New Headway English Course now provides a seamless syllabus progression from beginner to upper-intermediate level.
It takes a clear and structured approach to grammar. Grammatical structures are introduced in context, with questions that encourage students to work out the rules for themselves. A comprehensive 'Grammar section' at the back of the Student's Books provides a useful reference before, during or after the lesson.
A well-defined vocabulary syllabus concentrates on three key areas: learning new words in lexical sets; acquiring good habits for learning vocabulary; and developing vocabulary 'systems' such as sound and spelling relationships.
Integrated skills work is an important feature of the course. In every unit the reading and listening activities contextualize and bring together much previously introduced language. The choice of interesting texts, together with manageable, motivating tasks ensure students develop fluency and accuracy in all four skills.
Unit 1 Avoiding repetition - Describing nationlities - British and American English
Unit 2 Phrasal verbs - Tense review - Sounds and spelling
Unit 3 Describing trends - Compsring statistics - Adverbs 1 - Word linking
Unit 4 Syonnyms and antonyms 1 - Discourse markes - Tags and replies
Unit 5 Ways of adding emphasis - Proverbs and poetry - Getting emotion
Unit 6 Distancing the facts - Nouns formed from phrasal verbs - Responding to news
Unit 7 Modal auxiliary verbs - Rhyme and reason - Breaking the rules of English
Unit 8 Metaphors and idioms - Real and unreal tense - Softening the meassge
Unit 9 Verb patterns - Homonyms,homophographs - Telling jokes
Unit 10 Sports - Intensifying adverbs - The body - Cliches
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