1 v. (various pagings) : 22 cm Includes bibliographical references TPR: a personal story -- The teaching machine -- Power of guessing: an explanation -- One trial learning -- The crucial test: a cause-effect theory of learning -- The laboratory -- Maybe a motion picture is the answer -- What's in a name? -- The search for the secret behind TPR -- The "Thick tongue" phenomenon Making documentary films -- The film in Japaness -- The film in German -- The children's film in Spanish and French -- The problem -- An instructional strategy that produces high motivation -- The evidence -- Why it works -- Most often asked questions -- Classroom lessons -- How to orient and motivate the students -- How to cope with the fast-moving pace -- How to increase your sense of timing -- Learning numbers -- Preparation to visit a department store -- Asking questions of students -- Slide presentation of a clothing store -- Review of the clothing store experience -- Review of opposites -- Reading a second story -- More with the past tense -- Review of the past tense -- Telling time through commands -- Consumer behavior: buyer-seller transactions More on places -- More on the past form of the verb "to be" with new verbs -- Slides of a supermarket -- Review of the verb "to be" -- More restaurant role playing -- Role playing restaurant situations -- Object descriptions -- Review of family vocabulary -- Review of the future tense -- Verb review -- Continuation of "there is" -- Reading review of "there is" -- Acting out what was read