Flying colours 1. - Teacher's Book [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONCourse components and organisationFlying Colours is a classroom-based course which will take adult and young adult beginners to intermediate level in three stages. The course components at each stage are:Students' Book Workbook Teacher's Book Class cassettes Language Study cassettesIn addition the video Prime Time and the Video Activity Book can be used to supplement language work and to provide further cultural background.The Students' Book is divided into six units. Each unit contains:five lessons; these are thematically based and provide the starting point for language and skills work as well as having informative and interesting content.one Review lesson; this provides further practice and revision of the language presented in the preceding lessons. A special feature is the activity which encourages students to write to the Language Doctor (ie you, the teacher) with any queries they have about the language they have recently been studying.a Language Study section for each teaching lesson. The Structures to Learn provide a detailed breakdown of both the form and the use of the principal language points outlined in the corresponding lesson. The Words to Remember are the most important lexical items (with their phonetic transcriptions) introduced in the lesson. The Practice Exercises give further tape-based practice of the language items. Models of the Structures to Learn and Words to Remember are found on the cassettes, Language Study: Structures and Words.At the back of the book there is:a pronunciation guide; this lists the symbols used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and gives examples of words which incorporate each sound.a list of irregular verbs; this contains all the verbs in the Students' Book which are irregular in their simple past form.material for Communication Activities; this has cross-references to the lesson pages and sets up the tasks for students working individually, in pairs, or in groups, for information gap activities.The Workbook is also divided into six units, and contains exercises designed to reinforce and extend the language items covered in the Students' Book. It includes grammar work which can be checked in the Language Study section of the Students' Book, phonetic-based exercises which encourage students to focus on spoken language, and learner-training tasks which highlight the strategies promoted in the Students' Book.The Teacher's Book contains:a brief presentation of methodological principles.detailed teaching notes for each lesson which include a language summary, suggestions for warm-up activities and homework, the tapescripts of all the recorded material and indications as to the points in a lesson where the Workbook exercises may be done.a forty minute written test and suggestions for oral testing for each unit. The Answer key is also included.Answers to the Workbook exercises.the script and teaching notes to accompany the Video Prime Time.Please note: Exceptionally the tests and the Workbook key are designed to be photocopied. It is not necessary to request permission from the publishers.The two Class cassettes contain the listening material for the Students' Book lessons. This consists of presentation of lexical items, dialogues - at natural speed - for the presentation of functional language in context, models of spoken language with pauses for repetition and semi-authentic and authentic listening texts with graded tasks which are designed to encourage students' confidence in their ability to understand spoken language.The Language Study cassettes contain:Structures to Learn and Words to Remember (2 cassettes); these recordings of the material that appears in the Language Study section at the end of each unit enable students to perfect their pronunciation outside the classroom.Practice Exercises (2 cassettes); these are recorded exercises which again offer students a possible self-access approach to grammar consolidation, pronunciation work and development of the listening skill.Course DesignFlying Colours is designed to help learners acquire a broad language competence which will allow them to communicate simply but effectively in a variety of professional and social situations where English is used as an international language. All the language items in the course are presented in an order which meets the most urgent requirements of survival English. The syllabuses covered include functions, notions, structures, topics, lexis, skills, phonology and learner training. In addition, great care has been taken to include topics and material of international interest to the adult learner. Motivation is an important factor in effective learning and the course design attempts to ensure breadth of coverage and to engage the learners' interest both in the subject matter and in the learning process.MethodologyThe Teacher's Book includes suggestions and notes on methodology for each lesson, but it is certain that every teacher will want to use the material in a way that suits his or her students and style of teaching. It may nevertheless be useful to draw attention to a number of methodological principles which underlie the course.