Catalog: Engleza: Cambridge: Adult: Touchstone

Touchstone

McCarthy/McCarten/Sandiford
Beginning to Intermediate

Touchstone is an innovative new series for adult and young-adult learners of English. It draws on extensive research into the Cambridge International Corpus of North American English - a large database of everyday conversations and texts that shows how people actually use English. At the core of Touchstone is a brand-new syllabus area of conversation management strategies such as how to start and end conversations, how to show interest, and how to ask questions that are not too direct. The result is a groundbreaking course of language and skills development that helps learners communicate naturally and effectively, even at the very beginning levels.

Key Features:

 * Conversation strategies present common techniques that people use to manage conversations. These help learners interact naturally and effectively.
* In Conversation panels present interesting facts about how vocabulary and grammar are typically used in conversation.
* Grammar is presented in natural contexts, with inductive tasks that develop language awareness.
* Vocabulary Notebook pages provide practical tips and activities on different ways to record and remember new vocabulary.
* Personalized speaking practice is integrated with all language and skills activities.
* Listening passages are taken from real-life contexts.
* Reading activities lead to realistic, contemporary writing tasks.

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