Good News, Bad News Compact Disc : A listening and discussion text (American English) designed around an entertaining collection of true news reports about interesting characters and events. Good News, Bad News is designed to help students improve their general listening and speaking ability while focusing on the skills required for listening to broadcast media.
Key Features
- It presents 18 true stories in radio news format. The stories are light-hearted and feature interesting characters and events.
- It helps students improve their general listening and discussion abilities while teaching the skills required to understand broadcast
news.
- All units have a series of task-based activities that guide students from general to detailed understanding of the news report, and
provide meaningful fluency practice related to the story's theme.
- The short, focused units can be completed in one class period.
- Vocabulary building exercises introduce and practice new language.
- Communicative speaking tasks build on the theme of the story and provide opportunities for student personalization.
- An optional 'Extra Practice' section at the back of the book further consolidates new vocabulary