ERIC Number: ED154611
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 64
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Gambits 1. Conversational Tools. Openers.
Keller, Eric; Warner, Sylvia Taba
This volume is part of a series, which is in turn part of a course entitled "Contact Canada" and designed for adult Francophone students of English as a second language. The series contains exercises for learning conversational tools. This volume deals with opening formulas, which are grouped under the following categories: (1) attention-getting openers; (2) openers introducing various aspects of a topic; (3) digression openers; (4) opinion openers; and (5) problem openers. A videotaped recording explaining how to use the series effectively is available separately. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Audiolingual Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Language Instruction, Language Patterns, Learning Activities, Pattern Drills (Language), Postsecondary Education, Speech Communication, Teaching Methods, Textbooks, Verbal Communication
Supply and Services Canada, Publishing Centre, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0S9, Canada ($2.30 Canadian). Videotape recording is available from the Public Service Commission of Canada, English Program Development Unit, 460 O'Connor Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OM7, Canada.
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Authoring Institution: Public Service Commission of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). Language Training Branch.
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