Look Ahead - Teacher's Book 1 [antikvár]

Introduction The course Why is the Look Ahead course special? The Longman look A/iead classroom materials have been produced as a result of a unique collaboration between BBC English, the British Council, the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) and Longman ELT, with the cooperation ofthe Council of Europe. SYLLABUS The core syllabus for the Look Ahead corpus is based on the Council of Europe's revised and extended Waystage and Threshold specifications (Council of Europe Press,1991), the most comprehensive statement of language learning objectives yet available for the 1990s and the new millenium. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAMINATIONS New tests at Waystage level (the Key English Test -KET) and Threshold level (the revised Preliminary English Test - PET) have been devised by UCLES based on these latest specifications. BROADCAST TELEVISION SERIES BBC English has used the same Waystage and Threshold specifications to produce a series of sixty television programmes for English language learners. These programmes are accompanied by self-study materials, marketed directly to learners at home by the BBC. LONGMAN CLASSROOM COURSE Longman English Language Teaching has produced a four-level classroom course, which takes as its core the Waystage and Threshold specifications. Extracts from the BBC television programmes have been selected according to their appropriacy for classroom use and are available on an optional video cassette which accompanies the Longman classroom materials. These Longman materials form the complete Look Ahead course for the classroom. What levels does the Longman classroom course cover? The course comprises four levels: Levell: Beginner/Elementary Level 2: Post-elementary/Pre-intermediate Level 3: Intermediate Level 4: Upper-intermediate Look Ahead Level 1 is for students with little or no knowledge of English. Look Ahead Level 2 takes students beyond the Council of Europe Waystage level. Look Ahead Levels 3 and 4 take students up to and comfortably beyond the Council of Europe Threshold level. What are the components of the Longman classroom course? At each level, the course consists of: - a Students' Book, - a Workbook, - a Teacher's Book, - a set of classroom audio cassettes (Class Cassettes), - a Workbook audio cassette (Workbook Cassette), - an optional set of two video cassettes. Underlying principles of the Longman classroom course The writing ofthe Look Ahead classroom course has been influenced by the following beliefs about English language learning: • Learners are inteUigent individuals, who are already proficient in at least one language. • Learners want to know what they are learning and why. They also need this information in order to become more independent as learners as they progress. • Learners need to develop at the same time a knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, functional language and communicative skills. Attention to the systems ofthe language is crucial, but the development of fluency and contextual