TY  - BOOK
AU  - Busby,Brian John
AU  - Brock,Patricia
ED  - Dawson College
TI  - Contemporary Canada: Authentic Readings for ESL Students 
SN  - 0137273711
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Scarborough, ON
PB  - Prentice-Hall Canada
KW  - Readers
KW  - Canadian literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - English language
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
N1  - Includes a glossary, reading activity, as well as discussion and writing activities; "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
; literary quality - the selections provide reading pleasure and interest
; relevance - contemporary Canadian content echoes students' own life experience
; student appeal - the writers are from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds and are equally divided by gender
; Canadian background - writers come from across Canada
; language learning activities - foster reading comprehension, discussion, and writing skills
; 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 /; George Elliot; To Pablo; To Say, "I Love You"; April in Paris; 3. Runaway (March 22-28, 1986) /; Evelyn Lau; 4. Poems About Identity /; George Scofield; Thinking of Father on this Day
; Taste of Hatred
; Between Sides; 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 /; Steven Heighton; To Our Eyes the Blind Man; English Cemetery, Gaspésie; Inukshuk; 9. My Dad /; Robert Edison Sandiforth; In the Face of Death, Courage; 10. Poems From Western Canada /; Sally Ito; Frogs in the Rain Barrel; Chinese Oldtimer; Night in Prospector's Valley; 11. Going to the Moon /; Nino Ricci; Map of Canada
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