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Scraps is a unique textbook that allows your
students to talk about what they really know–their
own lives! In each unit, students improve their
vocabulary, listening, and speaking as they look
at a page from a model scrapbook.
But it's the second half of each unit that your
students will really love. Students paste in their
own photos, maps, sketches, and anything else they
like to make their own genuine scrapbook page. Of
course, the scrapbook page is heavy coloured paper
just like a real scrapbook. In the following
class, they talk about their scrapbooks in pairs
and groups. Students learn to talk about
themselves in important topics such as family,
hobbies, school, and dreams.
At the end of the course, students tear the
scrapbook pages out of the book, attach the cover,
and voila–they have their very own English
scrapbook. Every unit also contains a culture
corner so that students can learn about each topic
in other countries. And for presentation courses,
Scraps is ideal because students know their topic
so well that they can focus on presentation skills
and accuracy. Scraps can be used as a main text or
as supplementary material for a conversation,
discussion, presentation, or research-based
course.
Built-in Flexibility...
Eight two-week units make the book ideal as a
main text for one semester, or as supplementary
material for a longer course. The book also
contains extra scrapbook pages so that students or
teachers can choose more topics. Extensive
teacher's notes explain in detail how to adapt the
activities for use with:
- Large classes
- Small classes
- Beginner level classes
- High level classes
- Mixed level classes
Scrapbook - For Real English...
At the end of the course, your students will have
their very own English scrapbook. Perfect for
introducing themselves at any time in the future,
great for revising self-introductions, and an
instant conversation starter for students planning
to travel overseas.
Use this book for:
- Oral Communication classes
- Conversation or Speaking classes
- Discussion classes
- Research-based classes
- Overseas travel preparation classes
A full teacher's guide is available for
this book as a free pdf. To obtain your copy,
please contact Perceptia
Press or your distributor.
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Comments About Scraps
"I used Scraps for the first time this year with
2 classes of first-year non-English majors at a
women's university. For me the great thing about
this course was that we were aiming at a very
definite end product: the scrapbook. This gave a
tight focus to the course and, also, the very
nature of the material meant that the students
were constantly talking about themselves and
things that mattered to them. Classroom sessions
became very lively as the students got into groups
and showed each other their scraps. Every other
week I asked them to write a report on their
scraps, so they were getting plenty of practice in
both speaking and writing. I collected the
scrapbooks in at the end of the course and was
impressed with the great effort many of the
students had put in. I also learned a lot about
the music that they liked, the books and magazines
that they read, some interesting facts about
family members... It was fun. I'll be handing the
scrapbooks back to the students at the start of
the next semester and my hope is that they will
keep them for many years to come as a special
memento."
Bob Jones, Sugiyama University
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