Realistic English Drills 2. - Teacher's Edition [antikvár]

Preface to the New EditionThis new edition oiRealisticEnglish is changed in several ways from the edition first published in 1968-70. The purpose of these changes is to make the course more flexible to use and to provide greater support for the teacher in the classroom situation. The major changes are:There are separate books of Dialogues and Drills at each of the three levels of the course and a' Teacher's Book for the Drills at each level. This means that the Dialogues and Drills can now be used independently or out of step with each other. The Dialogue Books have been amplified considerably with exploitation material for the teacher to use in the classroom in a variety of ways. They are also fully illustrated with photographs and line drawings. The Drill Books now have grammatical explanations for each structure practised, and suggestions for follow-up work in the classroom. The complete script of each drill is printed in the Teacher's Book, while the Student's Book contains all the prompt sentences, but not the responses. This means that the Drills can now be used without a tape-recorder and for individual remedial work.Teachers learn from their students: these changes reflect some of the things we have learnt from using Realistic English with students over the past ten years and we are grateful to all of them for their help, and to the teachers who have shared their experiences with us.Brian Abbs Vivian Cook Mary UnderwoodIntroductionRealistic English Drills is a comprehensive course covering the major grammatical structures of English at intermediate and advanced levels for adults and students in secondary schools. It can be used with or without its accompanying tapes. The course is divided into three books at increasing levels of difficulty. Complementary to Realistic English Drills are Realistic English Dialogues, which contain sets of dialogues and classroom activities, disxA Authentic English for Reading, which contain sets of reading passages and comprehension activities. These are also divided into the same three levels.The teaching method in Realistic English Drills consists of structure drills. The kind of drill that is used resembles a conversational exchange between two people, divided into two partswhat the first speaker says and what the second speaker replies. A typical drill has three complete exchanges as examples; then the second speaker is faded out and the student has to supply his or her replies. The drills are like bits of conversation: the students hear something they might hear in real life and they reply in a way that they