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This title develops learners' ability to understand real-life, spoken English through a variety of authentic recordings.
This is part of the Skills for Fluency series and is intended to develop learners' oral fluency by focusing on topics that are personally relevant to them. The activities are designed to enable students to draw on their own life experiences, feelings and cultural knowledge.
Nine units per student book, each with eight lessons A broad range of lesson types focusing on key skills, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, speaking, and writing, all with 100% new content NEW listening and word skills lessons help develop confident communicators Exam skills trainer sections prepare students for typical school-leaving/Cambridge tasks, and provide them with the language, strategies, and exam skills they need to achieve success Extra speakingtask sections provide additional opportunities for speaking practice Grammar builder pages with each unit provide extra practice exercises for students who need additional support Grammar reference pages allow learners to check grammar rules Vocabulary builder with each unit allows students to learnand practice new vocabulary Culture Bank includes 9 ready-to-use culture lessons linked to the topic and language of the main units, providing extra reading and listening practice
Face the Issues is an exciting and highly successful approach to listening comprehension and discussion for intermediate and high-intermediate students. Each of the twelve units is based on an authentic radio broadcast taken from National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Students are presented with interesting and relevant content in unedited everyday speech including hesitations, redundancies, and various dialectical patterns.
Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The books are at four levels from pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on skills development courses. Each book in the Cambridge Skills for Fluency series: * promotes fluency by presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in creative and imaginative ways * genuinely engages students' interest and encourages them to share personal reactions and opinions fluently * focuses on a particular skill but the other skills are integrated in a way that reflects real-life use of language * contains 20 units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.
English Unlimited is a six-level (A1 to C1) goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. As well as clear teaching notes, the updated Upper Intermediate A and B Teacher's Pack (Teacher's Book with DVD-ROM) offers lots of extra ideas and activities to suit different classroom situations and teaching styles. The DVD-ROM provides a range of extra printable activities, a comprehensive testing and assessment program, extra literacy and handwriting activities for non-Roman alphabet users and clear mapping of the syllabus against the CEFR 'can do' statements. It also includes the videos from the Self-study Pack DVD-ROM for classroom use.
With 100% new content, the third edition of Oxford's best-selling secondary course offers the tried and trusted Solutions methodology alongside fresh and diverse material that will spark your students' interest and drive them to succeed.Oxford University Press's best-selling course for teenagers is now available in a third edition, providing new and exciting content that is delivered using the successful methodology of the previous editions.The third edition offers a brand new comprehensive listening syllabus as well as word skills lessons, allowing students to master key listening sub skills, expand their vocabulary, and become confident communicators. Solutions turns all students into active learners, by offering a rich variety of learning opportunities for a whole range of abilities through extension and revision activities in all components - giving everyone a sense of achievement whatever their level.
"The presentation and practice of vocabulary and grammar are of equal importance and there is a strong focus on listening and speaking with an emphasis on 'real world' language for social situations. The listening and reading material provides fresh new angles on universal topics and students are given numerous opportunities to practise new language through a wide variety of communicative activities, many of which are personalised. face2face is also fully compatible with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and gives students regular opportunities to evaluate their progress." - product description.
