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Skills in English Listening Level 3 (course book)

Skills in English Listening Level 3 (course book)

by TerryPhillips (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.30
Synopsis

Skills in English Listening Level 3 Course Book The Garnet Education Skills in English series was highly commended in the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award in 2004. Do you have to listen to lectures in English as part of your studies? Then you need Skills in English Listening. This course builds the skills that help you survive in the lecture room. At Level 3, you learn how to: * recognise fixed phrases in the stream of speech; * use abbreviations and symbols in note-taking; * take notes of stories, ideas, etc; * leave space in notes for missing information; * recognise digressions; * understand signpost language; * recognise rhetorical questions; * distinguish fact from opinion; * understand a speaker's argument; * guess the spelling of proper nouns; * understand dramatic language. As well as preparing students for entry into English-medium study, the Skills in English Course is ideal for students who wish to improve their scores in skills-based examinations for university entry requirements, such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Rather than focusing on exam preparation, Skills in English teaches the necessary skills as part of a systematic programme of language development. Skills in English courses are also available in Speaking, Reading and Writing. See the Skills in English website at skillsinenglish.com for additional materials and help. Key Features * Reading texts a maximum of 700 words * Listening texts a maximum of 1,000 words * Speaking tasks between five and ten paragraphs, with short essay-type writing assignments * Test booklets containing theme tests, a revision test after five units, plus an end-of-course test * Over five hours of audio material * Teacher's Book containing full answer keys, methodology notes and transcript of listening material * All lectures available on DVD Accompanying Teacher's Book, audio, Student Test Pack and Teacher Test Booklet also available.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 76
 Publisher: Garnet Education
Published: 30 Apr 2004
ISBN 10: 1859647901
ISBN 13: 9781859647905

Media Reviews
The common-core knowledge in this series is the next big step for ELT to take in the 21st century. David Crystal Extremely well-planned and constructed and very impressive. Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award judges At last a course that truly prepares students for IELTS by developing the necessary skills from the pre-intermediate level. Kevin Higgins, Professor of English, Asian University of Science and Technology, Thailand Skills in English has formed the backbone of our 2008 Intensive English Course and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a skills-based course with an academic focus. Gabriel Roberts, University of Wales in Cardiff I would thoroughly recommend this series to any centre running academic English courses. Tessa Moore, University of Nottingham We have finally found a textbook which caters for international students at tertiary level. Sophia Michael, Intercollege, Cyprus A very useful addition to the EAP tutor toolkit, which has received positive feedback from students too. Lezli Ataker, Nottingham Trent University Attractively presented, with interesting topics and a number of language tasks which engage the students' interest and enhance the four language skills. Buckinghamshire Chilterns University The topics are very interesting because they reflect today's world and what surrounds our students. Daniela Rizzuti, University of Calabria, Italy Very appropriate for mixed-ability groups having different degrees of confidence in their English abilities. Aston University, UK We are now using this series very successfully. Judith Sclare, EFL Unit, University of Glasgow The Skills in English Listening books fill a big gap in the market. Morna Lawson, Academic English Tutor, Glasgow Caledonian University The single most useful tool you could buy, if you are going to invest in a resource for embedding ESOL into a mainstream Science or other study curriculum, or is you are resourcing a Language Support provision. Liverpool Community College The topics and tasks are appropriate for all learners and the course is preparing them well for future university study. Helen Armstrong, University of Teesside This is a listening skills course for students in tertiary education that aims to build up students' vocabulary and listening ability so that they can cope with lectures in English. The materials consist of a Course Book, Teacher's Book, CDs (or Cassettes) and a Test Pack, all available separately. Each level in the Skills in English series is organized into ten themes, ranging from education through science and nature to business, psychology and health. This common thematic organization allows for simultaneous use of, say, writing and listening skills materials, even if the materials are on different levels. The thematic units in the listening series are divided into four parts, each with a different skills focus: (1) core vocabulary, (2) listening practice, (3) new listening skills and (4) applying new skills. Thus there is a principled build-up of knowledge and ability with appropriate practice. The topics chosen are attractive. For example, in the unit on economics, business, students listen to parts of a lecture recounting findings in motivation and needs research. Or in the unit on health, they hear a talk on food safety. The accompanying activities are well planned, and the listening mini-skills chosen for practice are useful ones. Unlike most course materials, the Teacher's Book for Skills in English: Listening is longer than the Course Book. That is because it advises teachers on the set-up of each activity as well as providing an answer key, methodological and cultural notes and tapescripts. The CEF level of Skills in English: Listening is not C1, as indicated on the cover, but something more like B1/B2 (upper-intermediate), which is what the publisher's catalogue suggests. The chief reason for this classification is the audio material, which is mostly in the form of lectures. Lecturing is clearly the most important genre for an academic listening course. However, the lectures in these materials are not authentic, being merely high-quality recordings of actors or teachers with a variety of British accents reading lecture scripts slowly and clearly. Consequently, there are no false starts, no half-finished sentences, no 10-clause utterances, no changes of pace, which are all characteristics of real lectures that sometimes make them difficult to understand. I cannot therefore imagine that Swiss university students, who are generally beyond level B2, would find the listening activities challenging. Overall, this is a well-conceived academic listening package that provides a great many listening opportunities for students and substantial didactic support for teachers. Considering its wide range of interesting topics, it might prove popular in academic-track upper secondary schools, where students are preparing for university life. Swiss university students, on the other hand, need practice in coping with the 'messier' aspects of speech in impromptu lectures. Heather Murray for the ETAS Journal, 24/1, Winter 2006
Author Bio
Terry Phillips has worked in ELT for more than 35 years as a teacher, teaching supervisor, manager and language school owner. As a consultant, he has worked in more than 20 countries in all parts of the world, advising state and private language institutions on all aspects of school management. For the last ten years, he has been a full time freelance writer with his wife Anna, producing more than 160 published books in ELT. Although he and Anna have worked for all the major publishers, all recent works have been for Garnet Education, including the multi-level EAP course, Skills in English. The course was highly commended in The Duke of Edinburgh's English Speaking Union Award for 2004. It is taught in a large number of universities in the UK and around the world. Terry and Anna are currently working on New Skills in English, a fully revised and updated version of the course. Terry is also the series editor of the new English for Specific Academic Purposes series for Garnet Education, which aims to prepare students to entry into a particular faculty for English-medium tertiary education. The series recently won the ESU award. Anna Phillips has worked in ELT for more than 30 years. She has worked as a teacher of both multilingual and monolingual classes, with teenagers and adults, in both the UK and abroad. Anna began writing materials for special courses as a senior teacher working for the British Council in Oman. Later, as Director of Studies and Owner-Manager of the International House school in Oman, she spent much of her time adapting and developing materials, owing to the lack of suitable course books for the needs of the students. During this period Anna was also extensively involved in teacher training, both in-service and also for CELTA and DELTA. She was also an examiner for CELTA and travelled extensively throughout the Gulf region in this role. In 1989 Anna completed her MA (TEFL) from Reading University. Since returning to the UK, Anna has worked with Terry Phillips on a large number of textbooks for a variety of publishers. Most recently, she and Terry have been working on the Skills in English series. Anna's particular interest is making course books more 'user friendly' for teachers who are not native speakers of English, and so she has been very much involved in developing resources for the teachers using the UAE version of Skills in English. Anna is currently working on New Skills in English, a completely revised and extended version of the current series.