Flax-Golden Tales provides a delightful alternative to traditional English-teaching texts. The selection of reading materials and the instructional activities, commentaries, short essays, audio cassettes, and appendixes which accompany them.
Between the two of them, Drs. Lohani and Nissani have published in, studied, and taught English and genetics, media studies and astronomy, psychology and philosophy, linguistics and mathematics, American literature and history, ecology and history of science, science education and interdisciplinary studies. They thus bring unusually diverse backgrounds to language instruction. In particular, Flax Golden Tales owes much to their experiences of teaching freshman composition, English as a foreign language and literature.
Unit 1: Invitation
Unit 2: Ancient Tales
- Yudhisthira’s Wishdom (India, adapted by Rao)
- The Brave Little Parrot (Nepal, adapted by Martin)
- If Not Higher (Poland, adapted by Peretz)
Unit 3: Education
- Why Go to University? (Nissani)
- Don’t Cut Down the Trees, Brother Woodcutter (Sama)
- Surely You Are Joking, Mr. feynman (Feynman and Leighton)
- A 1996 Commencement Speech (Rushdie)
Unit 4: Actions and Consequences
Unit 5: Television
Unit 6: Crosscultural Bridges
Unit 7: Cultural Anthropology
Unit 8: The Human Condition
Unit 9: Natural Science
Unit 10: Humor and Satire
Unit 11: Critical and Creative Thinking
- The Stub Book (de Alarcon)
- Mr. Know-All (Maugham)
- Keeping Errors at Bay (Russell)
- What is Intelligence, Anyway? (Asimov)
Unit 12: Love
Unit 13: Life and Death
- The Gtreat Answer (Oursler)
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost)
- A Tale (Koirala)
- Ethics (Pastan)
- Where the Mind is Without Fear (Tagore)
- New Year (Parijat)
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