What makes a conversation-friendly English, ESL or EFL classroom?

  “There is a role and function for beauty in our time.” – Tadao Ando (1941–), Japanese architect Introducing Teacher Edition Tuesday, a new weekly series based on ten teaching tips from the recently released Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition! What makes a conversation-friendly English, ESL or EFL classroom? Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. Creating a...

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Compelling Conversations – Japan is released!

October 22, 2015 Chimayo Press Releases New Authentically Communicative, Fluency-focused, EFL Conversation Textbook For Japanese English Language Learners Chimayo Press, an LA-based educational publisher, proudly introduces their latest title Compelling Conversations – Japan: Questions and Quotations for High-Intermediate Japanese English Language Learners. The English as a Foreign Language...

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Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition comes out!

October 22, 2015   CHIMAYO PRESS RELEASES ENGLISH TEACHER EDITION FOR COMPELLING AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS, HOPES TO SPARK MORE LIVELY ESL CLASSES Chimayo Press, an LA-based educational publisher, releases Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition. This new title assists educators of English as a Second Language (ESL) working with intermediate students at the American high school and...

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Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition

Compelling American Conversations – Teacher Edition is geared toward educators working with intermediate students – those learning English as a second language – at the American high school and adult education levels. Designed to complement and expand upon the original material, Compelling American Conversations, this guide to each of the original fifteen thematic chapters also includes new...

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Bronco Billy

Based on the 1980 motion picture directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, Bronco Billy is an ace sharpshooter and head of Bronco Billy’s Wild West Show, a down-at-the-heel traveling circus. Life’s been hard for Billy and his ragtag troupe. But their luck might change – in the unlikely person of a highfalutin society dame. One reviewer recently wrote: “This slim book celebrates American...

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Star Boy

Part fable, part historical novel, two young Jewish brothers are trapped in Nazi Germany. With their personal superhero – Star Boy – on their side, they face every struggle to evade the Hitler Youth and Nazi Germany’s death camps. Click here to view a sample chapter. For details and options for purchasing book please click here. Publication Date: March 2011 Author: Dennis...

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