A communicative course that helps develop confident, fluent speakers who can successfully use English for socializing, traveling, further education and business.
It integrates a variety of regional, national, and non-native accents throughout the listening texts and in the video program, Top Notch TV.
Top Notch is unique in including a cultural fluency syllabus in which students learn to navigate dealing with people of different languages and cultures.
Read This! Intro contains fifteen fascinating stories relating to the fields of Education, Sociology, Science, Marketing, and TV and Film Studies. For example, students read about schools in which students, not teachers make the rules; apartments that are designed to be difficult to live in; and reality TV shows in which the audience likes the meanest judges the best. These non-fiction stories are written in an accessible narrative style and are appropriate for high beginning students. Illustrated with attractive color photos, this low-level reading book will motivate even the lowest level reading students to start reading content-rich texts.
The Student's book is divided into eight Units, each of which comprises three lessons. Each Unit focuses on a central topic or theme, which links the three lessons and leads to an extended project. This topic or theme functions as an "umbrella", under which relevant topics or subthemes come together to form the contents of the unit.
A Time of Waiting - Bookworms 4When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world
With her theory of 'Language as Dialogue', Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of 'competence-in-performance' solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus substantially shaped the way in which people look at language today. This book traces Weigand's linguistic career from its beginning to today and comprises a selection of articles which take the reader on a vivid and fascinating journey through the most important stages of her theorizing.
