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Dictations for Discussion
Dictation has always been a useful activity, but dictations too often stop at being just that. Cathy Sadow and Judy DeFilippo have brought dictation back with a twist: Discuss the dictation In this book, there are over 50 dictation activities in four different formats: · Partial Dictation. Listen and fill in the blanks · Paired Dictation. The students dictate passages to each other · Dictogloss. Listen and recreate the passage · Prediction. To make the dictations fresh and challenging topics for discussion, the authors have selected them from a variety of authentic sources - the web, magazines, and newspapers. Some are controversial, hot topics. Some are widely appealing human-interest stories with important cultural issues embedded in them. Some are delightfully funny. Each has been used and tested by the authors and fellow teachers. Your students will find themselves naturally drawn into a serious but lively discussion of each article. There are six different topical areas to choose from:
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