Author: Ruth Gairns and Stuart Redman.
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 183 p.
A modern course centring around a natural English syllabus strand, effective teaching of listening, and opportunities for teacher development.
Overview.
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.
Key features:
natural English is a syllabus strand which enables students to integrate frequent, natural language into their language framework.
Students learn to use real language naturally, through thinking and rehearsal time, confidence-building practice, and task-centred speaking.
The listening syllabus teaches students how to listen. A slot-in listening booklet features the tapescripts plus decoding and pronunciation exercises.
Teacher's Book lesson plans, a product of the authors' teacher training expertise, talk teachers through the course materials.
Teacher's Book chapters cover teaching principles, techniques, and ideas, plus a selected bibliography.
Humour engages and motivates through cartoons, jokes, and the listening and reading material.
Join the Oxford Teacher's Club for access to the natural English website, which offers downloadable and customizable course materials, additional teaching, teacher training, and revision resources.
Reading and Writing Skills Resource Book:
- photocopiable resource for teachers.
- use with natural English student's book or on its own.
- based on authentic texts and tasks.
- develops 'real life' reading and writing skills.
