developing fluency in English conversation. Contextualized picture dictionary- type pages provide students with the vocabulary needed for everyday life. Following each vocabulary lesson, task-based and cooperative activities such as role-playing, storytelling, problem solving, and community activities offer numerous opportunities for students to practice their language and conversation skills. A Conversation Book 2 now includes conversation springboards, complete with an audio program, and grammar. Of Related Interest A Writing Book, Second Edition, is a Teacher's Resource Book which offers more than 100 reproducible masters for cooperative, conmpetency-based writing activities, all coordinated with the lessons in A Conversation Book 1 and 2. Correlations are included in A Writing Book and in the Teacher's Editions of the Conversation Books.

Includes journal-writing activities, informal notes and letters, forms and applications, guided paragraph writing, alphabet and handwriting practice, whole language activities, and teacher's notes.

A CONVERSATION BOOK 1, FOURTH EDITION, TEACHER'S GUIDE provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement each lesson, as well as warm-up and expansion activities. A photocopiable comprehensive test is also included for each unit of the student book.