"Communication Spotlight: Speaking Strategies and Listening Skills, Pre-Intermediate is the third book in the four-level Communication Spotlight series. These are two-skill, speaking and listening texts aimed at adult and young adult, elementary through intermediate level learners of American English. (CEFR A1 through B2)

Speaking: Communication Spotlight introduces students to the strategies of speaking: the strategies we use to confirm or clarify what we're saying and what we're hearing, the strategies we use to show interest in and to maintain and develop conversations, the strategies we use that help with fluency and the strategies we may use to compensate for a lack of language - in sum, the strategies that work to give students control in communicative situations, strategies which help students use their existing English skill set with greater finesse.

Listening: Communication Spotlight helps students to develop a critically important ear for English. Each unit features a Spotlight on Listening section which draws student attention to natural English as it is actually spoken. Students are given many practice opportunities to listen to and comprehend extended texts of natural English.

Listening and Speaking Accuracy: A new feature, Spotlight on Memory, has students concentrate on the structure at the heart of each unit, and in doing so, helps students extend their short-term memory capacities.

Vocabulary: Communication Spotlight includes a vocabulary notes section for students to record and review new words, fostering learner autonomy.

30-40 hours of classroom material. 15 units on topics of everyday interest." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

UNIT 0: What's your name? Theme/Topic Area: Looking over the course Listening Features: Linking Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: classroom English, asking questions

UNIT 1: I like action movies Theme/Topic Area: Talking about likes and dislikes Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: asking for repetition

UNIT 2: How much is that?

Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with money and prices Listening Features: Weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: asking questions

UNIT 3: Is that your cousin? Theme/Topic Area: Describing your family Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repeating key information

UNIT 4: How was your weekend? Theme/Topic Area: Talking about things you did Listening Features: Disappearing Speaking Strategies: Involvement: asking questions

UNIT 5: What do you do?
Theme/Topic Area: Describing occupations Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Clarification: using examples

UNIT 6: I get to work at eight
Theme/Topic Area: Describing your daily routines Listening Features: Weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repeating key information

UNIT 7: It's in front of the lamp Theme/Topic Area: Describing location, objects in a room Listening Features: Guessing meaning through patterns Speaking Strategies: Shadowing

REVIEW 1

UNIT 8: I liked science in school Theme/Topic Area: Talking about school subjects you liked Listening Features: Blended sounds Speaking Strategies: Paraphrasing

UNIT 9: It's easy to make!
Theme/Topic Area: Giving instructions, describing how to cook Listening Features: Weak vowels Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking for help & circumlocution

UNIT 10: What are you doing? Theme/Topic Area: Describing current actions Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repetition & paraphrasing

UNIT 11: What are you going to do?
Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the future Listening Features: Casual English: gonna Speaking Strategies: Involvement: asking questions

UNIT 12: It's red in the middle

Theme/Topic Area: Describing foods, fruits and vegetables Listening Features: Sentence stress Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking for help & circumlocution

UNIT 13: How long is it? Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with large numbers Listening Features: Understanding tone groups Speaking Strategies: Management: hesitation devices, thinking sounds

UNIT 14: Turn right at the lights

Theme/Topic Area: Giving directions describing neighborhoods Listening Features: Vowel - vowel intrusion Speaking Strategies: Shadowing

UNIT 15: What time does class start?
Theme/Topic Area: Asking for information Listening Features: Blended sounds Speaking Strategies: Asking about meaning

REVIEW 2

Theme/Topic Area: Review
Listening Features: Review
Speaking Strategies: Review

Split Task Resources

Scripts

Vocabulary Notes

Intended for English language learners at the level A2 (CEFR).