First Discussion Starters includes conversation activities that teachers and students have loved in the best-selling Discussion Starters and More DiscussionStarters, this time for lower-level ESL/EFL students.

First Discussion Starters contains:

a variety of tasks and exercises based on real situations from all over the world
serious discussion topics such as censorship, prison conditions, and cloning
topics that are lighter in nature such as lotteries, pets, and travel
activities that require students to work together in pairs or small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic
several kinds of oral fluency activities such as problem-solving tasks, court cases, "finish the story," "put the story together," and small group presentations
links to related websites for each unit