Get your students excited about oral discussion!

Improves your students' performance in speaking, reading and writing and encourages creative student-to-student oral interaction. Based on short, accessible stories from the Hispanic world.

Are your students ever reluctant to talk in Spanish? Often it's because they are worried about 'getting it wrong', because the situation seems stilted, because they lack confidence and sometimes because they're not enthused by the topic of conversation. This book gets your students excited about talking to each other!

Leer, especular, comunicar provides you with discrete units of work which can be slotted in to your teaching programme. They:

• require no preparation on your part – worksheets and teacher answers are provided
• explore themes central to AS & A2 Level / IB Diploma Language B (new syllabus from 2011)
• get students enjoying talking and interacting
• contain a wide range of reading, writing and speaking activities leading to differentiated outcomes
• are ideal for use by a language assistant
• teach grammar and vocabulary
• encourage creativity in discussion, role play and writing

Each unit is centred around a short story, revealed bit by bit and with support vocabulary given to make the reading easier. At each stage questions encourage students to speculate orally (e.g. what might happen next, why someone did something, what the consequences might be, etc.). Because there are no ‘correct’ answers students are freed from the anxiety of ‘getting it wrong’ and are able to use their creativity and imagination in the target language. The student is also given grammar exercises that practise in context grammar points arising from the story. The unit then finishes with a productive task.

The short stories included are:

Un punto negro en el camino – Edith Checa (Spain)
Yo, un internetadicto – Óscar A. Prada (Argentina)
Vidas ordinaries – Xelís de Toro (Spain)
Cuando el árbol voló – Ivonne Recinos (Guatemala)
Morgazo – Antonio Martínez Menchén (Spain)
El acecho – Ángel Balzarino (Argentina)