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ERIC Number: ED304540
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Jun
Pages: 147
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
We're All in the Same Boat. A Multi-Cultural and Pre-Vocational ESL Curriculum for Intermediate ESL Students.
Batt, Karen
This curriculum manual combines the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) with multicultural and prevocational education. The materials provide students with information about immigration, how immigrants fit into the economic system and society, and how different cultures and races have evolved. Goals are to give students the opportunity to relate this information to their own lives and to provide language exercises. The six chapters are: "They Broke My Car Window!" (prejudice, stereotypes, poverty, homeless persons, migrant farm workers, the elderly, the unemployed, crime and ghetto life); Common Ground (values, feelings, and experiences in common); "What's He So Angry About?" (slavery, segregation and discrimination, civil rights movement); "We're All in the Same Boat Now!" (history of immigration, immigrants); Why We Look and Live the Way We Do (race, culture); and "I Got a Job! But..." (helping or hurting each other, unions and safety, words for work). Each chapter contains a dialogue that sets the theme; questions on comprehension and for oral discussion; a picture series for use as oral practice in telling a connected narrative; and reading, vocabulary, and listening exercises. The teacher's guide at the end of each chapter provides answers to exercises, instructions for accomplishing certain exercises, and suggestions on how to present certain exercises. (YLB)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg.
Authoring Institution: La Salle Univ., Philadelphia, PA. Urban Studies and Community Services Center.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A