An attractive and innovative fourlevel course for lower-secondary

An attractive and innovative fourlevel course for lower-secondary students.

Description • Each unit of the Student's Book is divided into 3 manageable steps with clear aims and outcomes. Students can see quick results through regular 'Use what you know' sections at the end of each step. 'Life and culture' sections provide rich reading material while stimulating students' imaginations. There is a variety of exercises where students can work to their own level, making the course ideal for mixed ability classes. Coursework activities per module allow students to build up portfolios of work while online 'Infoquests' send students on a journey of discovery in English.

The aim of the book • Level B 1

Active, responsible learners • In the units, students engage actively with the material and use • a range of cognitive skills such as • guessing, • deducing, • comparing, • matching, • sequencing. • Students are asked to discover sentence • patterns and grammar rules for themselves, to make their own • exercises and to ‘test a friend’. There are frequent opportunities • for students to talk about themselves, their interests and their opinions.

Course components • Student’s Book • ●Six modules of two units each • ●Module opening pages • ●Extra exercises page with KET-style activities • ●Extra readings on Life and Culture • ●Review sections at the end of every module, containing • grammar ‘work it out’ tasks and consolidation exercises, • vocabulary summaries, study skills and a progress check • Coursework • ●Reference section that contains: • – Grammar index • – Communicative functions index • – Wordlist • – Phonetic symbols • – Verb forms and irregular verbs • – Song lyrics

Workbook • Full range of exercises, including more KETstyle activities • ●Extension activities for stronger learners • Learning diary • ●Comprehensive grammar notes • ●CD with Workbook audio and animated tour of the Infoquests

Teacher’s Book • Step-by-step, easy-tofollow instructions ●Student’s Book answers ●Background information on texts ●Guidelines for how and when to include supplementary material • Ideas for language games in the classroom ●Tapescript for the Student’s Book audio ●Workbook answer key

Teacher's Resource Pack • Photocopiable activities: • – Entry test • – Communicative activities • – Grammar worksheets • – Module tests • – Final test ●Pattern drills ●Teaching notes and answers

Web material • Infoquests at www. cambridge. org/elt/m essages/infoquest ●Downloadable worksheets and Teacher’s guides for Infoquests at www. cambridge. org/elt/m essages/teacherquest ●Downloadable grammar worksheets for weaker learners at • www. cambridge. org/elt/m essages

THE COGNITIVE LINGUA-CULTURAL METHODOLOGY • APPROACHES • METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES • THE CONTENT OF FLT

Competence approach • The transfer from knowledge-centered approach to professional competence approach provides global changes in training qualified creative specialists capable to solve problems in different situations lifelong learning.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN • 1. Reflective approach • 2. Lingua-cultural approach • 3. Cognitive approach • 4. Communicative approach • 5. Competence-based approach • What does anthropological paradigm of education suggest?

Does it reflect the modern methods of teaching FL? • Co-teaching of language and culture. • Intercultural communicative competence – its structural components. • The final goal is the formation of Intercultural Communicative Competence and the formation of the personality of the "subject of intercultural communication"

The following methodological principles integrally reflect the conceptual basis of modern methodology of FL Education: • cognitive, • socio-cultural, communicative personalityand conceptual, centered (or reflexive • lingua-cultural, developing)

The content of FLT: • a) Subject aspect includes: Spheres of communication, Themes, Situations, Problems, Tasks, Texts, Linguistic and linguacultural materials; • b) processional aspect includes: Skills; Exercises; Technologies; • FLL lesson is the main organizational unit of FLT process.

THE INTEGRATE CONCEPT OF THE COMPETENCY MODEL OF MFL EDUCATION METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES COGNITIVE SOCIOCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL-REFLEXIVE CONCEPTUAL

THE STRUCTURE OF THE INTERCULTURAL-COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCY LINGUOCULTUROLOGICAL SUB-COMPETENCY SOCIAL SUB-COMPETENCY COMMUNICATIVE SUBCOMPETENCY INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCY PERSONALITY-CENTRED SUB-COMPETENCY SOCIO-CULTUROLOGICAL SUB-COMPETENCY CONCEPTUAL SUBCOMPETENCY

What’s it about? What can you say about the pictures? Now match the pictures with sentences 1– 4. 1 The sun’s going down and everything looks beautiful. 2 He works in a shop that sells newspapers and food. 3 He’s wearing a hat and coat. 4 We live in a flat on the first floor.

b What about you? Which of the sentences in 1 a are true for you? Work with a friend and tell him/her at least three things about yourself. I don’t come from this country. I was born in. . .