POWER TALK is a huge resource of speaking strategies and activities with over 2300 ideas and cues. Students love to talk and socialize. All teachers have to do is to channel this energy to make speaking the new language less intimidating, more second nature, and more fun for students.

Its goals are:

• To get students talking in a wide variety of entertaining ways in meaningful contexts (cultural, social, commercial, life skills)
• To give teachers many more options for speaking activities they can add to their lessons
• To be a quick reference to save teachers time
• To give teachers strategies and ideas they can use to create their own own speaking activities & materials for any units

POWER TALK is a companion book to Over 1,000 Conversation Starters. Where that book sets up a highly communicative classroom and paired speaking stimuli, the focus of this book is on a wider range of speaking STRATEGIES and ACTIVITIES for individuals, pairs, and groups. It has ideas for props and materials, “you are there” visual backdrops, sim-YOU-late to communicate, collections of visual stimuli (pictures, documents, portraits), ways to make both documents and grammar communicative, and using language for life skills in target language communities.

The book contains:

• 50 ways to talk about pictures
• 65 ways to talk about portraits (magazine people, clip art characters)
• 40 ways to talk about literature
• 25 ways to talk about video clips
• 25 ways to talk about text dialogues

75 SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

154 pages Spiral-bound $29.95