Speaking and Listening

Comprehensive photocopiable series, covering a range of speaking and listening topics

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The lower book includes activities on giving and receiving instructions and directions, verbal and non-verbal behaviour, improvisational drama, shared reading, using challenging vocabulary, reflecting on experiences, sustaining conversations, taking turns, performing social functions, sharing information, describing, recounting, asking and answering questions, listening to and telling stories, providing opinions, expressing feelings, listening to and reciting poems and listening to and telling riddles and jokes

The middle book includes activities on discussing and dramatising stories, taking turns, raising awareness of gesture, facial expression, tone of voice, audibility and clarity of communication, providing viewpoints, encouraging tolerance for views of others, initiating and responding to conversations, presenting ideas logically, summarising ideas, discussing issues, raising awareness of phrases and expressions, practicing common social functions, listening and reacting to storytellers, suggesting solutions to problems and listening to and making presentations

The upper book includes activities on using more sophisticated vocabulary, listening to and discussing radio broadcasts, miming, interpreting moods, attitudes and emotions, conversing confidently on a range of topics, discussing the effects of jargon, slang and cliche, expressing complex thoughts, discussing the meaning and diversity of local words and expressions, raising awareness of accents and dialects, listening to and questioning presenters, arguing points of view through informal discussion and formal debates, justifying and defending opinions, persuading, responding to arguments, discussing reactions to events and expressing individual responses to literature and other media