<DIV><i>First Discussion Starters</i> includes conversation activities that teachers and students have loved in the best-selling <i>Discussion</i> Starters and <i>More Discussion</i> <i>Starters</i>, this time for lower-level ESL/EFL students.<br><i>First Discussion Starters</i> contains:<br> *a variety of tasks and exercises based on real situations from all over the world<br> serious discussion topics such as censorship, prison conditions, and cloning<br> *topics that are lighter in nature such as lotteries, pets, and travel<br> *activities that require students to work together in pairs or small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic<br> *several kinds of oral fluency activities such as problem-solving tasks, court cases, "finish the story," "put the story together," and small group presentations<br> *links to related websites for each unit<br></div>