Synopses & Reviews
Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a new range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in using English. Each book in the series offers a variety of imaginative topics and activities which will genuinely engage students' interest and encourage them to share personal reactions and opinions - fluently. Speaking 4 (which is accompanied by a cassette) develops advanced learners' oral fluency by focusing on topics that are personally relevant to them. The activities enable students to draw on their own life experience, feelings and cultural knowledge and to develop their ability to express their ideas confidently and fluently. Speaking 4 *offers a large variety of different tasks, group projects and discussion ideas, based on stimuli such as pictures and recorded material *contains 20 units, each taking an unusual and imaginative slant, on familiar and unfamiliar topics *is flexible and therefore easy to integrate with a main course *includes a detailed map to enable teachers to choose suitable units or activities *contains tapescripts, an answer key and brief teaching notes.
Synopsis
Speaking 4 (which is accompanied by a cassette) develops advanced learners' oral fluency by focusing on topics that are personally relevant to them.
Synopsis
This title uses a variety of imaginative activites to develop oral fluency, encouraging students to draw on their own life experience.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Map of the book; Acknowledgements; 1. Secrets: Gossiping and keeping secrets; 2. And now, ladies and gentlemen: Making oral presentations and participating in discussion; 3. Stress: Stress in modern life aned in the language classroom; 4. Well brought up?: Politness and rudeness; 5. All in a day's work: Daily routines at work and at home; 6. Getting away from it all: Opting out of a conventional life style; 7. Remember, remember: Memory and memory failures; 8. My brilliant career?: Ambition, jobs and career counselling; 9. Magic moments: Magic and legends from the past of the present; 10. Threatening times: Dangers for individuals, countries, the planet; 11. Love, hope and charity: Charity appeals; 12. Buildings to live in: Good and bad features of public buildings; 13. Buildings to live in: Homes, present and future; 14. The benefit of experience: Creating information guides and cassettes; 15. Special cases?: Providing for different needs; 16. In sickness ...: Pain and disease; 17. And in health: Alternative methods of healing; 18. Children and adults: Growing up, bringing up children; 19. Fostering Sally: Caring for children in difficult situations; 20. Keeping in touch: Communicating and failing to communicate; Key; Tapescript; To the teacher.