E-05.01 Get Into Oral-Skills Instructional Approaches (While Asking & Giving Directions)

English in Everyday Life: Getting There  WorkLife English: Competency-Based Listening/Speaking Book 2.  Tapescript  10 + 2 = 12 pp Who It’s For: American-English (Teachers & Helpers of) High Beginning to Intermediate Students About to (Re-)Start a Course of Oral-Language-Skills Development Why It’s Useful: All ten Chapters of  WorkLife English: A Competency-Based Listening/Speaking Book 2: English in Everyday Life have the same format.  After a Chapter Opener listing Competencies & Grammar comes a Vocabulary preview.  Part One / Better Listening provides model conversation on the Chapter Theme. It helps text users develop proficiency in Strategies such as Getting Main Ideas, Listening for Stressed Words, Tolerating Ambiguity.  Part Two / Pronunciation is built around features like Sounds in Contrast, Word Stress, & Intonation. Part Three / Listening & Speaking Skills offers various Listening Tasks & Oral Activities. There’s a section called “Words in Fast Speech.”