Speaking Personally Quizzes and questionnaires for fluency practice
Gillian Porter Ladousse
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Contents
Introduction 1
1 You and your image
2
2 The future lies in your hands
8
3 How honest are you?
13
4 Food and fitness
20
5 Life's tensions 28
6 A taste of taste
34
7 Brain fever
40
8 Beyond reason 48
9 Your pen personality
57
10 Our families, our friends 68
11 Left, right and centre
80
12 Laughing matters
86
Answers and scoring instructions
99
Guidelines for teachers and students working alone
105
To the student 105
To the teacher 106
General guidelines 106
Types of exercise 107
Notes on individual units 110
Useful language sections 111
Theme, function and structure chart
Speaking Personally: Quizzes and Questionnaires for Fluency Practice 1st Edition
by Gillian Porter Ladousse (Author)
This book is a collection of absorbing and thought-provoking questionnaires and quizzes with related activities for students of English at upper-intermediate and more advanced levels. Questions requiring a personal response from the reader can serve as an enjoyable and provocative starting-point for fluency practice in the language classroom. The book is designed for use in the classroom, but much of the material can be used by students working alone. Those sections best suited to the individual reader are indicated by a special symbol in the text. At the end of the book both teachers and students will find guidelines on how to work through the units. A chart is also included to show how the activities can link up with main course work.
Speaking Personally
Quizzes and questionnaires for fluency practice
At a friend's wedding you are unexpectedly asked to make a speech.
Do you:
blush?
feel your hands trembling?
begin to stutter nervously?
feel amused?
feel composed?
feel pleased and flattered?[
In each of the following examples, is the writer a man or a woman?
What does their handwriting tell you about their character?
a) Do other people understand you?
b) Do you understand yourself?
c) Do "you really know yourself?
Which of the following drawings do you think best illustrates this word?
BALANCE
This book is a collection of absorbing and thought-provoking questionnaires and quizzes with related activities for students of English at upper-intermediate and more advanced levels. Questions like the ones above which require a personal response from the reader can serve as an enjoyable and provocative starting-point for fluency practice in the language classroom. The book is designed for use in the classroom, but much of the material can be usefully used by students working alone. Those sections best suited to
the individual reader are indicated by a special symbol in the text.
At the end of the book both teachers and students will find guidelines on how to work through the units. A chart is also included to show how the activities can link up with main course work.
Cover cartoon by Bill Belcher; photograph of phrenological head by courtesy of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge.