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humanuspneumos
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:23 pm Post subject: In your opinion |
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What's the most popular book being used these days?
It seems everywhere I go Let's Go always seems to surface. However, Let's Go for the teacher and students- yawn.
Chatterbox was more exciting- but deficiencies in grammar emphasis made it such that you might as well be using short stories- not to mention it lacked in phonics.
Interchange- well- teenagers and older students want to drop it as fast as they get it into their hands.
Exploring English- Mr. Bascomb just doesn't cut it on the "I can relate to you" realm of things.
Other books really sucked due to their insistance to focus on American history- you almost thought they were history books rather than ESL.
Listen and Hear or Listen and Speak- required no more than a robot to press the tape player.
You get the point- "What's the best series?" |
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peppermint

Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'd think the English Firsthand series would be great for middle school and high schoolers.
If only Pagoda's SLE series was edited better, it would be great for adults. I love how they use freetalking activities even at low levels. When a student at a low intermediate level realizes they've been freetalking for a while, they're usually amazed and proud of themselves. |
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just because

Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964
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Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| humanuspneumos wrote: |
| Exploring English- Mr. Bascomb just doesn't cut it on the "I can relate to you" realm of things |
Who come up with some of the characters in that book??? My fav. is Tino. Everytime I read that all the students think Tico. It is a good book for a lazy teacher but if you want to stimulate the mind it is better to throw it out the window. |
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