So to Speak

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so TO SPEAK is a coursebook - as opposed to a textbook - in that it is intended to supply teaching and learning materials to accompany an intermediate/advanced course in English. It is not designed to be the coursebook at this level, but to be a bank of materials to supplement such a coursebook.
It continues to be appropriate that, wfhen the 'subject' is English, the focus of attention should be on the country that gave rise to the language. SO TO SPEAK is a book about Britain; but, more than this, it is about the issues that concern all of us as they are experienced in Britain. There is not one experience of these issues, however; and for this reason, many people's views are expressed in the Coursebook, and many positions are taken.
A course of British Studies is not merely a course about Britain: the aim of any course about another culture is to stimulate thinking about one's own. To that extent, SO TO SPEAK might be used with other students, proficient in... Tovább

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30 til SjIDiljl
so TO SPEAK is a coursebook - as opposed to a textbook - in that it is intended to supply teaching and learning materials to accompany an intermediate/advanced course in English. It is not designed to be the coursebook at this level, but to be a bank of materials to supplement such a coursebook.
It continues to be appropriate that, wfhen the 'subject' is English, the focus of attention should be on the country that gave rise to the language. SO TO SPEAK is a book about Britain; but, more than this, it is about the issues that concern all of us as they are experienced in Britain. There is not one experience of these issues, however; and for this reason, many people's views are expressed in the Coursebook, and many positions are taken.
A course of British Studies is not merely a course about Britain: the aim of any course about another culture is to stimulate thinking about one's own. To that extent, SO TO SPEAK might be used with other students, proficient in English, than those who aim to specialise in 'English' as a subject. Among all the objectives of a well-rounded education, none can be more important than to give students the tools for thinking critically about their own culture - its values and its prejudices. The study of another culture can help them to do this.
The fact that SO TO SPEAK offers a wide range of things to do, will ensure that this study, and this thinking, is practical, and is focused on what is everyday, and what is shared.

Dr. Colin Swatridge has been a teacher, an A-Level Chief Examiner and Open University tutor in England. Since 1998 he has been a visiting lecturer in more than one Hungarian university, spending a third of each year in that country. Among other works he has written a book about Hungary and Hungarians which he entitled, paraphrasing great Hungarian expatriate writer George Mikes, "A Country Full of Aliens". Vissza