- Situational contexts in daily life (e.g. pastimes, culture, neighbourhood, etc.)
- Development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills
- Vocabulary enrichment (bilingual in meanings and sentences)
- Interactive lessons and activities
- Audio tool to practise your pronunciation, enunciation, modulation and intonation
- 50 lessons, 26 grammar items, 150 practices, 50 speaking guide
This courseware is intended for secondary school and adult learners. The aim of this courseware is to build English learners' confidence in speaking the language by developing their communicative ability in real-life situations. Toward that end, we have adopted the communicative language teaching approach for our courseware. This approach highlights learners' communicative competence, which is the learners' ability to efficiently express what they mean in the target language (English) and successfully achieve communications in real-life situations.
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING – THE RATIONALE
We use language for communication. But language is more than just a tool for communication – it has implicit social and cultural elements. Merely learning the linguistic aspects of English cannot successfully engage learners in real-life communications. Learners also need to acquire pragmatic competence – the capacity to incorporate cultural knowledge into language use and choose appropriate language in different sociocultural contexts. The communicative language teaching approach that we employ focuses on teaching learners to efficiently use English in different contexts. By involving learners in a wide range of meaningful interactive situations, we can expect them to be progressively fluent when communicating in English.
One other purpose of this communicative approach is to create more comprehensible input. Through meaningful communication, learners have opportunities to notice the linguistic gap between their own first language and English. It is a long-held belief that this kind of gap-noticing can help learners know what is still needed to be learned, and this benefits the learning process.
MAKING THE MOST OF THE COURSEWARE
Lesson Contents:
CD1
1. At the travel agency
2. Checking into a hotel - At the reception
3. Call for room service
4. At the market
5. At the theme park ticketing counter
6. Surfing the Internet
7. Traveller in the airport departure terminal
8. At the museum
9. Watching a movie
10. At the seaside
CD2
1. The Hari Raya open house
2. Chinese New Year’s eve
3. A kolam designing competition
4. Celebrating Christmas
5. East Malaysia’s Harvest Festivals
6. Dinner in a western food restaurant
7. Paying the food bill
8. Making lemang
9. Dining out
10. A visit to a night market
CD3
1. Making an appointment for job interview
2. A job interview
3. Introducing oneself
4. A promotion and a farewell
5. Planning for the future
6. Deciding where to go and what to have for lunch
7. Looking for accommodation near the office
8. Late for work
9. The walkathon competition
10. Requesting for a waiver of annual fees
CD4
1. Visiting a friend at a guarded condominium
2. Breakfast time
3. Preparing breakfast
4. Buying some provisions
5. Safety in the neighbourhood
6. At the mamak stall
7. Gotong-royong
8. Interviewing a fire victim
9. Help to look after the house
10. Planting vegetables in garden
CD5
1. At the LRT counter
2. At the pharmacy
3. At the dental clinic
4. At the clinic
5. The patient and the nurse
6. Visiting an uncle in hospital after surgery
7. At the post office to pay utility bills
8. Registering a complaint about incorrect billing
9. At the post office - correcting a mistake
10. Making a report at a police beat base
What is in the package: 5 CD-Roms
Age range: 14 years old onwards
Weight: 600 g
Package size: 27.0cm x 19.5cm x 4.5cm
Free delivery within Peninsular Malaysia