Hotline - Elementary - Workbook

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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 extensíve recyclfng 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. Ali the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are covered. • project work. Through project work students are given the opportunity to talk and wríte 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. This level of Hotline comprises a Student's Book, Workbook, Teacher's Book and an audio ca ssette. This Workbook coniains write-in exercises related to all sections of the regular units of the Student's Book. Answers to all the exercises are provided in the Teacher's Book. Additionai features of the Hotline Workbooks are: • culture spots. Each unit contains a culture spot section which híghlights an aspect of British life and invites the students to compare and contrast this with life in their own country. • self-checks. Each unit contains a self-check of the main learning points in the unit. This allows the students to test themselves and at the same time provides the teacher with useful feedback on individual student progress. • grammar summaries and explanations. To complement the problemsolving grammar approach of the Student's Book, the Workbook provides full grammar summaries and helpful explanations as well as additionai grammar exercises. • crosswords. Revision units feature a crossword for vocabulary revision. Vissza