Talk About Values [antikvár]

IntroductionYour neighbor's child is crying because your neighbor is hitting and hurting her.Your friend wants to know what you think of the ugly new sweater she bought and can't return.You're about to marry a man with no money. You want to keep your bank accounts separate, but he insists on opening a joint account.You are late for a job interview when you notice a button missing on your suit.Your soccer team has a game this afternoon. Your friend has offered you free tickets to a concert at the same time, and you would love to go.What do you do? What do you say? Is a neighbor's privacy more important than an individual's safety? Is honesty more important than a friend's feelings? Does marriage mean that you share all you have? Is punctuality more important than appearance at a job interview? Is loyalty to a team more important than personal desires? These and many other questions are raised in Talk About 'Values, a book that stimulates students to communicate because it provokes them to express their personal beliefs and to discuss their own conflicting values. At the same time, it encourages students to compare their values with those of classmates with other personalities and from other cultures and backgrounds. Because there are no correct answers to values questions, students come to realize that no one can be wrong. They lose their fear of failure and concentrate on using English to discuss the issues and convince their classmates.Talk About Values is for adults and young adults at the intermediate level. It prepares students for values questions with a step-by-step approach that gradually familiarizes them with the subject. Each of the twelve chapters contains at least seven sections that proceed from the more simple and concrete (describe a picture, talk about a short reading, answer personal questions) to the more difficult and abstract (solve a values problem, create a roleplay, discuss a proverb).Talk About Values is flexible. It contains group work, pair work, work for the entire class and work for the student to do alone. Suggested roleplays with useful functions appear in every chapter, as well as a proverb, joke and suggested writing topics. Teachers may wish to pick and choose the activities that best suit their particular class or go through an entire chapter.To give students additional practice with the vocabulary used in the text, an appendix contains a fill-in exercise and a crossword puzzle for each chapter. Teachers may wish to use the material in the appendix to preview or to review each chapter.The richness of each chapter of Talk About Values provides hours of stimulating conversation at a level that intermediate students will be able to handle and enjoy.