True Colors 1: An EFL Course for Real Communication (Student Book)

White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Publishing Co, 1997. As New. This is part of a five-level course for young adult and adult learners, spe cifically designed for international students. The course balances presenta tion, practice and production, ensuring the students feel prepared and read y to communicate in English. It carefully distinguishes between receptive a nd productive activities, because students can understand more difficult ma terial than they can produce. The course aims to surround international stu dents with the voice of the native speaker, supplying the rich listening pr actice they need. It tightly connects social language and grammar so that g rammar is not taught in isolation, but with meaning and purpose. The course also aims to achieve real communication in the classroom through a combina tion of activities: "Improvise" encourages students to take new language an d make it their own; "Heart to Heart" enables students to voice their own t houghts and views; and "In Your Own Words" activates intensive review and c ommunication through full-page pictures.