A intermediate and photocopiable resource book of speaking activities for advanced level students.

Who's it for? Intermediate and advanced classes of English (16+) as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL), in any part of the world. How does it work? Students discuss questions, which are either in the form of a fun / factual quiz, or related to an authentic text / quotation. What's new? The questions and texts break with the approach typically used in ESL /EFL textbooks by presenting a new slant on some traditional topics, and also offering topics that have never been found before in a discussion book. Students will feel they are discussing something interesting, and that the language of discussion just happens to be in English. How controversial are the discussions? Unlike Volume 2 and Volume 3, this volume contains no particularly risky exercises in terms of subject matter. What preparation is involved for the teacher? In around 90% of the exercises, no preparation is required. Students simply turn to the right page, and away they go. Details are outlined in the Teachers Introduction and the Students Introduction. What's the duration of a typical exercise? Depending on the students' level of interest, some exercises can be used as 10-minute warm ups or lesson fillers, others may develop into full-blown 60-minute discussions. What else do I need to know? The table of contents indicates which exercises might not be suitable with certain classes, which require preparation by the teacher, and which have a key. Where can I find sample pages and the teacher's book? tefldiscussions.com

The Nature of Life: Readings in Biology, Volume 2

In a straightforward question-and-answer format, Buddhist teacher Daisaku Ikeda responds to the complicated issued facing American young people. Addressing adolescents as the leaders of the future, Ikeda touches on topics of peace, human rights, and environmental degredation as he urges young people with warmth and understanding to see the great potential they have as the hope for humanity. The book also provides easy-to-understand explanations of Nichiren Buddhism and the benefits of its practice.

Suppose you could ask God any question and get an answer. What would it be? Young people all over the world have been asking those questions. So Neale Donald Walsch, author of the internationally bestselling Conversations with God series had another conversation. Conversations with God for Teens is a simple, clear, straight-to-the-point dialogue that answers teens questions about God, money, sex, love, and more. Conversations with God for Teens reads like a rap session at a church youth group, where teenagers discuss everything they ever wanted to know about life but were too afraid to ask God. Walsch acts as the verbal conduit, showing teenagers how easy it is to converse with the divine. When Claudia, age 16, from Perth, Australia, asks, "Why can't I just have sex with everybody? What's the big deal?", the answer God offers her is: "Nothing you do will ever be okay with everybody. 'Everybody' is a large word. The real question is can you have sex and have it be okay with you?" There's no doubt that the casual question-and-answer format will help make God feel welcoming and accessible to teens. Conversations with God for Teens is the perfect gift purchase for parents, grandparents, and anyone else who wants to provide accessible spiritual content for the teen(s) in their lives.

Since the Luther Renaissance in the early twentieth-century, many scholars of the Reformation period have argued for a strong discontinuity between the early Protestant reformers and the following age of Protestant Scholasticism. Such a claim is exemplified by Radical Lutheranism, which purports that Luther's theology is incommensurate with that of the scholastic movements of the seventeenth century. In this work, Jordan Cooper defends the scholastic approach as a genuine outgrowth of Reformation theology and offers a critique of the theological system of Radical Lutheranism. He does this through a thorough exposition of the method used by Martin Chemnitz, Johann Gerhard, and other post-Reformation thinkers. He demonstrates that the foundational metaphysical assumptions of the Lutheran scholastics are both consistent with the Reformation and necessary for the church today. This book is the beginning of a series titled A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology.