Roger Barnard

Pre-Intermediate

Good News, Bad News is a listening and conversation text based on an entertaining collection of actual news reports about interesting characters and events. Eighteen three-page units are presented in a radio news-story format. All units feature a series of task-based activities designed to guide students from general to detailed understanding of the news report and to provide meaningful fluency practice related to the story's theme.

Good News, Bad News features:

• Short, focused units that can be completed in one class period
• Interesting, light-hearted listening passages based on actual stories from the news
• Vocabulary-building exercises that introduce and practice new vocabulary
• A wide variety of communicative, task-based listening and speaking activities
• An optional "Extra Practice" section to consolidate new vocabulary

• "Tuning In," a visual activity designed to introduce the context of the story. It offers a vocabulary building exercise to identify and teach the new language contained in the listening passage.
  
• "Good News, Bad News," a series of task-based listening activities that leads students from general to detailed understanding of the story
  
• "Signing Off," communicative speaking tasks that build on the theme of the story and provides opportunities for student personalization
  
• "Extra Practice" activities to consolidate the new vocabulary in each unit

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Word Power Made Easy (Norman Lewis)
* Do You Always Use the Right Word?
* Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?
* Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?
* Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?
If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.
Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

* Warning signs and first aid items
* Safe use of tools and machinery
* Health and ergonomics
* Safety information on labels and tags

An accessible picture-dictionary format introduces vocabulary and helps students recognize even complicated or technical terms and relate them to their own workplace.
Practice and application activities link core vocabulary with related terms and phrases. Flexible format allows learners to relate what they learn to personal experience and create their own workplace-specific safety vocabulary lists.

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