Calling All Beginners [antikvár]

CALLING ALL BEGINNERS is now well-known as the BBC's elementary course for people who are studying English on their own, with a record or cassette-player as their only mechanical aid. As somé students of English have access to more sophisticated equipment (tape recorders and audioactive cassette recorders) and as CALLING ALL BEGINNERS is being used more and more by language schools many of which have language laboratories, the BBC has produced this new and greatly extended version of CALLING ALL BEGINNERS, for use with such equipment. The recordings provide material for at least half-an-hour's work based on each lesson in the course (apart from the first four lessons where the teaching is so elementary that the student is only invited to repeat simple sentences). In each lesson the student is first asked to listen to the recorded English conversation. Then the conversation is repeated with a pause after each speech of one of the characters so that the learner can repeat it. Finally, the conversation is heard once more, but this time the speeches which the learner repeated are replaced by a pause so that the learner can speak them, as part of the conversation. After each conversation there is a series of drills of key structures and expressions. Usually these begin with an example indicating the pattern to be followed. Most of them are three phase drills - which means that the learner first hears a prompt giving the word or phrase to be practised; then comes a pause for the learner's response, and finally the learner hears the correct response. The pauses are a little longer than an English person would need to make the response, but not much. At first the learner will probably find it difficult to respond quickly enough but he should practise the drill until he is able to do so without difficulty, and until he can reproduce accurately the pronunciation and intonation of the model speakers. Note that Lesson 5, Drill 4 is a telephone conversation. First the learner listens to the whole conversation, then he takes the part of the caller (Drill 5), and finally he hears the conversation once more, with pauses for him to repeat each sentence (Drill 6). After Lesson 22 the last drill in each lesson is made up of questions about the conversation in that lesson. In Lesson 28 the sentences of Drill 3 are the same as those of Drill 2 but