This revised series offers the following features: a systematic approach to teaching reading and comprehension skills, encouraging skimming and scanning for gist and close reading for meaning and inference. More than half the passages have been up-dated and cover a large range of cross-curriculum interests and subject areas - from AIDS through to Zimbabwe's business success story. Listeningpassages are included throughout the course (these are printed in the back of student's book so students can check their own work and use the extra reading materials, too). "Conversation boxes" offer lively examples of appropriate register for both formal and informal communication and give students the opportunity to develop confidence in their everyday langauge usage. Writing skills are developed in serveral ways - creative writing, letter-writing, situational composition and summary (which begins with note-taking skills) and complemented by a comprehensive course in sentence construction, parts of speech and punctuation. Language teaching is functional as well as lively and communicative - recognizing English as a servicve subject anda life-skill.
The course also includes the basic rules of the langauge through informative language tables and revision of the basic principles of grammar. Valuable student-orientated projects for each term offer extension work as well as a practical opportunity for students to develop their skills of research and presentation and their ability to work as part of a team. The Student's Book is accompanied by a teacher's Resource Book which offers a wealth of information on new syllabus methodology as well as unit by unit ideas and advice for the teacher.
- ISBN10 9982181912
- ISBN13 9789982181914
- Publish Date 30 August 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Macmillan Education
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232
- Language English