Do you tutor students in English conversation? Do you teach English to
immigrants, adults, or business professionals? Are you looking for a
new, quality conversation book that combines savvy questions and witty
quotations and proverbs from
around the world? If so, please take a look at
www.compellingconversations.com
for free chapters from a new conversation book.
"Ask more. Know more. Share more. Create Compelling Conversations."
Compelling Conversations, designed for non-native English speakers
with a sophisticated worldview and still evolving language skills,
fills a niche for dedicated teachers and students of English and
conversation. This unique ESL textbook includes a collection of 45
thematic chapters focused on authentic conversations. "Why should we
just talk about the weather and become bored when we could explore our
lives, times, passions, and challenges?" asks professor Eric Roth.
Compelling Conversations:
- asks over 1,350 questions encouraging students to reflect and share;
- features over 500 memorable quotations from ancient sages to modern
writers;
- introduces over 200 proverbs from around the world;
- highlights 450 practical vocabulary words;
- provides enough material for an estimated 180 hours of class time;
- ends each chapter with an "on your own" exercise;
- allows students to develop authentic, meaningful conversations in
English;
- deepens critical thinking skills;
- encourages students to share experiences and insights;
- engages students and creates compelling conversations.
"Many highly-intelligent international students, immigrant
professionals, and working adults seldom have more than the most
superficial conversations in English," notes Eric Roth, adjunct
professor at the University of Southern California and Compelling
Conversations' co-author. "Compelling Conversations was written to
aid this small, yet significant niche of cultured, sophisticated
adults who want to have quality, in-depth conversations about their
experiences and perceptions in their adopted second, third, or even
fourth tongue." Roth has taught conversation and writing cl***** at
the university, community college, and adult education levels in
Southern California.
Easy English Times has also published excerpts from Compelling
Conversations in each issue since April 2007. The monthly national
newspaper for adult education students chose lessons on gardening,
describing families, and practicing job interviews. ESL teachers,
administrators, and students are praising Compelling Conversations:
"A wonderful source of materials triggering authentic (not
stilted) communication."
Dr. Sharon Myers, American Language Institute
University of Southern California
"Compelling Conversations encourages the reader to examine many
different ways of thinking and teaches respect and genuine interest in
other people's models of the world. It teaches active listening skills
and offers gentle conversation reminders, such as be kind, explore, be
open, be sup****tive, that help the reader set a positive intention for
each interaction. I am glad to have found a book that combines great
content, conversational skills and psychology of empowerment."
- Natasha Cooper, author of ESL how-to books Scripts for Winning Jobs
and The Telephone for Business and Daily Life.
"ESL teachers will happily discover this book stimulates students to
talk and encourages them to share their personal stories."
- Diane M. Asitimbay, author of What's Up America?, a cultural guide
for Advanced ESL students.
"As a longtime ESL student and medical professional, I wish I had this
book when I was preparing for the "English Proficiency Exam" in
London. It goes beyond the boring dialogs of most ESL books and
provides great current conversations that fit our crazy modern
times."
- Beja Szerencses, American immigrant, Santa Monica, CA
"This book is excellent! Both teachers and students love it."
- Marina Goldshteyn, Director of CES College
Check it and enjoy your English classroom conversations and tutoring
sessions!
Shalom
Eric Roth
eric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although designed for international students and adult immigrants
in the United States, British educators will find these exercises
quite valuable. I've sold several books to educators in the United
Kingdom.
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