Words to Write By: Developing Writing Skills Through Quotations is a composition text for intermediate to advanced students of English. Each lesson guides the composition student through a series of activities that practice reading, listening, speaking and writing skills in stimulating and interesting contexts.

 

This textbook has been specially to challenge the creative writing skills of Japanese students through these inspiring themes:

 

-Happiness -Fear -Goals -Friendship -Patriotism -Anger -Beauty -Courtesy -Difficulty -Gossip -Honesty -Laughter -Lying -Hope -Love and Hate

 

Each of the 15 lessons in this textbook contains:

 

-a fun and provocative warm-up activity

-a selected quotation: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."

-a main reading with listening exercises on tape

-a focus on key vocabulary

-mini-dialogues

-a dictation to test listening skills via cassette tape

-partial sentences for students to complete in their own words

-a journal page for students to write down their own thoughts or experiences