"Communication Spotlight: Speaking Strategies and Listening Skills, Pre-Intermediate is the third book in the four-level Communication Spotlight series. These are two-skill, speaking and listening texts aimed at adult and young adult, elementary through intermediate level learners of American English.

Speaking: Communication Spotlight introduces students to the strategies of speaking: the strategies we use to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing, the strategies we use to show interest in and to maintain and develop conversations, the strategies we use that help with fluency and the strategies we may use to compensate for a lack of language - in sum, the strategies that work to give students control in communicative situations.

Listening: Communication Spotlight gives students practice in extended listening for both gist and for detail in situations related to the speaking tasks and draws student attention to some of the phonological features of spoken English.

Listening and Speaking Accuracy: A new feature, Spotlight on Memory, has students concentrate on the structure at the heart of each dialogue.

Vocabulary: Communication Spotlight includes a vocabulary notebook for students to record new words and learn different aspects of word use.

Situationally-based speaking practice that spotlights strategy. Situationally-based listening practice that spotlights skills, Communication Spotlight.

35-50 hours of classroom material over 18 units on topics chosen to be of maximum interest to students.

Engaging. Motivating. Giving students control." (Book cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Unit 0: Can I have your name? Theme/Topic Area: Looking over the course Listening Features: Weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: classroom English, asking questions

Unit 1: How do you spell that? Theme/Topic Area: Describing school schedules Listening Features: Linking sounds Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: classroom English, asking questions

Unit 2: I usually get up at six Theme/Topic Area: Describing your daily routines, expressions of time Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repeating key information

Unit 3: It's next to the window Theme/Topic Area: Describing location, objects in a room Listening Features: Weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Confirming understanding: asking about meaning

Unit 4: That's my cousin Theme/Topic Area: Describing your family Listening Features: Blended sounds Speaking Strategies: Involvement: showing interest

REVIEW

Unit 5: How was the concert?


Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the things you did Listening Features: Disappearing sounds Speaking Strategies: Using natural spoken English

Unit 6: I'm looking for the museum Theme/Topic Area: Giving directions Listening Features: Guessing meaning through patterns Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: shadowing

Unit 7: How much was it? Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with money and prices Listening Features: Sentence stress and word stress Speaking Strategies: Management: hesitation devices, thinking sounds

Unit 8: Are you gonna go to France? Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the future, vacation plans Listening Features: Casual English: gonna, wanta, gotta Speaking Strategies: Confirming understanding: yes/no questions

Unit 9: What does your brother do? Theme/Topic Area: Describing occupations Listening Features: Disappearing sounds and syllables Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking for help

REVIEW

Unit 10: It's east of Seattle

Theme/Topic Area: Describing cities, introducing your hometown Listening Features: Sentence stress and weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repetition

Unit 11: Are you waiting in line? Theme/Topic Area: Building conversations Listening Features: Guessing meaning through patterns Speaking Strategies: Involvement: responding with comments

Unit 12: So, how was your trip? Theme/Topic Area: Story telling Listening Features: Disappearing sounds, weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Involvement: backchanneling

Unit 13: What's the population? Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with large numbers Listening Features: Understanding tone groups Speaking Strategies: Management: asking for repetition

REVIEW

Unit 14: What do you call it? Theme/Topic Area: Describing objects Listening Features: Disappearing sounds, linking sounds Speaking Strategies: Compensation: circumlocution

Unit 15: Tickets to the game Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the immediate future Listening Features: Casual English Speaking Strategies: Management: hesitation devices, thinking sounds

Unit 16: When I was in school... Theme/Topic Area: Talking about past experiences, talking about school Listening Features: Linking sounds Compensation: paraphrasing and other strategies

Unit 17: I've worked here for three weeks Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the recent past Listening Features: Casual English Speaking Strategies: Involvement: elaboration

Unit 18: When do classes start? Theme/Topic Area: Asking for information Listening Features: Guessing meaning through pattern Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking wh- and yes/no questions

REVIEW

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