Arthur A Burrows

Bumper Sticker

Witty, Thought-Provoking Sayings from North American Highways to Think, Talk, and Write about

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Produktbeschreibung

We are currently refreshing our shelves and this title is 70% off with promo code: Super70 Bumper Sticker presents a unique and entertaining path into vocabulary acquisition, cultural literacy, and opinion-based discussion. With 363 authentic and humorous bumper stickers, the photocopiable collection exposes students to concise, impactful language expressing viewpoints on politics, religion, social issues, humor, and everyday life. Each bumper sticker serves as a miniature text--ideal for analyzing tone, intent, cultural context, style, and figurative language. Students interpret meanings, debate viewpoints, compare cultural perspectives, and create their own bumper stickers using new vocabulary. The included Teacher's Guide offers fourteen teaching techniques and blank reproducible forms, empowering instructors to turn these short texts into full lessons on inference, opinion writing, pragmatics, and cultural awareness. Features * Photocopiable collection of 363 authentic bumper stickers * Excellent for exploring tone, attitude, humor, and cultural references * Supports vocabulary building and idiomatic language awareness * Inspires discussion, debate, and expressive writing * Highly flexible format suitable for theme-based lessons and warm-ups * Teacher's Guide with 14 teaching strategies and blank templates Sample Materials * Download sample pages at https: //www.prolingualearning.com/ Similar Pro Lingua Titles * In My Opinion * Conversation Inspirations * This World of Ours * Surveys for Conversation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pro Lingua Learning
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780866473460
• ISBN-10: 0866473467
• Artikelnr.: 68990291

Autorenporträt

Andy Burrows, author of Bumper Sticker was the publisher and president (as well as an author) for Pro Lingua Associates from 1980 through 2021. He began his publishing career as an undergraduate and graduate student at Yale and Radcliffe. He moved to Vermont to be managing editor of The Stephen Greene Press. He then earned his MATESOL degree at the School for International Training, taught at the American Language Academy in DC, and founded the secondary school intensive English program at Northfield Mount Hermon. With Ray Clark, he helped develop language materials in 12 seldom taught languages for the Peace Corps.