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Interactive Dictations
A Listening/Speaking/Writing Text

Cathy Sadow and Judy DeFilippo have done it again - a lower-lever companion volume to their popular Dictations for Discussion

This is a book of dictations, but with Interactive Dictations, students do much more than take down what they hear. They interact in guided discussions, reacting, debating, deciding, solving, comparing, critiquing, or just talking together. This is the approach of the authors' earlier book as well, but in this book the dictations are somewhat easier and shorter, and the students finish with a writing task.

There are 43 units using the same dictation formats:

• Partial Dictation
• Paired Dictation
• Dictogloss o Prediction
  
  

There are seven different topical areas:

• Work and Money
• Language
• Education
• Ethics and Values
• Food, Health, and the Environment
• Sports
• Americana

The students listen, interact, and talk about these topics: o buying used cars o the pros and cons of pocket translators o Washington, DC o proverbs o subway manners o chocolate o bullies o eating insects o yard sales o immigration o fighting pollution o violence in sports o and lots more

What's different? In this book, the key vocabulary is glossed in a box that precedes the gapped dictations, there is more emphasis on interactive work and cooperative learning, and each unit ends with a writing assignment.

A CD is available for listening or for providing two more "dictators" in the classroom, and the full dictations are available in the back half of the book. Start your students with Interactive Dictations and then increase the challenge with Dictations for Discussion.

Also by Catherine Sadow: - Teacher of the Year MATSOL 2009

Interactive Dictations (Intermediate)
Dictations for Discussion (High-Intermediate to Advanced)
People at Work (High-Intermediate to Advanced)