Active Context English 2. [antikvár]

Introduction to the Teachers' Notes General Description of the Course This is a course for adolescent and aduit learners of English. The first three books constitute the basic course and should be completed in approximately 300 hours of classroom teaching. Each book contains sufficient material for an ordinary year's work, assuming three or four fifty-minute classes a week. The course is sufficiently flexible however to allow for a slower or faster pace. Grading of Grammatical The authors believe in the descriptive rather than the prePatterns scriptive approach to grammar, and consider that attempting to explain the 'rules of grammar' does not help the students in a basic course and may often be harmful as weil as time-consuming. Since students must, however, be able to produce grammatically acceptable sentences, the grammatical patterns of the language are presented and practised in a carefully graded order. The new patterns to be taught in each lesson are clearly set out at the end of the conversation and no other patterns not previously taught occur in the text. Each new pattern is presented in context and practised, first orally, and then in writing, until it can be used with reasonable fluency and accuracy by the students. It will still require further practice in a variety of contexts before it is completely mastered. Language Learning a Cumulative Process: Progressive Use of Material Learnt Since language learning is a cumulative process, new patterns learnt must be practised in combination with other patterns already mastered. Exercises are provided in each lesson and further suggestions are given in the teachers' notes to help teachers to keep this process active. Great care is taken to ensure that the number of patterns partially mastered at any period in the course is kept to a minimum.