Listening 1 develops students ability to understand real-life spoken English through recordings of spontaneous, natural speech, which have been carefully selected and edited for pre-intermediate learners. The activities are designed to encourage students to draw on their own natural listening strategies and to apply them effectively in the context of language learning.
La 4e de couv. indique : "Business benchmark second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for BULATS. A pacy, topic-based course with comprehensive coverage of language and skills for business, it motivates and engages both professionals and students preparing for working life."
The Just Skills series provides a flexible set of teaching materials for use individually or in any combination to form an integrated course. The Just Skills series, available at four levels, comprises Grammar, Vocabulary, Listening & Speaking, and Reading & Writing books. The corpus of the Just Right course has been used to create this set of skills books. The consistent methodological approach used throughout each book allows for them to be used easily together. These books are ideal for: skills lessons in the classroom self-study specialised skills-focused courses one-to-one lessons supplementing other course books
Get ready for IELTS listening has been written for learners with a band score of 3 or 4 who want to achieve a higher score. Using this book will help you improve your pre - intermediate listening skills for the IELTS Academic listening test.
This outstanding three-title series prepares college-bound ESL students to understand academic lectures in English. Each text equips students for the challenges of college and university study by helping them listen selectively, take notes, review key ideas, retain information, and apply what they have learned. Twelve recorded lectures in each level are performed in lively and natural styles to provide a motivating introduction to academic listening. Lectures cover a wide range of thought-provoking contemporary topics. Controlled, realistic note-taking practice, ample pre-listening activities, vocabulary preview, post-lecture tests, and a wealth of illustrations also aid student understanding. Audiocassettes offer full lectures, presented both divided into parts and in their entirety. Each book offers the following features: -- Topic preview -- Vocabulary preview -- Identifying main ideas and supporting details -- Note-taking skills -- Review and post-listening tests -- Application of ideas through post-listening activities
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 twenty units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.
A modern, speaking-centred general English course that helps students use language naturally. Students typically have gaps in their language knowledge and performance which inhibit their progress. The natural English syllabus is based on research into these language gaps and the course brings together current ideas in a stylish, principled, and easy-to-teach set of materials. Key Features natural English is a syllabus strand which enables students to integrate frequent, natural language into their language framework. Students learn to use real language naturally, through thinking and rehearsal time, confidence-building practice, and task-centred speaking. The listening syllabus teaches students how to listen. A slot-in listening booklet features the tapescripts plus decoding and pronunciation exercises. Teacher's Book lesson plans, a product of the authors' teacher training expertise, talk teachers through the course materials. Teacher's Book chapters cover teaching principles, techniques, and ideas, plus a selected bibliography. Humour engages and motivates through cartoons, and the listening and reading material. Reading and Writing Skills Resource Book Photocopiable resource for teachers Use with natural English Student's Book or on its own Based on authentic texts and tasks Develops 'real life' reading and writing skills
