Live Action English

Command Performance Language Institute, 1997. - 73 pages. Live Action English has over 50,000 copies sold world-wide! This is the first student/teacher book based on James J. Asher s stimulating and effective Total Physical Response (TPR) approach to language acquisition. With a foreword by Asher, the book contains 67 lively happenings (illustrated series of commands) for use with students of all ages in beginning, intermediate and multilevel classes. This Millennium Edition features three brand new lessons (pp. 20, 29 and 42), minor revisions of several lessons, a complete list of props used in each sequence and updated information for the teacher about how to use the book most productively at the elementary, secondary, college and adult levels. Contains much practical colloquial language not found in other texts. The text that shouts out: Hey! This is fun! Let s do it! Generates motivation by giving students a feeling of what real communication in English is like. Every student actually gives commands and physically responds to them real communication the student s own words have power! Elicits emotional responses through the intermingling of words and actions. Produces a sense of amused delight in students a real satisfaction in communicating in their new language.