Active Skills For Communication
Subtitle: Student Book One
Edition: First
Series: Active Skills For Communication
Publisher: Heinle, Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Copyright date: 2009
Description: ACTIVE Skills for Communication is an exciting new three-level series that develops learners' speaking and listening skills.

The series builds on Neil J. Anderson’s ACTIVE approach (see also ACTIVE Skills for Reading, 2nd Edition) to help learners become more fluent, confident—and active—speakers of English. Each unit contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step activities that lead toward a major speaking task. The tasks are based on real-life situations, and are designed to increase self confidence and foster positive attitudes towards learning English.
Notes: Fluency strategies help learners develop effective conversation management skills
Critical Thinking activities encourage learners to think deeply about how they express themselves in English
Useful Expressions help learners interact more freely in personalized speaking activities
Presentation Tips help learners develop confidence and effective presentation skills
A Workbook for each level provides learners with reinforcement and extension activities for vocabulary, grammar, conversation strategies, and critical thinking
A Teacher's Edition for each level includes notes, suggestions, answer keys, and teaching information, additional activities for each unit, photocopiable activity pages, unit assessments, and tests, and audio scripts
Spoken English sections shows learners how native speakers of English really talk