Cleary, Chris <br/><br/>
Communication Spotlight :  Speaking Strategies and Listening Skills, Pre-Intermediate /  
Chris Cleary. 
 - 1st ed.  
 - San Francisco :  ABAX ELT Publishers,  2006.  
 - 149 p. :  ill. ;   30 cm.   + 1 CD and notebook.  
 - Communication Spotlight .
<br/><br/>"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. 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. Listening: Communication Spotlight gives students practice in extended listening for both gist and for detail in situations related to the speaking tasks and draws student attention to some of the phonological features of spoken English. Listening and Speaking Accuracy: A new feature, Spotlight on Memory, has students concentrate on the structure at the heart of each dialogue. Vocabulary: Communication Spotlight includes a vocabulary notebook for students to record new words and learn different aspects of word use. Situationally-based speaking practice that spotlights strategy. Situationally-based listening practice that spotlights skills, Communication Spotlight. 35-50 hours of classroom material over 18 units on topics chosen to be of maximum interest to students. Engaging. Motivating. Giving students control." (Book cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS: Unit 0: Can I have your name?  Theme/Topic Area: Looking over the course  Listening Features: Weak vowels  Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: classroom English, asking questions Unit 1: How do you spell that?  Theme/Topic Area: Describing school schedules  Listening Features: Linking sounds  Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: classroom English, asking questions Unit 2: I usually get up at six  Theme/Topic Area: Describing your daily routines, expressions of time  Listening Features: Sentence stress  Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repeating key information Unit 3: It's next to the window  Theme/Topic Area: Describing location, objects in a room  Listening Features: Weak vowels  Speaking Strategies: Confirming understanding: asking about meaning Unit 4: That's my cousin  Theme/Topic Area: Describing your family  Listening Features: Blended sounds  Speaking Strategies: Involvement: showing interest REVIEW Unit 5: How was the concert?<br/><br/><br/>  Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the things you did  Listening Features: Disappearing sounds  Speaking Strategies: Using natural spoken English Unit 6: I'm looking for the museum  Theme/Topic Area: Giving directions  Listening Features: Guessing meaning through patterns  Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: shadowing Unit 7: How much was it?  Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with money and prices  Listening Features: Sentence stress and word stress  Speaking Strategies: Management: hesitation devices, thinking sounds Unit 8: Are you gonna go to France?  Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the future, vacation plans  Listening Features: Casual English: gonna, wanta, gotta  Speaking Strategies: Confirming understanding: yes/no questions Unit 9: What does your brother do?  Theme/Topic Area: Describing occupations  Listening Features: Disappearing sounds and syllables  Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking for help REVIEW Unit 10: It's east of Seattle<br/><br/>  Theme/Topic Area: Describing cities, introducing your hometown  Listening Features: Sentence stress and weak vowels  Speaking Strategies: Confirmation: repetition Unit 11: Are you waiting in line?  Theme/Topic Area: Building conversations  Listening Features: Guessing meaning through patterns  Speaking Strategies: Involvement: responding with comments Unit 12: So, how was your trip?  Theme/Topic Area: Story telling  Listening Features: Disappearing sounds, weak vowels  Speaking Strategies: Involvement: backchanneling Unit 13: What's the population?  Theme/Topic Area: Fluency with large numbers  Listening Features: Understanding tone groups  Speaking Strategies: Management: asking for repetition REVIEW Unit 14: What do you call it?  Theme/Topic Area: Describing objects  Listening Features: Disappearing sounds, linking sounds  Speaking Strategies: Compensation: circumlocution Unit 15: Tickets to the game  Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the immediate future  Listening Features: Casual English  Speaking Strategies: Management: hesitation devices, thinking sounds Unit 16: When I was in school...  Theme/Topic Area: Talking about past experiences, talking about school  Listening Features: Linking sounds  Compensation: paraphrasing and other strategies Unit 17: I've worked here for three weeks  Theme/Topic Area: Talking about the recent past  Listening Features: Casual English  Speaking Strategies: Involvement: elaboration Unit 18: When do classes start?  Theme/Topic Area: Asking for information  Listening Features: Guessing meaning through pattern  Speaking Strategies: Compensation: asking wh- and yes/no questions REVIEW<br/> Split Task Resources Scripts 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781896942193 (Student Book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Foreign speakers<br/>English language--Problems and exercises--Speaking and Listening <br/>English language--Audio aid--Speaking and Listening