Busby, Brian John <br/><br/>
Contemporary Canada :  Authentic Readings for ESL Students / 
 Authentic readings for ESL students  Reading for ESL students 
Brian John Busby and Patricia Brock. 
 - Scarborough, ON :  Prentice-Hall Canada,  1997. 
 - viii, 129 p. :  ill., map.   24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes a glossary, reading activity, as well as discussion and writing activities. 
<br/><br/>"A companion piece to the popular Classics Canada series, this reading and listening text by Brian John Busby and Patricia Brock joins Prentice Hall Canada's collection of Canadian literature for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. High-interest authentic texts at an intermediate to advanced level feature exciting young Canadian authors who have already made a significant impact on the current literary scene. Selections include short stories, poems, essays, a one-act play, and an excerpt from a diary [...]. Features:<br/>  literary quality - the selections provide reading pleasure and interest<br/>  relevance - contemporary Canadian content echoes students' own life experience<br/>  student appeal - the writers are from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds and are equally divided by gender<br/>  Canadian background - writers come from across Canada<br/>  language learning activities - foster reading comprehension, discussion, and writing skills<br/>  helpful pedagogy - key words and expressions are defined in context." (Book Cover) CONTENTS:  Acknowledgments Preface 1. Three Hearts /   Deborah Joy Corey 2. Poems About Love /   To Pablo  To Say, "I Love You"  April in Paris  George Elliot 3. Runaway (March 22-28, 1986) /   Evelyn Lau 4. Poems About Identity /   Thinking of Father on this Day<br/>  Taste of Hatred<br/>  Between Sides  George Scofield 5. You Can't Be Too Strong /   Michelle Alfano 6. The Last Moon /   Eufemia Fatetti 7. Voices Over Water /   Catherine Bush 8. Poems About People and Places /   To Our Eyes the Blind Man  English Cemetery, Gaspésie  Inukshuk  Steven Heighton  9. My Dad /   In the Face of Death, Courage  Robert Edison Sandiforth 10. Poems From Western Canada /   Frogs in the Rain Barrel  Chinese Oldtimer  Night in Prospector's Valley  Sally Ito 11. Going to the Moon /   Nino Ricci Map of Canada 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0137273711 0137351283 I.M. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Readers--Canadian literature.<br/>Canadian literature--20th century.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.