The Big Picture: B1 Intermediate Workbook - Acompanha Cd-rom

"""The Big Picture"" reflects the key issues in the world today which are immediately relevant to the learners’ worlds and experiences with striking real world images. These images provide a fresh, contemporary look and are at the centre of tasks, en cou raging learners to work with and interpret them. Carefully structured discussion tasks encourage personalization, localization, and critical thinking, and complete functional language lessons develop conversation strategies and are applied to st u dent s’ immediate world experience. Key Features Up-to-date, real-life, relevant contexts ground tasks and content in students’ own world, allowing them to personalize and localize material. Language focus on real, useful language and high-frequen cy expr essions, and are text, topic, and context driven. Functional Language and Final Task sections bring together the smaller pieces to help students see “the big picture” via practical, real-life tasks. A strong, systematic vocabulary building st rand f ocuses on both lexical fields and vocabulary systems. Notice boxes draw attention to generative patterns and the living/changing nature of language. Avoidance/challenging of stereotypes – intercultural awareness foregrounded, e.g. inclusi on of situ ations where no native speakers are present (as models for tasks). A move away from traditional UK and USA settings to more global contexts. An emphasis on “global English”, with a wide variety of non-native and non-standard accents in t he audio pr ogram. Inclusion of different text types from the ELT norm – new genres (e.g. blog posts), literary texts, signs, etc. "