New Headway - Upper-Intermediate - Teacher's Book

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New Headway English Course takes the successful Headway series into an exciting new era. It introduces new features to challenge aduit and young aduit students and ensure that learning English is interesting and motivating. The course combines the best of traditional methods with more recent approaches, to help students use English both accurately and fluently. Learners at the upper-intermediate level require a different approach. It is no longer appropriate to examine language items in isolation. In New Headway Upper-lntermediate, grammatical areas are treated in greater depth so that students begin to perceive the systems that underlie the language. This new upper-intermediate course provides around 120 hours of language learning. It follows on from New Headway Intermediate, and together with Headway Elementary, Headway Pre-lntermediate, and Headway Advanced, provides a fully comprehensive language teaching series. Key features • New, universal topics selected from a wide variety... Tovább

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New Headway English Course takes the successful Headway series into an exciting new era. It introduces new features to challenge aduit and young aduit students and ensure that learning English is interesting and motivating. The course combines the best of traditional methods with more recent approaches, to help students use English both accurately and fluently. Learners at the upper-intermediate level require a different approach. It is no longer appropriate to examine language items in isolation. In New Headway Upper-lntermediate, grammatical areas are treated in greater depth so that students begin to perceive the systems that underlie the language. This new upper-intermediate course provides around 120 hours of language learning. It follows on from New Headway Intermediate, and together with Headway Elementary, Headway Pre-lntermediate, and Headway Advanced, provides a fully comprehensive language teaching series. Key features • New, universal topics selected from a wide variety of sources, including authentic listening texts. • In-depth treatment of grammar Each unit starts with a Test your grammar section, followed by Language in context, where students work out rules through Grammar questions. The Practice section provides a choice of wide-ranging exercises and the Grammar Reference gives detailed rules of form and use. • The grammar of spoken English is examined, with work on areas such as being polite, linking and commenting adverbs, exaggeration and understatement, and lexis in discourse. • Thorough skills syllabus All four skills are developed systematically and integrated through related tasks. • Well-defined lexical syllabus with work on systems such as collocation, binomials, homonyms and compounds. • Pronunciation practice is integrated at appropriate points throughout the units. • Everyday English is practised in the Postscript section This Teacher's Book describes the rationale for the methodology of the course and provides extensive guidance on using the material effectively. It alsó provides extra photocopiable materials including Stop and Check sections and tests. In addition to the Student's Book and Teacher's Book, there is a Workbook with an optional Workbook Cassette, and two Class Cassettes. This level is supplemented by Hei f/way Upper-lntermediate Videó and New Headway Upper-lntermediate Pronunciation. Liz and John Soars have many years of experience as teachers and teacher trainers. Both have worked at International House, London, and Liz was one of the chief examiners of the Cambridge/RSA Dip. TEFL. Vissza