Over 1,000 Conversation Starters

Over 1,000 Conversation Starters and Strategies for Creating a Lively 'We Live There' Communicative Classroom for ANY Language Course by Sue Fenton, M Ed. Imagine a book you can keep on your desk that has over 1400 stimuli (serious, funny & wacky) you can use to get ALL students to communicate. Get tons of ideas for setting up a highly COMMUNICATIVE classroom (from the decor to lessons to materials, to listening, to activities. Read about a new 'virtual language' curriculum strategy: MOVE your students into their own apartments in a WORLD city for the ENTIRE year and simulate LIVING there. This sets the scene for maximizing COMMUNICATION every day and gives language purpose. See how you can make everything you teach (including grammar) COMMUNICATIVE. How to 'frost' every example, lesson, assignment, activity and role play with real locations and culture details (products like cereals and soft soaps, stars, T.V. channels, names of real stores, etc.) Teach students not only language, but give them practical world knowledge and international skills, too. 100 AP speech ideas, 656 role plays, 200 Improvisation & Skit Ideas, and 500 more conversation starters! NEW! The ULTIMATE Communication BOOSTER!!!! All you need to know to create a highly communicative language classroom that is 'plugged into' the culture(s) Packed with strategies and over 1400 specific conversation starters / realistic practical applications you customize to the culture(s). A curriculum based on the exciting premise 'WE LIVE THERE'. 'MOVE' your students to a WORLD CITY for the ENTIRE YEAR!!! Teach everything from that perspective (and teach world skills!) PART 1: SETTING UP the COMMUNICATIVE Classroom Door Decor Furnishings Magic of Simulation Over 200 Simulation Ideas Setting up 'We Live There' The 4 Types of Role Plays Cultural 'Frosting' Learn Structure thru Language Equipment, Communicative props Wall cue cards 'Scripting' posters Temporary visuals Authentic materials Internet resources Types of flash cards Listening Activities Motivation Murals, Custom visuals & signs Tools Application conversations Music Performing conversations Posting culture news Encouragement & Rewards Scrapbooks, videos, etc. PART 2: Over 1400 Practical and Creative STIMULI for COMMUNICATION (may be altered for levels, tenses, negative, etc.) 656 Role plays on 46 themes 100 AP Speech Topics 200 Improvisation and Skit Topics 100 Story Chains 122 Brainstorming concepts 44 Short Individual Presentations 100 'Guess It' Topics 40 Panel Discussion Topics Warm-ups 40 Social Event Simulations Listening Ideas CHECKLISTS to keep track of the ones you use in each class ALSO: 'Bashing' down the 4 classroom walls and getting global. Taking a flight to simulate leaving the U.S. and going to another part of the world. WE LIVE THERE guidelines, themes, and 109 'We Live There' ideas Making all aspects of a lesson communicative Maximizing communication for ALL students for as much time as possible 4 Kinds of Role Plays (procedures and evaluation) How to make everything you teach COMMUNICATIVE How language (culture) should teach grammar and not vice versa. Day 1 Total Immersion plan. Getting students and parents to help create materials / flash cards