Full Description
This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication in both academic and non-academic environments on campus. It encourages an 'interactional' rather than a 'speaker focused' language development approach. Drawing on corpus data, it exposes students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and grammar, illustrates the most effective conversation maintenance and communication strategies and draws attention to the socio-cultural aspects of communication.
Campus Talk comprises two textbooks. Each textbook contains four instructional units and each unit is based on situations and conversations that students will come across in their everyday lives on campus.
Part 1, comprising units 1-4 covers areas such as striking up a conversation, sharing and responding to news, making small talk, managing group communication, expressing and reacting to opinions, expressing, responding and talking about feelings and making and responding to requests. Each unit includes:
Enabling, input-based and interactional tasks and activities Usage-informed vocabulary list Main production task Self-assessment
With a variety of challenging tasks and activities and plenty of opportunities to practice and engage in self-reflection and self-assessment, students using these books will grow their confidence and enhance their abilities to express themselves clearly, appropriately and effectively. The workbooks are aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills.
Contents
IntroductionUnit 1: Connecting With Each OtherUnit 1, Part 1: Striking Up a ConversationUnit 1, Part 2: Sharing and Responding to NewsUnit 1, Part 3: Make Small Talk/ChattingUnit 1, Final Unit TaskUnit 1 Self-Assessment: What Progress Did I Make?Unit 1 Vocabulary ListUnit 1 Quiz
Unit 2: Putting Your Heads TogetherUnit 2, Part 1: Managing Group CommunicationUnit 2, Part 2: Expressing and Reacting to OpinionsUnit 2, Part 3: Making and Responding to a SuggestionUnit 2, Final Unit TaskUnit 2 Self-Assessment: What Progress Did I Make?Unit 2 Vocabulary ListUnit 2 Quiz
Unit 3: Expressing YourselfUnit 3, Part 1: Expressing and Responding to Positive FeelingsUnit 3, Part 2: Expressing and Responding to Negative FeelingsUnit 3, Part 3: Talking About FeelingsUnit 3, Final Unit TaskUnit 3 Self-Assessment: What Progress Did I Make?Unit 3 Vocabulary ListUnit 3 Quiz
Unit 4: Getting Things DoneUnit 4, Part 1: Making and Responding to Direct RequestsUnit 4, Part 2: Making and Responding to Indirect RequestsUnit 4, Part 3: Softening RequestsUnit 4, Final Unit TaskUnit 4 Self-Assessment: What Progress Did I Make?Unit 4 Vocabulary ListUnit 4 Quiz
