A classic that's been around for years, and is used all over the world, this is the first student/teacher book based on James J. Asher's Total Physical Response (TPR). Each page has an illustrated action series of imperatives in a logical order, telling how to do an activity that everyone is familiar with (get up in the morning, chew a piece of gum, iron a shirt, open a present, eat an orange, clean house, take a hike, 67 in all!).
 Each lesson is basically an excellent vocabulary lesson which teaches the words in a fun context to be acted out in class. Instructions are included for getting students to the point where they can tell each other what to do, one person giving the instructions and the other performing each action as it comes.
 Once they have learned the vocabulary, they are ready to learn to use the words in other contexts and in the future, past, present and present progressive tenses.

Viva la accion: Live Action Spanish (Spanish Edition)

Contee Seely and Elizabeth Kuizenga

Literature & Fiction

Command Performance Language Institute

A classic that's been around for years, and is used all over the world, this is the first student/teacher book based on James J. Asher's Total Physical Response (TPR). Each page has an illustrated action series of imperatives in a logical order, telling how to do an activity that everyone is familiar with (get up in the morning, chew a piece of gum, iron a shirt, open a present, eat an orange, clean house, take a hike, 67 in all!).
 Each lesson is basically an excellent vocabulary lesson which teaches the words in a fun context to be acted out in class. Instructions are included for getting students to the point where they can tell each other what to do, one person giving the instructions and the other performing each action as it comes.
 Once they have learned the vocabulary, they are ready to learn to use the words in other contexts and in the future, past, and present tenses.

Vive l'action: Live Action French

Contee Seely

Elizabeth Romijn

Reference

How to go from zero to spoken fluency with TPR. For ESL and foreign language teachers alike. Shows how to use Professor James Asher s approach to teach a variety of language skills and structures at all levels:
 Tenses and verb forms.
 Fluency and connected discourse.
 Grammatical structures.
 Idioms and expressions.
 4 basic types of TPR exercises.
 Blaine Ray s TPR Storytelling.
 Written exercises.
 Trouble-shooting.
 Lists of TPR materials, sources of them, TPR presenters.

TPR Is More Than Commands - At All Levels

Make your students' stories, ideas, and concerns into lively conversation lessons. Through the use of super-simple drawings as cues for speaking drawings any non-artist can make create a variety of types of spontaneous speaking lessons. Clear instructions for making simple symbols and conducting lessons. 32 annotated reproducible lessons. Dictionary of 500+ easy-to-copy symbols. For all levels and ages for any language. Symbol indexes in English and Spanish.

Chalk Talks

Norma Shapiro

Book by Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga

Puppies or poppies?: ESL bingo

Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga

Live Action English INTERACTIVE (software) - TPR on a computer

Pobre Ana by Blaine Ray
 The easiest novel in an easy series of novels for first-year students. Ana is a 15-year-old California girl who leads a tough life. Her mother is always on her. Her family doesn't have much money, but her best friends' families are rich. She's extremely jealous of them. When she gets an opportunity to go to Mexico, she goes to a small city where she lives with a very nice family that is poorer than her own family. Her view of her life changes radically. When she gets back to California, she sees everything in a different light. Pobre Ana is short and easy.

Pobre Ana: Una Novela Breve y Facil Totalmente en Espanol (Nivel 1 - Libro A) (Spanish Edition)

Blaine Ray

The 4th novel in the easiest series of Spanish novels in existence for 1st- or 2nd-year students. Sixteen-year-old Carlos Ayala of Cincinnati, Ohio, goes on a cruise with his family from the U.S. to Yucatan. He is the only witness to the theft of an object of great monetary, cultural and personal value. The thief tries to kill him, but...

El Viaje de Su Vida (Nivel 1 / Libro D) (Spanish Edition)

Lisa Ray-Turner

A variety of productive reading, writing and listening tasks for high beginning and low intermediate learners, based on the CD-ROM Live Action English Interactive. Students love this workbook! It was written to accompany the software Live Action English Interactive, but can be used without it. All the answer keys and classroom activities that lead up to the exercises in the workbook are included in the teacher's resource book Recurrent Action Grammar. The answer keys are also available on-line, free of cost, in the Teacher's Resource Guide on this website. Note: This book is not to be preceded by Live Action English Interactive WORKBOOK Level 1. This is not a series. The two workbooks are different levels of the same material. They cover the same 12 units of the interactive software by the same name; therefore either one or the other should be used, according to the level of the class. The Level 2 Workbook is designed for high beginners who have already learned about the basic verb tenses of English (present, present progressive, simple past, future) and may even be starting to use them. These students can comprehend quite a bit of what an English teacher says to them but may not understand speakers who are not gearing their language to beginners. Their comprehension is enhanced by props and visuals. 'If you have a mixed-level group, you may assign the lower-level students to the Level 1 book, and the higher students to the Level 2 book. Most of the lessons are very similar in both books (many are identical), and in most cases, once the exercises have been completed and corrected, the two groups end up with the same questions and answers written in their books, enabling them to pair practice with users of either book.

Live Action Interactive WORKBOOK--Level 2

Elizabeth Kuizenga Romijn

This book is a combination of two books: A comprehensive guide of daily lesson plans implementing the Total Physical Response (TPR) approach to Spanish as a Foreign Language. It is an excellent tool for teaching beginning and intermediate students of ANY AGE level.
 Student lessons for reading and - when students are ready to begin speaking comfortably - for practice in speaking.
 There are TEN THEMATIC UNITS which contain the essential vocabulary needed for survival and success in Spanish. Each unit contains:
 A LIST OF TARGET VOCABULARY This is an overview of the words which will be taught via commands in the lessons of the unit.
 DAILY LESSON PLANS (There are 102 in total.) A step-by-step detailing of exactly what commands are to be presented. TPR is a euphoric experience for both teachers and students. It is important to have the commands you plan to use at your fingertips in order to remain "in command of the situation" (pardon the pun). Using these specific directions, you will have control as well as enjoyment.

Ensenando y aprediendo espanol por medio de la accion (Spanish Edition)

Bertha Segal Cook

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