Description
| Product ID: | 9780194203067 |
| Product Form: | Multiple-component retail product |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Trio Listening and Speaking |
| Title: | Trio Listening and Speaking: Level 1: Student Book Pack with Online Practice |
| Subtitle: | Building Better Communicators...From the Beginning |
| Authors: | Author: Alice Savage, Colin Ward |
| Subjects: | Language learning: speaking skills, ELT: speaking skills, Language learning: listening skills, ELT: listening skills, English |
| Description: | Trio Listening and Speaking is a three-level course that helps beginner English students develop their listening and speaking skills through step-by-step instruction. Trio Listening and Speaking prepares students for academic success by introducing skills development from the beginning. Readiness Unit For added flexibility, each level of Trio Listening and Speaking begins with an optional Readiness Unit to provide fundamental English tools for beginning students. Vocabulary based on the Oxford 2000 keywords Trio Listening and Speaking''s vocabulary is based on the 2,000 most important and useful words to learn at the early stages of language learning. The combination of academic topics and controlled vocabulary based on the Oxford 2000 word list makes the content in Trio Listening and Speaking approachable for low-level learners. Each chapter begins by introducing Oxford 2000 vocabulary. It contextualizes the vocabulary within listening texts, while vocabulary strategies help students to understand the words in use. Develops practical speaking and listening skills Conversation and Academic Listening prepare learners for everyday situations and academic life creating confident speakers. Listening Strategy boxes present information and techniques to help students understand ways in which English speakers manage a conversation. For example, how a speaker expresses pauses, and encourages the person they are talking with. Sounds of English improve understanding of how English is really spoken The ''Sounds of English'' boxes present information on: recognizing and producing correct stress and intonation at word and sentence level. Sound-symbol decoding is an important part of the teaching approach as it encourages students to listen, notice, and learn to recognize the form in natural speech e.g. ''Do you'' = ''Duya''. Motivating Vocabulary and Grammar Chants help students internalize the target grammar structure and vocabulary for greater accuracy and fluency. Essential online practice Trio Listening and Speaking Online Practice provides multiple opportunities for skills practice and acquisition—beyond the classroom and beyond the page. Each unit of Trio Listening and Speaking is accompanied by a variety of automatically-graded activities. Students'' progress is recorded, tracked, and fed back to the instructor. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-07-06 |
