TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandy, Chuck.
AU  - Kelly, Curtis.
TI  - Active Skills for Communication : : Book 2 
SN  - 9781424009091 (Student Book)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Heinle Cengage Learning
KW  - Oral communication
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Interpersonal communication
KW  - Written communication
KW  - English language
N1  - Unit 1 Facebook; Challenge: Designing a personal emblem for someone
; Skills: Greeting people; Sharing personal information
; Fluency: Back-channelling to show you are listening; Language: Interrogatives; Verb phrases; Infinitives; Personal information; Unit 2: Personal Motto; Challenge: Making and explaining a personal motto
Skills; Skills: Expressing opinions and explaining what something means; Fluency: Asking for clarification
; Language: State of being verbs; Adjectives; Prepositions; Unit 3 Tall Tales; Challenge: Telling stories in a true/lie game; Skills: Telling a story
; Fluency: Referring back to something the speaker said; Language: Past progressive tense & Past simple tense; Sequencing expressions; Storytelling expressions; Adjectives; Project 1 : Digital Story; Recycling themes and language from Unit 3; Making a story and presenting it in an electronic format; Unit 4 Keepsakes
; Challenge: Presenting a personal item and explaining why it is special; Skills: Describing the past
; Fluency: Shadowing the speaker's words
; Language: Keepsake items; Time expressions; Past simple tense; Present perfect tense; Present perfect continuous tense; Unit 5 Team Spirit; Challenge: Discussing and presenting ways to develop good relationships
; Skills: Making suggestions to improve the class; Fluency: Disagreeing with someone else's ideas; Language: Plural/singular nouns; Infinitives; Discussion expressions; Unit 6 Hot Sports
; Challenge: Making an advertisement and recommending a business; Skills: Describing likes and dislikes; Fluency: Responding to suggestions; Language: Locations; Adjectives; Gerunds & infinitives; Activities; Project 2 : Radio Ad; Recycling themes and language from Unit 6; Advertising an upcoming event; Unit 7 Class Cookbook; Challenge: Making and explaining an interesting food recipe; Skills: Giving instructions; Fluency: Slowing down the conversation; Language: Cooking related vocabulary; Imperatives; Sequencing expressions; Unit 8 Business Venture
; Challenge: Planning and presenting a new business idea; Skills: Explaining key features of a business; Fluency: Hesitating; Language: Business; Definite or indefinite articles; Business vocabulary; Unit 9 Job Interview; Challenge: Role-playing interviewing someone and being interviewed; Skills: Describing work and experience and abilities; Fluency: 'Mirroring' the speaker; Language: Verb phrases; Some or any; Modals and related expressions; Job related vocabulary; Project 3 : Job Fair; Recycling themes and language from Unit 9; Researching careers and presenting ideas; Unit 10 TV Preview
; Challenge: Performing a trailer for a TV show or movie; Skills: Describing likes and dislikes and what something is about; Fluency: Speaking dramatically; Language: TV show and movie vocabulary; Relative clauses; Adjectives; Unit 11 Public Opinion
; Challenge: Telling a story about a problem and asking classmates what they would do
; Skills: Presenting a story and predicting reaction; Fluency: Introducing opinions
; Language: Gerunds; Hypothetical situations; Reporting results
; Unit 12 Mini Debate; Challenge: Planning a debate issue and debating in small groups; Skills: Expressing opinions, supporting argumentsxxxagreeing and disagreeing; Fluency: Illustrating your point (giving examples); Language: Nobody, somebody, everybody; position statements; Debate issues
; Project 4 : Future plans; Evaluating progress and successes from Unit 12; Self-evaluation and presentation
N2  - "Active skill for Communication is an exciting new three-level series that develop learners' speaking and listening skills. Written by ELT specialists Curtis Kelly and Chuck Sandy, with series consultant Neil J. Anderson, the series uses the ACTIVE approach to help learners become more fluent, confident-and-active speakers of English. Each unit contains easy-to-follow, step-by-step activities that lead towards a major speaking task. The tasks are based on real-life situations and are designed to increase self confidence and foster positive attitudes towards learning English." (Publisher's Website)

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