Communication Spotlight: Speaking Strategies and Listening Skills
by Alastair Graham-Marr
Series Editor: Chris Clearey

ABAX Catalog | Classroom Text | ESL/EFL College & High School Students | Listening and Speaking

Key Features:

Spotlight on Listening: A look into the skills and strategies of listening, how English is naturally pronounced in streams of connected discourse, using your world knowledge to get to meaning

Spotlight on Speaking: A focus on how second language speakers can better use strategies to communicate their message

Spotlight on Memory: A focus on short term memory, with an eye to stretching it.

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Communication Spotlight is designed to draw student attention to important aspects of English while practicing and using the language. It is designed to give students the means to control their communication.

As such, the book is loaded with pair work and group work to give the students maximum opportunity to practice their English.

A focus on form within a communicative framework.

Communication Spotlight
by Alastair Graham-Marr

Series Editor:
Chris Cleary

Text & Audio CD
ISBN 1-896942-19-9

Level: The series is aimed at pre-intermediate students with an emerging competence. (Approx. TOEIC Range: 435 - 535)

Focuses on:

• Conversation management
• Compensation strategies
• Involvement strategies
• Confirmation strategies
• Using knowledge of sentence patterns for inference
• Using knowledge of discourse patterns for inference
• Understanding weak vowels
• Understanding disappearing sounds
• Understanding linking sounds
• Understanding blended sounds

All within a communicative framework, chock-a-block of speaking activities to get your students talking right away.

Students are presented with discrete strategies and skills in each unit, then given the opportunity to practice and experiement with the language.

Communication Spotlight: Giving Students Control over their Language!

Sample Units | Introduction to book |
Teacher's Notes | Answer Key | Audio Sample | E-sample of book |

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Classroom Text | Supplemental Text | Software | Teacher's Resource | Classroom Resource

by Learner:

College Students | Business Learners | Children

by Skill:

Listening and Speaking | Reading | Vocabulary Development | Early Language Development