John, a young man from the United States decides to go to Mexico to learn Spanish and teach English. Along the way, he will get to know Ixtapan de la Sal, a city in Mexico State, its traditional Independence Celebrations, the Díaz Family, and the breath-taking hills and mountains in the area. You will travel with him and improve your English through anticipation guides, and comprehension and extension activities. Go ahead, check it out. Your adventure awaits. (Contact me: maestrochrislemon@gmail.com) Features: fifteen chapters, 400+ monolingual definitions, anticipation guides with linguistic explanations, most of which are bilingual, comprehension questions, post-reading activities, character guide, pronunciation guide, and more than 45 photos related to the text. These materials have been designed for English students with two to three years of previous preparation or an intermediate level of English usage, though the activities and the story may be adapted as seen fit for English students of a lower or higher ability level. This work was designed for native Spanish speakers but can be used with ESL or EFL students of any native language or L1.
About the Author: My name is Chris Lemon, and I was born in 1989 in Toledo, OH with my twin brother Matt. We lived our childhood and adolescence in Bowling Green, OH, attending elementary and junior high school at St. Aloysius, high school at St. John's Jesuit High School and higher education at the University of Dayton (OH). At the university I earned degrees in Foreign Language Education and Spanish. I student-taught first part-time at Incarnation Elementary and then full-time at Chaminade-Julienne High School, working with almost all levels of junior high and high school students. After graduation, I began to work in the State of Mexico as an English Teaching Assistant part-time in the Ixtapan de la Sal Normal School, Salvador C. Vergara Cruz Junior High School (Ixtapan de la Sal) and Alfredo del Mazo Elementary School (Villa Guerrero) while writing this novel, travelling extensively and pursuing other hobbies such as running and playing the banjo (not at the same time). For more information, you can send me an e-mail (maestrochrislemon@gmail.com), visit my website (https: //sites.google.com/site/misterchrislemon/), or search for me directly. You are most likely to find me in the Estado de México or Ohio. Good luck.