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English for Academic Purposes
Starting Skills in English: Listening and Speaking Part A
Course Book
By Terry Phillips and Anna Phillips
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Category: English for Academic Purposes Level: False beginner to elementary CEF: A1 to A2 IELTS: 2.0 to 3.0 Series: Starting Skills in English |
Starting Skills in English Listening and Speaking Part A Course Book
Have you studied English at school?
Do you need to improve your listening and speaking?
Then you need Starting Skills in English Listening and Speaking.
This course helps you hear and produce basic English. In Part A you learn how to hear and say 200 key words in isolation and context from eight key knowledge areas.
You will also learn to:
- ask about abilities;
- hear and say key sounds in English;
- ask about new words;
- define objects;
- describe objects - colour and size;
- describe places;
- hear and say key questions;
- identify key factual information in speech;
- introduce yourself;
- listen for examples;
- predict information in a talk;
- predict the next word or phrase in a sentence;
- talk about bar charts and pie charts;
- talk about facts in the past;
- talk about yourself;
- and understand classroom instructions.
Starting Skills in English Part B Listening and Speaking is also available. There are linked courses in Reading and Writing and Vocabulary and Grammar. See the Skills in English website at skillsinenglish.com for additional materials and help.
Key Features
- Listening texts a maximum of 400 words
- Speaking tasks are short paragraphs
- Teacher's Book containing a full answer key, language and culture notes, methodology notes and transcript of listening material
- 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
- Ideal for false beginners, i.e., students who have not achieved their full potential in English at school
Accompanying Teacher's Book, audio, 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
Tapescript
"The common-core knowledge in this series is the next big step for ELT to take in the 21st century."
- David Crystal"Extremely well-planned and constructed and very impressive."
- Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award judges"At last a course that truly prepares students for IELTS by developing the necessary skills from the pre-intermediate level."
- Kevin Higgins, Professor of English, Asian University of Science and Technology, Thailand"I would thoroughly recommend this series to any centre running academic English courses."
- Tessa Moore, University of Nottingham"We have finally found a textbook which caters for international students at tertiary level."
- Sophia Michael, Intercollege, Cyprus"A very useful addition to the EAP tutor toolkit, which has received positive feedback from students too."
- Lezli Ataker, Nottingham Trent University"Attractively presented, with interesting topics and a number of language tasks which engage the students' interest and enhance the four language skills."
- Buckinghamshire Chilterns University"The topics are very interesting because they reflect today's world and what surrounds our students."
- Daniela Rizzuti, University of Calabria, Italy"Very appropriate for mixed-ability groups having different degrees of confidence in their English abilities."
- Aston University, UK"We are now using this series very successfully."
- Judith Sclare, EFL Unit, University of Glasgow"The single most useful tool you could buy, if you are going to invest in a resource for embedding ESOL into a mainstream Science or other study curriculum, or if you are resourcing a Language Support provision."
- Liverpool Community College"The topics and tasks are appropriate for all learners and the course is preparing them well for future university study."
- Helen Armstrong, University of TeessideContains full colour photos, tables and illustrations
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