SPEAKING AND LISTENING is being published to coincide with the Government's relaunch of its Speaking and Listening guidelines. Next year will see a renewed focus on this important subject and teachers will be looking for materials to help them deliver the objectives. SPEAKING AND LISTENING provides activities that take the children's curriculum knowledge and encourages purposeful talk through discussion, presentations, group decisions and drama. Each book in the series provides: activities that cover group discussion, listening, presentationsand drama-the four areas that the government has highlighted over 30 speaking and listening lessons that use subject matter from English, Science, Geography and History curricula photocopiable pages key skills and techniques described assessment advice SPEAKING AND LISTENING AGES 9-11 provides speaking and listening activities based on: The 1960s Traffic in the high street Coastal holidays Seeds Ancient Greece Exploration and discovery Water Virus and bacteria The Adventures of Isabel, by Ogden Nash