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CHANGING SKIES
Author:
Alan Pulverness
A one-level
course for advanced-level learners, dealing with current issues within
a European context.
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A totally new experience for advanced-level learners who want to extend their language flexibility and use it for personal responses to a range of current political, economic and social issues. |
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Each of the twelve units opens with an authentic text from a variety of sources. These texts are then used as a basis for the grammar, vocabulary and language skills which are developed throughout the unit. |
Changing Skies is designed
to provide
material for 60-80 hours' work.
CHANGING SKIES
Changing Skies provides a totally new experience for advanced-level learners, combining cross-cultural reflection, detailed language work, and the development of advanced reading and writing strategies.
Topics include:
- Exile and Emigration
- Nationality and Nationalism
- Borders
- The Idea of Europe
- Globalisation…
These topics, and others such as Style and Fashion, Working Abroad and Travelling, have been chosen to provide people at the end of secondary school and university with opportunities for a personal response to a range of relevant political, economic and social issues. Cultural identity is an underlying theme of the whole course.
Changing Skies contains 12 flexible units, each opening with an authentic text from a variety of sources and followed by a range of detailed language activities.
The cassette provides authentic and scripted material to help develop extensive and intensive listening skills.
Student Book: ISBN 1 901760 08 1
Teacher's Book: ISBN 1 901760 09 X
Cassette: ISBN 1 90176010 3
Changing Skies is published by Swan Communication and distributed by Delta Publishing outside Hungary and the Czech Republic.
