Pearls of Wisdom
Pearls of Wisdom

Pearls of Wisdom

The Integrated Language Skills Workbook

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY

80 Pages, 8.5 x 11

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $17.50 (US $17.50) (CA $22.95)

Publication Date: July 2001

ISBN 9780866471367

Price: $17.50
 
 

Overview

This is integrated-skills workbook companion to Pearls of Wisdom maximizes language learning and vocabulary development. It includes pre-listening activities and vocabulary exercises, as well as exercises to develop students' summarizing, speaking, and writing skills.

Author Biography

Dr. Raouf Mama is a Distinguished Professor of English and Storytelling, a bestselling author and a storyteller of international renown, the only one in the world today who tells in English, French, Yoruba and Fon folktales from his native Benin and from other parts of the world. His books include Pearls of Wisdom, Why Goats Smell Bad, Tropical Tales, Why Monkeys Live In Trees, winner of the National Multicultural Children's Award in the USA in 2008, Fortune's Favored Child, and It Was A Beautiful Day And Other Personal Quiet Miracle Stories. The French version of Why Goats Smell Bad, entitled Pourquoi Le Bouc Sent Mauvais, is required reading in Benin's Secondary School System. He is a CSU Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT, USA.