Face2face Elementary Teachers Book pdf download

Face2face Elementary Teachers Book

FACE2FACE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS BOOK

The face2face Approach

Listening

A typical listening practice activity checks students’ understanding of gist and then asks questions about specific details. The innovative Help with Listening sections takes students a step further by focusing on the underlying reasons why listening lo English can be so problematic. Activities in the sections:

• Focus on the stress system in English and its relationship to the main information in a text.
• Examine features of connected speech.
• Students for what people in public places say.
• Highlight how intonation conveys mood and feelings.
• Encourage students to make the link between the written and the spoken word by asking them to work with the recording scripts while they listen.

For Teaching Tips on Listening, see pl8.

Speaking

All the lessons in face2face Elementary and the Class Activities pho to copiable provide students with numerous speaking opportunities. Many of these activities focus on accuracy, while the fluency activities help students to gain confidence, take risks and try out what they have learned. For fluency. activities to be truly ‘fluent’, however, students often need time to formulate their ideas before they speak, and this preparation is incorporated into the Get ready … Get it rigl1t! activities.

For Teaching Tips on Speaking, see pl8.

Reading and Writing

In the face2face Elementary Student’s Book, reading texts from a wide variety of genres are used both to present

new language and to provide reading practice. Reading sub­ skills, such as skimming and scanning, are also extensively practiced. In addition, there are a number of writing activities, which consolidate the language input of the lesson.

For classes that require more practice of reading and writing skills, there is the 24-page Reading and Writing Portfolio in