Publication: The Chicken Smells Good: An ESL Reader

• Pickett, William

LCCN: 83-3420

The Chicken Smells Good: An ESL Reader contains 22
dialogues and 16 mini stories for adult students of English
as a Second Language.  Real people in real situations are
the basis of these modern stories depicting a wide variety
of moods, settings, and characters.  They encourage
responses from students as they entertain, inform and touch
emotions.     Ordinary events of daily living as well as
conflict and struggle, problems and progress give these
dialogies and min stories an immediacy students can
identify with.  Includes index.

Among its many special features, the book:
* reinforces over 400 high frequency words and idioms with
exercises after each dialogue and story;
* stimulates student expression with discussion questions;
* improves pronunciation, intonation, and feel for
conversational English by role-playing of dialogues;
* increases listening comprehension and ability to relate
spoken and written English through dictation exercises
following the dialogues.