Great Debates: Language and Culture Skills for ESL Students | 
| Authors: Meredith Westfall, John Mccarthy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Category: Book
Buy New: $20.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 689485
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0472089552
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.34
EAN: 9780472089550
ASIN: 0472089552
Publication Date: March 19, 2004
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Product Description
This book provides vocabulary, conversation tips, language learning tips, and discussion activities to help students debate on a wide variety of fairly non-controversial topics, from dining in or eating out, using the phone or e-mail, type A or type B, fiction or non-fiction, love at first sight or love over time, to diet or exercise.
Along with the discussion activities, the book contains some reading, writing, and vocabulary activities.
Each of the 30 units includes:
pre-debate discussion questions
new vocabulary words
a reading that outlines both sides of the debate
comprehension questions
discussion activities that include expressions used in debate-related speech acts and those pertaining to language learning
writing assignments
idiom and vocabulary review.
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| Customer Reviews:
Very Elementary September 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book, thinking it would work well for my college debate class, which is comprised of many ESL and ELL students. It is designed for elementary school students, however, and the word "debates" is used VERY loosely to mean opinions (as best as I can guess).
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