Editorial: OXFORD
ISBN: 0-19-437325-8
Sinopsis: Intermediate. For Adults. Natural English is a modern course that makes an emphasis on how to use real language providing thinking and rehearsal time, confidence-building practice, and task-centred speaking. It is a syllabus strand which enables students to integrate frequent, natural language into their language framework. There is a special focus on learning how to listen. The listening booklet in the back pocket includes extra listening and pronunciation exercises and all the tapescripts. Students at intermediate level and above have gaps in their language knowledge and performance which inhibit their progress. The natural English syllabus is based on research into these language gaps and the course brings together current ideas in a stylish, principled, and easy-to-teach set of materials. Humour engages and motivates through cartoons, jokes, and the listening and reading material. The Student's Book contains 12 topic-based units with cartoons and illustrated jokes at the start of each unit . It also provides 'Wordbooster' vocabulary development activities and a 'test yourself' section at the end of each unit . The book includes a language reference section with more detailed explanations of the key grammar and lexical grammar, and a bank of exercises for further practice and consolidation. There is a Listening Booklet included with the Student's Book with complete tapescripts of the recorded material, additional activities based around the main listening text in each unit, and pronunciation activities and a phonemic symbols chart.
