National Pedagogic Centre, 2008. — 280 pages.
Writing Team: Jawida Ben Afia, Jameledine Aichi, Fatma Bechoual, Rachid Najar."Skills for Life" is a book for students in Year 4 Secondary Education. It addresses all students in various streams through a common core of lessons, with additional material for the Arts students to be covered in the two weekly extra hours. These are labelled : For Arts Students.
The book is made up of an Introductory Unit, 4 nine-lesson Units and 3 Consolidation Units (Checking Year
3.Check your Language and Skills 1&2) with a last section entitled ADD-ONS including a Grammar Reference. Vocabulary strategies. Irregular Verbs and a Word List .
The units are based on all four language skills which are developed in an integrated manner This skills blend is reflected in the use of INTO in the lesson titles which are labelled :Speaking INTO Reading . Listening INTO Writing. Reading INTO Writing. Speaking INTO Listening.
This skill integration takes students from the construction of meaning through listening and reading passages to communicating in speech and writing.
The listening and reading texts are exploited for information and linguistic content and serve as a springboard for production. They come from different sources: novels, magazines, newspapers, ads. leaflets, poems, songs, plays. to sensitize students to different genres.
The learner is led to construct knowledge and learn how to reinvest it in a range of situations that relate to real life.
