English Comes Alive

Do you like vigorous, quick-moving lessons with lots of classroom interaction? If so, you'll like English Comes Alive! Dr. Witherspoon opens with 60 favorite, wake-them-up activities. Then he writes about role playing, creative speaking, correcting slip-ups, acting out words and sentences, outdoor activities, and much more.

There are three chapters for teachers only. Two describe how enthusiasm and love of students make a huge difference in results. A third describes the anatomy of learning, that is, the methods of teaching that best stimulate neural growth. Enthusiasm, love, and our interactions with students largely determine how much they remember.

Witherspoon has extensively tested these lessons during 20 summers of teaching overseas. His students have varied from teenagers to middle-aged professors, from clerks to physicians to non-native teachers of English. Whatever the age or profession of his students, he stresses conversation. "The act of talking," he says, "removes the fear of talking." And by removing that fear, the students become fluent. 

Author: Jim Witherspoon

Publisher: Synapse Books

Released Date: 2012

ISBN: 9780983822417