These books provide teachers, trainers, and non-native speakers of English with some great tools that will help them improve their accents.
Focused on improving student fluency, Compelling Conversations celebrates conversations as a way to share our experiences and insights. Designed for high intermediate and advanced students, Compelling Conversations uses open-ended questions, paraphrasing activities, intercultural proverbs, and classic quotations to encourage students to reflect on their lives and speak more English in class – and out of the classroom. And the “grab and go” format is ideal for hectic English teachers and conversation tutors!
- Increases fluency
- Creates memorable classroom conversations
- Asks over 1,350 stimulating questions encouraging ESL students to reflect, share and discuss
- Introduces 250 classic proverbs from around the world
- Features 500 memorable quotations from ancient sages to modern writers to encourage discussion
- Provides culturally sensitive text that helps students to speak about their experiences
- Develops fluency through partner and group discussion activities
- Includes 45 thematic chapters plus the Academic Word list
Price: $24.50 plus $7.00 shipping and handling
Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession addresses the key fundamental issues of stress and intonation patterns, pronunciation of sounds within words and sentences, and 100 idiomatic expressions that are used in medical vocabulary. This is often the primary book when individuals have intellligibility issues. It is arranged with audio CD accompaniments for all exercises (except Idiomatic Expressions) and the individual can independently practice the units under the guidance and recommendations of the speech-language pathologist.
Price: $125 plus $15 shipping; volume discounts available
Medically Speaking Rules offers vocabulary development, workplace communication strategies, rules and practice for pronunciation of compound nouns, proper nouns, heteronyms, acronyms and initializations, syllable and sentence stress, numbers and more! Clinically oriented paragraphs and case histories for pronunciation practice.
Pricing: $90 plus $15 shipping; book only without CD $45 plus $15 shipping;
volume discounts available
Medically Speaking Idioms presents almost 300 idioms frequently heard in healthcare settings. It includes definitions, examples of use, dialogues, and quizzes for each unit. Male and female voices on the audio CD.
Price: $49.95 plus $15 shipping; volume discounts available