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Holiday Happenings: THANKSGIVING = 56-Page Activity & Idea Book
ISBN 978-1-891077-07-4 8.00 USD
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Holiday Happenings, THANKSGIVING: Using Special-Occasion Cultural Materials in Language Skills Activities = 56-Page Activity & Idea Book
One reason teachers and students enjoy special-occasion materials is that they provide pleasant diversions from everyday language lessons—instruction in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, grammar, and vocabulary. On the other hand, holiday “lessons” can also be time-wasters—especially in courses with a specified curriculum to cover or a specified language-proficiency level to achieve. It makes sense, therefore, to use information about holiday culture and customs as language teaching and learning vehicles.
This 56-page half-sized reproducible source book offers two levels of reading selections on the history and culture of the North American Thanksgiving—with exercises that improve learners’ abilities to summarize. There are handouts and/or instructions for activities focusing on Getting the Point, Distinguishing Fact from Myth, Using Parts of Speech, Guessing Meaning from Context, Letter-Writing, and other language skills—all in the context of Thanksgiving. Other features include Information Gap Pairwork (recipes), Comparison & Contrast Pairwork (pictures), Sequenced Action Series, and Holiday Humor.
ISBN: 1-891077-07-4 $8.00 US
(In the long-range planning stages is a full-sized, expanded revision of Holiday Happenings: Thanksgiving Celebrations--as well as special- occasion materials for other major holiday seasons around the world.)
One reason teachers and students enjoy special-occasion materials is that they provide pleasant diversions from everyday language lessons—instruction in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, grammar, and vocabulary. On the other hand, holiday “lessons” can also be time-wasters—especially in courses with a specified curriculum to cover or a specified language-proficiency level to achieve. It makes sense, therefore, to use information about holiday culture and customs as language teaching and learning vehicles.
This 56-page half-sized reproducible source book offers two levels of reading selections on the history and culture of the North American Thanksgiving—with exercises that improve learners’ abilities to summarize. There are handouts and/or instructions for activities focusing on Getting the Point, Distinguishing Fact from Myth, Using Parts of Speech, Guessing Meaning from Context, Letter-Writing, and other language skills—all in the context of Thanksgiving. Other features include Information Gap Pairwork (recipes), Comparison & Contrast Pairwork (pictures), Sequenced Action Series, and Holiday Humor.
ISBN: 1-891077-07-4 $8.00 US
(In the long-range planning stages is a full-sized, expanded revision of Holiday Happenings: Thanksgiving Celebrations--as well as special- occasion materials for other major holiday seasons around the world.)
