This pack consists of the Student's Book and Workbook without answers, providing all the student's material in one place. The Student's Book fully prepares students to tackle each part of every exam paper. Grammar and vocabulary exercises train students to avoid common mistakes. The CD-ROM supports mixed ability focusing on students' own particular areas of difficulty. The Workbook consolidates and extends the language covered in the Student's Book and includes an Audio CD. Class Audio CDs, available separately, contain the recordings for the listening exercises in the Student's Book. A full practice test is available online for teachers to access.
1: Brief intro – present situation: more contact with other countries, more travel –
my view: essential In your English class, you have been talking about what
subjects should be compulsory at secondary school. Now your English teacher
has asked you to write an essay. Write an essay using all the notes and give
reasons for your point of view. Essay question All young people should study a foreign language as part of their education. Do you agree? Notes Write about: 1.
working life 2.
Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate the assessment process itself, rather than just assessment outcomes (i.e., ratings). One such approach is conversation analysis (or CA), a rigorous empirical methodology developed by sociologists, which employs inductive methods in order to discover and describe the recurrent, systematic properties of conversation, including sequential organization, turn-taking, repair, preference structure, and topic management. CA offers a systematic approach for analysing spoken interaction from a qualitative perspective, allowing one to make observations about a stretch of talk while at the same time interacting with it. This book provides language testers with a background in the conversation analytic framework and a fuller understanding of what is entailed in using conversation analysis in the context of oral language test validation.
Eighty-five Hebrew as a foreign language students in the U.S. were rated on
these 4 methods by 2 independent raters; her analyses detected the main
difference to be in the fourth test, where candidates reported information instead
of being interviewed; she concludes that 'speech style and topic are significant
factors influencing students' scores on oral proficiency' (p. 537). She suggests (
somewhat contrary to her later opinion (Shohamy 1988)) that the OPI is well
suited to testing ...
18-24, for concise description of the method of critical exploration). These authors
reaffirm that 'the fundamental feature of the critical exploration method requires
that the experimenter constantly formulate hypotheses about the children's
reactions from the cognitive point of view, and then devise ways of immediately
checking these suppositions in the experimental situation'. However, the dangers
of influencing the child do not lie merely in the experimenter's approach but can
also be ...
Including a Description of Its Geography, Natural History and Minerals, and an Analysis of Its Waters, with an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement
An illustrated account of a two-year surveying expedition to Salt Lake City, published in 1852, including positive comments on Mormonism.
Returning to the southern end of the valley, we again struck the Muddy, and
followed it up to where it forks, amid the hills forming the “ divide” from Ogden's
Hole. The eastern fork makes an impassable cafion, but we followed up the west
fork about four miles, whence we crossed the Wahsatch range, and descended
into a beautiful, level, circular valley, about a mile in diameter, hemmed in by an
amphitheatre of lofty and steep mountains. Several fine springs head in this
singular little ...
The Touchstone Workbook provides follow-up exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book, allowing for a thorough practice of new vocabulary, structures, and conversation strategies and providing extra reading and writing activities. A progress chart at the end of each unit helps students evaluate their progress and plan further study.
The Touchstone Workbook provides follow-up exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book, allowing for a thorough practice of new vocabulary, structures, and conversation strategies and providing extra reading and writing activities.
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Workbook, Level 4 provides practice of the language studied in the Student's Book. Activities can be used for homework or in class.
Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone Second Edition Workbook, Level 4 provides practice of the language studied in the Student's Book.
Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The new Touchstone video program is a compelling and humorous situational drama on the life of five friends and how they interact in real-life situations. The episodes are broken down into short acts, giving students a chance to better retain the language. Included in each episode are grammar, vocabulary, and conversation strategies from the corresponding Student's Book to review and extend learning beyond the text. It is available in VHS or DVD format.
Included in each episode are grammar, vocabulary, and conversation strategies from the corresponding Student's Book to review and extend learning beyond the text. It is available in VHS or DVD format.
Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.
The series introduces unique "conversation management" strategies, places special emphasis on teaching vocabulary and vocabulary-learning strategies, and offers exciting ideas for personalized, learner-centered interaction.
