Hotline - Elementary - Student's Book

Fülszöveg

Hotline is a four-level course for teenagers. It may be started at beginner level (Hotline Starter) or false-beginner level (Hotline Elementary). Hotline takes students to an Intermediate level of English.
Its key features are:
• a loopback syllabus. The course incorporates extensive recycling and revision of language ensuring that what is studied is learnt, remembered and easily recalled when needed.
• a grammar-based analytical approach. Grammar is treated as a problem-solving activity and students are treated as thinkers who are guided to work out the rules of grammar for themselves.
• skills work. All the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are covered.
• project work. Through project work students are given the opportunity to talk and write about their life and to relate language to their own experience and aspirations.
• cross-cultural and cross-curricular studies. Students are encouraged to compare their own language and culture to that of English... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Hotline is a four-level course for teenagers. It may be started at beginner level (Hotline Starter) or false-beginner level (Hotline Elementary). Hotline takes students to an Intermediate level of English.
Its key features are:
• a loopback syllabus. The course incorporates extensive recycling and revision of language ensuring that what is studied is learnt, remembered and easily recalled when needed.
• a grammar-based analytical approach. Grammar is treated as a problem-solving activity and students are treated as thinkers who are guided to work out the rules of grammar for themselves.
• skills work. All the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are covered.
• project work. Through project work students are given the opportunity to talk and write about their life and to relate language to their own experience and aspirations.
• cross-cultural and cross-curricular studies. Students are encouraged to compare their own language and culture to that of English and the world of English speakers. Topics from other school subjects are introduced to integrate language studies with other subjects on the curriculum.
• learner training. Through a variety of activities including a learning diary, self checks and project work, students are guided towards good learning strategies and encouraged to accept responsibility for their own learning.
The Student's book for each level is accompanied by a Teacher's book, a Workbook and a set of two audio cassettes.
Tom Hutchinson teaches at Lancaster University in the Institute for English Language Education where he is mainly concerned with teacher-training courses. He has given teacher-training seminars in many countries around the world.
Tom Hutchinson began his teaching career in a secondary school and has many years of experience teaching teenagers. He knows their interests and their needs.
Through his extensive experience in teacher training, he also understands what teachers require from a good language coursebook.
In 1986 he was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's English Language prize for Project English. Vissza