Full Description
Cambridge Skills for Fluency is a learner-centred range of materials designed specifically to develop students' fluency and confidence in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The books are at four levels from pre-intermediate through to advanced and are suitable for use as supplementary texts or as core texts on skills development courses. Each book in the Cambridge Skills for Fluency series: * promotes fluency by presenting a wide variety of both old and new topics in creative and imaginative ways * genuinely engages students' interest and encourages them to share personal reactions and opinions fluently * focuses on a particular skill but the other skills are integrated in a way that reflects real-life use of language * contains 20 units designed to take about an hour of class time, a detailed contents map and brief teaching notes.
Table of Contents
Map of the book
Acknowledgements
1. Secrets: Gossiping and keeping secrets
2. And now, ladies and gentlemen: Making oral
presentations and participating in discussion
3. Stress: Stress in modern life aned in the
language classroom
4. Well brought up?: Politness and rudeness
5. All in a day's work: Daily routines at work
and at home
6. Getting away from it all: Opting out of a
conventional life style
7. Remember, remember: Memory and memory
failures
8. My brilliant career?: Ambition, jobs and
career counselling
9. Magic moments: Magic and legends from the
past of the present
10. Threatening times: Dangers for individuals,
countries, the planet
11. Love, hope and charity: Charity appeals
12. Buildings to live in: Good and bad features
of public buildings
13. Buildings to live in: Homes, present and
future
14. The benefit of experience: Creating
information guides and cassettes
15. Special cases?: Providing for different
needs
16. In sickness ...: Pain and disease
17. And in health: Alternative methods of
healing
18. Children and adults: Growing up, bringing
up children
19. Fostering Sally: Caring for children in
difficult situations
20. Keeping in touch: Communicating and failing
to communicate
Key
Tapescript
To the teacher.
