English Conversation For Teacher

English Conversation for Teacher

Academic Conversations

Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.

ESL Speaking Activities

About this ESL conversation book for adults: ESL speaking activities for busy teachersMake your TEFL lesson planning easier"ESL Speaking Activities: The Ultimate Book for Busy English Teachers. Intermediate to Advanced Conversation Book for Adults" is jam-packed full of speaking cards, worksheets and conversation cards to whip out whenever you want and make your TEFL lesson plans instantly easier. It includes 100+ instant games & activities for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Online & Offline. Speaking is often the most intimidating part of English for many students, and it can be daunting as a teacher, when your students won't speak in class out of shyness or reluctance. This conversation book for adults will give you the tools needed to get students speaking, which will make your classes both more enjoyable and more productive! In the Phrasal Verbs section of this book, you'll find grammar and vocabulary hand-outs before each set of speaking questions. You can do some of these handouts in class, or you can set them as homework if you prefer. They are ideal for preparing students for exams such as the Cambridge Business English exams, and other Cambridge exams like First Certificate and Advanced CAE, as well as IELTS and TOEFL. All the worksheets and ESL conversation cards can be photocopied and used in the classroom and can be adapted to classroom games and warmers.