Starting Skills in English Reading and Writing Part A Teacher's Book

Starting Skills in English is specially designed for false beginners and remedial learners. It is divided into two parts, A and B. Students can enter the course at A or B level. Each part provides at least 150 hours' tuition. The whole course, therefore, provides at least 300 hours' tuition.

There are three books in each part: Listening and Speaking, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar. It is assumed that most users of the course will teach the books in this order, although it is not essential. The majority of the material in the third book, Vocabulary and Grammar, could be set as self-study.

Starting Skills in English Reading and Writing: In Part A students learn how to read and write 200 key words in isolation and context from the following knowledge areas:

• Education
• Daily Life
• Work and Business
• Science and Nature
• The Physical World
• Culture and Civilization
• Technology
• Art and Literature
• Sports and Leisure
• Nutrition and Health

Students will also learn to:

• find examples;
• identify key parts of speech;
• identify pronoun referents;
• identify topic changes;
• interpret figures;
• join sentences with and;
• make irregular plurals;
• make simple noun phrases;
• mark text while reading;
• prepare to read;
• read encyclopedia entries;
• read for an established need;
• recognise job suffixes: er, or, ist, ant;
• recognise past forms;
• recognise vowels and consonants;
• scan for capital letters, question marks and full stops;
• scan for numbers;
• scan for specific phrases;
• scan for proper nouns;
• understand captions;
• use articles;
• use capital letters and full stops;
• use countable and uncountable nouns;
• use s for plural or 3rd person singular;
• use some key spelling rules;
• use There is/are vs It is/They are;
• use subject and object pronouns; and
• use want with nouns and infinitives.

This material is aimed at students with an IELTS level of 2.0. The exit level of this course is equivalent to an approximate TOEFL score of 250. Starting Skills in English Part B Reading and Writing is also available. There are linked courses in Listening and Speaking and Vocabulary and Grammar. See the Skills in English website at skillsinenglish.com for additional materials and help.

Key Features

• Reading texts a maximum of 250 words
• Writing tasks are short paragraphs
• Teacher's Book containing a full answer key, language and culture notes and methodology notes
• Allows beginners immediate access to study of academic English skills
• Available as three books - Listening and Speaking, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar - at two levels
• Language and culture notes available for Arabic, Chinese and Japanese learners
• Ideal for false beginners, i.e., students who have now acheived their full potential in English at school

Accompanying Course Book, Student Test Pack and Teacher Test Booklet also available.

Contents

Book Map
Introduction
Starter: Education and Daily Life
Theme 1: Work and Business
Theme 2: Science and Nature
Theme 3: The Physical World
Theme 4: Culture and Civilization
Theme 5: They Made Our World
Theme 6: Art and Literature
Theme 7: Sports and Leisure
Theme 8: Nutrition and Health
Word Lists:
Thematic
Alphabetical