Respected throughout the world, the highly successful Focus series combines comprehensive exam skills training and enjoyable texts with excellent reference and practice materials.
'First Certificate Star Cassettes' contain the material for the listening tasks, including short and long texts to help the student prepare for the first certificate listening paper.
Complete First Certificate is a new course for the 2008 revised FCE exam. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus and providing a complete FCE exam paper specially prepared for publication by Cambridge ESOL, it is the most authentic exam preparation course available. Complete First Certificate combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with first-hand knowledge of the challenges students face. There are exercises to help students avoid repeating the typical mistakes that real FCE candidates make, as revealed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus. This topic-based course covers every part of the FCE exam in detail, ensuring that students are fully equipped to tackle each part of every paper. In addition, the accompanying free CD-ROM enables students to focus on their own particular areas of difficulty and work at their own pace. There is a Student's Book with answers and CD-ROM edition so students can study on their own or in class. The Teacher's Book offers plenty of time-saving consolidation and extension material, including photocopiable resources such as tests and activities.
This book is for you if you've never taught Cambridge First Certificate before, you want to know the most efficient techniques for getting your students through the exam, even if you've taught it before or you want to be able to advertise your services as an expert in First Certificate. The best way to learn to teach Cambridge First Certificate, is to take students through an entire course. Most schools I've worked at don't offer much in the way of additional training. You're just expected to get on with it. When I taught First, Advanced and PET, I was bumbling along with the books just trying to stay one answer further ahead than the students. Even if you're experienced at teaching general English, you can end up feeling like you've just stepped off the TEFL course. Learning along the way means you won't always be able to see around every little corner. With this book, you'll have everything you need to teach the exam the way your students deserve.
Complete First Certificate for Spanish Speakers offers the most authentic preparation available for the Cambridge ESOL exam. Complete First Certificate is a course for the 2008 revised FCE exam. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus and providing a complete FCE exam paper specially prepared for publication by Cambridge ESOL, it is the most authentic exam preparation course available. This English for Spanish Speakers edition provides specific help for Spanish-speaking candidates. The Teacher's Book contains full teacher's notes with extra teaching ideas, photocopiable material including class activities and progress tests, recording scripts and word lists. The English for Spanish Speakers edition provides specific help on how to exploit the speaking and pronunciation activities designed specially for Spanish-speaking students.
The Teacher's Book is accompanied by a DVD-ROM with tests in both PDF and editable Word format, along with a series of teacher training videos. There is also additional photocopiable material in the Teacher's Book, with a focus on material for the Speaking test.
Up-to-date texts and visually dynamic magazine look. Combines a strong focus on grammar, vocabulary-building, and writing with a teen-friendly approach that is highly motivating. Lots of grammar practice on the Grammar Zoom pages, Language in Use, Writing and in the Workbook. Wordpower and Vocabulary sections reinforce vocabulary items. Writing task supported by task analysis, sample answers, notes and useful phrases. Gradually builds students' confidence in doing exam tasks. Workbook with Student's Audio CD. Interleaved Teacher's Book for easy lesson planning plus Unit tests and Progress Tests. Countdown to First Certificate is written by a first-class writing team: Kathy Gude, Michael Duckworth and Jenny Quintana, the authors of many successful exam courses.
Designed for students preparing for the Cambridge exams, each book in this series offers both students and teachers comprehensive support, including revision sections, mini dictionaries and appendices in the students' books, and model answers, photocopiable tests and marking schemes in the teacher's books. The books can be used either as free-standing supplementary material, or as a complete exam preparation series. They are designed to develop the essential language skills and sub-skills students need for each exam paper; they also offer specific training and guidance for each part of the exams, with an abundance of practice based on realistic test tasks.