Publication: Talk About Values: Conversation Skills for Intermediate Students

• Schoenberg, Irene E.

Talk About Values presents 12 high-interest topics that
stimulate conversation about cultural values.  Step by
step, students build their conversation skills and
vocabulary as they discuss issues such as honesty, money,
gift-giving, and choosing a husband or wife. 

Talk About Values uses a multi-faceted approach to
stimulate conversation.  Chapter topics include: You and
Your Neighbors; How Honest Are You?; What Men Look for in a
Wife/What Women Look for in a Husband; The Golden Years;
Borrowing and Lending; Red Faces; Dress for Success; Giving
the Right Gift; Sports; Pets; No Smoking Allowed; Money.

Each chapter includes: illustrations; short readings;
surveys of personal experience and opinions; role plays;
proverbs and jokes; crossword puzzles; and sentence
completions.