Samantha: A Soap Opera and Vocabulary Book for Students of English as a Second Language

By Meryl Robin Becker

Using a soap opera storyline approach, this text contains reading passages that hold the adult learner's interest and provide ESL learners with vocabulary and idiom practice. The stimulating and intriguing storyline offers continuing topics for discussion on social, moral, and cross-cultural issues such as love, marriage, dating customs, and gender roles in all societies. Chapters contain prereading and comprehension questions, as well as exercises that reinforce the vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. The book's chapters have been sealed but perforated to prevent students from reading ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472081780
• ISBN13: 9780472081783
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Samantha Book

I have to tell that Samantha is a good book to learn English. It has been hard for me to learn a lot of words, but when I read Samantha it was easier because it explains all the vocabulary in the book. Now, I'm reading Samantha, the sequel and I want to know the end of the story right now! but I know I have to wait and learn more. I recommend this book and I'd like it if it had a CD to hear the story.