A New Concept in English Coursebooks - Part Three

The third (and finallest) instalment in our merry ESL book..

INTERNATIONAL REALIA     


In international Realia, you get clear, relevant and accurate information about cultures around the world. You will get a chance to ‘sample’ their food (well, look at a picture), look at a very large scale postage stamp map of the world that makes the Mappa Mundi look like it was done on CAD, and hear one of the actors noted above putting on their best Manuel from Fawlty Towers, or the guy at the end of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum who used to sing ‘land of hope and glory’ in a Indian accent  before being told to ‘shaaaadaaaap’,  voices.

Sample listening script  from Unit 2, ‘Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag’:

Ho ho, Italians ride around on Vespa scooters eating ice cream, shouting ‘mamma mia’ and ‘belissimo’, whereas all Americans like to eat apple pie, drink root beer and play baseball every single day (near one of those yellow school buses). Irish people go to the pub all the time, drink Guinness and they like the ‘craic’. Germans are always on time for meetings and nothing ever breaks down. People in Africa on the other hand all have leprosy and they don’t know what rain is.


b) Sample discussion exercise:
 Place the following international heroes into the correct order (hint, the order does not need to be changed):

1)Comrade Lenin
2)Comrade Stalin
3)Comrade Krushchev
4)Comrade Kalinin
5)Comrade Gagarin
6)Comrade Stravinsky
7)Comrade Eisenstein
8)Comrade Tereshkova
9)Comrade Kasparov
10)Comrade Yashin





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