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Compelling Conversations – Japan: Essential Speaking Activities
Chimayo Press publishes an essential collection of speaking activities for Japanese learners of English.
Written by a team of experienced English teachers, Essential Speaking Activities was designed for grab-and-go English lessons and private tutoring. Organized within 12 thematic chapters, this abridged text highlights six fundamental classroom exercises per chapter from Chimayo’s full-length EFL textbook for Japanese learners to promote authentic conversation. As a result, Japanese ELLs learn to describe their lives, share experiences, and develop critical thinking skills in context.
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Compelling Conversations – Vietnam: Supplementary Bilingual Conversation Questions
Chimayo Press publishes a new book with over 400 Vietnamese-English bilingual conversation questions.
Chimayo Press is proud to release Compelling Conversations – Vietnam: Supplementary Bilingual English-Vietnamese Conversation Questions for Vietnamese Learners of English. A bilingual companion to last year’s second edition of Compelling Conversations – Vietnam, this ebook supplement provides easier access to conversational English for Vietnamese learners. These 420 conversation questions help learners share personal experiences and express opinions – in English and Vietnamese.
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Compelling Conversations for Fundraisers
Chimayo Press publishes a new book that reviews the many subtle verbal skills needed for successful fundraising.
Compelling Conversations for Fundraisers:
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Compelling Conversations – Japan
Chimayo Press comes out with new authentically communicative, fluency-focused EFL conversation textbook for Japanese English language learners
Chimayo Press, an LA-based educational publisher, proudly introduces their latest title Compelling Conversations – Japan- Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of Englishand Quotations for High-Intermediate Japanese English Language Learners. The English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbook focuses on fluency and authentic conversations. The 163-page title offers a wide variety of speaking exercises and cultural discussions that consistently encourage and foster deeper communication skills for English language learners.
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Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition Comes Out!
Chimayo Press is proud to release English teacher edition for Compelling American Conversations, hopes to spark more lively ESL classes
Chimayo Press, an LA-based educational publisher, releases Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition. This new title assists educators of English as a Second Language (ESL) working with intermediate students at the American high school and adult education levels, immigrant and international alike. Complementing and expanding upon the original material, Compelling American Conversatons – Questions and Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners, this guide also includes new content on pronunciation, idioms and word structures to spark more lively English classroom discussions.
Compelling American Conversations Receives Critical Praise from ESL Experts
Chimayo Press announces the release of its highly praised new title, Compelling American Conversations- Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English& Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners.Specifically written for US immigrants who wish to improve their English speaking skills, Compelling American Conversations helps intermediate English language students explore philosophical questions and learn about life in America.
This intermediate level textbook adds to the series started by Chimayo Press’ highly successful original title, Compelling Conversations – Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English& Quotations on Timeless Topics, used by English language learners in over 50 countries.
“How can so much learning be in just one book?” asks Planaria Price, prominent adult education English teacher and author of Life in the USA. “Compelling American Conversations is all that an ESL teacher or student needs to use in their course. Included in the Search and Share component are marvelous lessons on using the Internet.…Very accessible for the intermediate learner.” Price, an energetic teacher known for popular TESOL presentations, is also the author of Realistically Speaking.
“Compelling American Conversations is a gold mine,” observes Carl W. Hart, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher and author of Ultimate Phrasal Verb Book and Rocket English Grammar. “Compelling American Conversations is the book I needed when I was a conversation group organizer and is the book I highly recommend to any English teacher in a similar position today.”
“Compelling American Conversations fills an important gap in adult ESL where speaking skills often receive too little attention,” adds Luis Coloma, an ESL specialist at www.springesl.com. “I strongly recommend this textbook for English teachers looking to add more conversation and online exercises to their intermediate ESL classes.”
Compelling American Conversations explicitly emphasizes American English, American cultural literacy, and democratic values. The primary audience remains newcomers to the United States, recent and not-so-recent immigrants, who may be studying at an American high school, adult school, community college, or university.
The 15 thematic chapters include speaking exercises where students ask questions, respond to quotations and paraphrase proverbs. Compelling American Conversations also includes academic vocabulary and more philosophical questions because American immigrants deserve the same level of sophisticated materials which international EFL students enjoy in the stronger international high schools and colleges.
“We hope that with Compelling American Conversations, American English language learners will ask more questions, speak more in their workplaces, and create their own compelling conversations – inside and outside English classes,” concludes co-author Eric H. Roth, a former director of a citizenship program in Los Angeles. “We also believe that actually speaking English – and being able to hold meaningful conversations in English – adds to the quality of life of everyone living here.”
Roth, a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s American Language Institute, co-wrote Compelling American Conversations with his original writing partner, Toni Aberson. A retired high school and college English teacher with 35 years experience, Aberson is also the author of the upcoming It’s A Breeze: Lively English Lessons on 50 American Idioms. Hal Bogotch, the third co-author, brought his 15 years of teaching experience in California’s public schools, particularly in the online Search and Share exercises.
“We all strongly believe that all immigrants deserve a quality education that allows them to express themselves, develop their English language skills, and deepen their critical thinking skills,” adds Aberson.
Bogotch notes, “This new book is specifically designed to connect users – students, teachers, learners in general – to sources, resources, and a greater community of people interested in improving their conversational English and discovering American culture.”
Free sample chapters of Compelling American Conversations are available at:www.CompellingConversations.com, and it can be purchased directly through Amazon.com (ISBN: 978-1468158366; 140 pages).
New English Conversation Textbook Helps US Immigrants Improve Fluency
Chimayo Press’s newly released title, Compelling American Conversations- Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English& Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners, is specifically written for US immigrants who wish to improve their English speaking skills.
This intermediate level textbook helps intermediate English language students explore philosophical questions and learn about life in America.
Compelling American Conversations is based on the highly successful Compelling Conversations – Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English& Quotations on Timeless Topics, but instead emphasizes American English, American cultural literacy, and democratic values. The primary audience remains newcomers to the United States, recent and not-so-recent immigrants, who may be studying at an American high school, adult school, community college, or university.
The 15 thematic chapters include speaking exercises where students ask questions, respond to quotations and paraphrase proverbs. Compelling American Conversations also includes academic vocabulary and more philosophical questions because American immigrants deserve the same level of sophisticated materials which international EFL students enjoy in the stronger international high schools and colleges.
Free sample chapters of Compelling American Conversations are available at:www.CompellingConversations.com, and it can be purchased directly through Amazon.com (ISBN: 978-1468158366; 140 pages).
“We believe that actually speaking English – and being able to hold meaningful conversations in English – adds to the quality of life of everyone living here,” states co-author Eric H. Roth a former director of a citizenship program in Los Angeles. “We hope that with Compelling American Conversations, American English language learners will ask more questions, speak more in their workplaces, and create their own compelling conversations – inside and outside English classes.”
