Listening and Speaking

Starting Skills in English Listening and Speaking Part B Student CDs Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your listening and speaking? Then you need Starting Skills in English Listening and Speaking. This course helps you hear and produce basic English. In Part B you learn how to hear and say 200 key words in isolation and context from the following knowledge areas: * Education * Daily Life * Work and Business * Science and Nature * The Physical World * Culture and Civilization * Technology * Art and Literature * Sports and Leisure * Nutrition and Health You will also learn to: * ask about jobs; * ask about regular events - usually, ever, often; * ask about the weather; * compare notes - names and numbers; * compare two things; * find important words that are often at the end of a sentence; * guess meanings, pronunciation, spelling; * start a conversation; * identify multi-syllable words from the strong sound; * predict the next subject; * predict the next word or phrase; * talk about likes and dislikes; * talk about quantity; * talk about regular events - frequency adverbs; * talk about the weather; * understand the vale of and, but, or; * use ago; * use drawings and diagrams; * make and answer questions; * improve your pronunciation; * stress long words; * talk about possibilities, likes and dislikes; * talk about containers; * identify questions; * use the correct short form; * predict the structure of a talk; * listen and react; * give examples and lists; * recognise change of subject; and * guess the pronunciation of vowels. This material is aimed at students with an IELTS level of 3.0. The level of this course is equivalent to an approximate TOEFL score of 400. There are linked courses in Reading and Writing and Vocabulary and Grammar. See the Skills in English website at skillsinenglish.com for additional materials and help. Key Features * Listening texts a maximum of 400 words * Speaking tasks are short paragraphs * Teacher's Book containing a full answer key, language and culture notes, methodology notes and transcript of listening material * Allows beginners immediate access to study of academic English skills * Available as three books - Listening and Speaking, Reading and Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar - at two levels * Ideal for false beginners, i.e., students who have not achieved their full potential in English at school Accompanying Course Book, Teacher's Book, Student Test Pack and Teacher Test Booklet also available.