The Language of Discussion

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Role-play exercises for advanced students. 1970 - THE LANGUAGE OF DISCUSSION Discussions and arguments amongst friends or in business, defending one's point of view, attacking someone else's — all these activities need specific language skills and techniques. Advanced students cannot progress very far unless they have mastered these language functions, and can use them appropriately in a variety of contexts. Language of Discussion therefore provides an interesting range of thirteen role-play situations for advanced students — about half are illustrated, and half have a business/management setting. Each unit has: a sizeable reading passage to set the scene a brief comprehension exercise to fix essential vocabulary background notes on each character's attitude, age, etc. detailed functional language notes topics for further discussion

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Preface and Teacher's Note This collection of role play exercises is designed to give systematic practice in discussion techniques and strategies for advanced students of English as a Foreign or Second Language. Each unit of work contains a description of a situation, a discussion exercise, some work on the vocabulary and expressions needed for subsequent use in the role play, instructions for the role simulation and descriptions of the different roles, together with language notes suggesting effective discussion strategies. Half of the topics are on subjects of general interest and problems of contemporary society; the other half deal with problems of management or the working environment. The language notes are classified according to a functional approach and aim to give a fairly complete account of the language necessary for formal discussion in English. The concentration on 'set-piece', fairly formal situations is intentional and aims to develop areas of language use which may be unfamiliar even to students with a good command of every-day conversational English.

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