Product Description
Jazz Chants are Carolyn Graham's snappy, upbeat chants and poems that use jazz rhythms to illustrate the natural stress and intonation patterns of conversational American English. Her first book, Jazz Chants, was published in 1978, followed by "Jazz Chants for Children one year later. For over 25 years, classes all over the world have enjoyed jazz chanting as a unique way for students to improve their speaking and listening comprehension skills while reinforcing the language structures of everyday situations. Grammarchants is a lively review of basic American-English grammatical structures. Each unit opens with a formal "grammarchant," which presents a basic aspect of grammar. This is followed by a series of related chants and songs that practice and reinforce the grammatical structure presented in the grammarchant. Each unit also contains special listening and speaking exercises. An Answer Key is included. A Cassette/CD features all of the songs and chants from the book.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)

Grammarchants Is a Perfect Suppliment for ESL Classes

I have used Grammarchants with the cassette in my Beginning and Intermediate Adult ESL classes for years. Students have the opportunity to practice pronunciation, increase speaking rates and listening comprehension, and practice or review various verb tenses. Furthermore, students become more aware of syllable stress.

The teacher who introduced me to Grammarchants recommended a three step process. First, students listen to a passage. Literacy and new Beginning Level students could do this step without the cassette. Then the class should do a quiet choral reading of the passage. Repeated playings may be needed. Finally, when the students seem confident, they should be able to read chorally at the the same rate as the tape.

Students also find the dictation execises and interviews to be productive and enjoyable.
July 11, 2001

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