INTRODUCTION OF ENGLISH

 

    Within each theme there are four main sections, eachdealing with a discrete skill: listening, speaking,reading or writing. A number of related topics areexplored within each theme. For example, in Theme 1the following areas are explored:Listening: welcome talks for students starting at an English-medium universitySpeaking: systems of education and qualities ofgood teachersReading: living and working at universityWriting: completing an application form andwriting a Personal StatementThe focus in each section is ononespecific skill.

    

TheMethodology notes in this Teacher’s Book stress thediscrete skills focus and caution against spending toomuch time on, for example, speaking in a listeningsection. This is not because the writers dislike integratedskills. Indeed, each theme ends with a section calledPortfolio, which provides detailed guidance onintegrated skills activities following the completion of aparticular theme. The insistence on the target skill isbecause the writers believe that both the teacher andthe students should focus on improvement in a specificskill in a particular lesson, rather than moving constantlybetween different skills. However, the key word here isfocus. More than one skill will, of course, be involved inany particular lesson. For example, in listening lessonsthere is almost always a speaking output, and in writinglessons there is almost always a reading input.The commonality of theme across the four skillsections means that, by the end of a theme, studentshave a much deeper knowledge of both theinformation and vocabulary that it comprises than is normally achieved in ELT course books.

   The lessonsEach skill section contains two or four main lessons,and each lesson has a clear focus and purpose.Additional pages Every theme contains three additional pages:Every day EnglishThis page is in the speaking section and builds skills insurvival language and social English. In Theme 1, forexample, this page covers Asking about words andphrasesand in Theme 2, Asking for informationin auniversity or college setting. See the Methodologysection for more guidance.Knowledge quiz or Vocabulary quizThis page is in the reading section and tests studentson their acquisition of common core knowledge andthematic vocabulary from the theme. In Theme 1, for example, this page ask students to rememberinformation about Education, including parts of auniversity campus, social customs in the UK and types of school. See the Methodologysection formore guidance.

 

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