Published in conjunction with The British Council, this is a four-part ELT course for teenagers, consisting of student's books, practice books, teacher's books and cassettes. Language is introduced gradually, and recycled throughout the course to build students' confidence.
Published in conjunction with The British Council, this is a four-part ELT course for teenagers, consisting of student's books, practice books, teacher's books and cassettes. Language is introduced gradually, and recycled throughout the course to build students' confidence.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Building Skills for Understanding is the low-intermediate level of the Active Listening series. By activating students' knowledge of a topic before they listen, the text gives them a frame of reference to make intelligent predictions about what they will hear. Stude…
This is part of a series of books, each with an accompanying cassette, (available separately), which gives training in key business communication skills. Emphasis is placed on building awareness of language appropriateness and fluency in typical business interactions. The listening material includes both native and non-native spoken English. Each book/cassette "package" is designed for use in c…
The Active Listening series is a three-level listening course in North American English. It draws on recent research in comprehension, and offers students 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. In the first two levels (Introducing and Building), students learn to listen through a careful balance of activities, including listening for gist, list…
Getting Ahead is a course for students at the pre-intermediate level who want to improve their English for business and professional purposes. It is suitable both for students who are preparing for work and those who are in employment already. At the same time as drawing on the learner's own experience, the course provides activities which give the less experienced learner the opportunity to pa…
Provides the social language and practice the business person needs to smooth the way towards a business deal, while travelling, at business meals, or in social exchanges at conferences or elsewhere.