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020 _a9781447961437 (Coursebook)
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100 1 _aCotton, David
245 1 0 _aNew Language Leader : Advanced /
_cDavid Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent, Ian Lebeau, and Gareth Rees.
260 _aWhite Plains, NY :
_bPearson Education,
_c2015.
300 _a184 p. :
_bill. ;
_c30 cm.
440 _aNew Language Leader
505 _aConsolidate students' knowledge of English with the New Language Leader Coursebook. Each of the 12 units covers essential content and English skills - grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, study skills and writing - all presented by means of contemporary topics that will catch students' interest.
505 _aA stimulating way to practice
_tThe Coursebook offers a variety of material on contemporary issues that will help students negotiate academic life successfully.
_tScenarios give students the opportunity to apply language in real-life situations and develop valuable communication skills.
_tStudy Skills sections, with videos, provide useful tips and training for a successful academic life.
_tMeet the Expert videos develop listening skills and provide inspiring topics for discussion.
505 _aBe ready for university entrance tests
_tExam practice is embedded in each unit to prepare students for high-stakes tests such as IELTS and PTE Academic. This makes the New Language Leader Coursebook the ideal material to ensure students' success." (Publisher's Website)
505 _aCONTENTS
505 _aUnit 1 – EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
505 _aGRAMMAR: The continuous aspect - The perfect aspect
505 _aVOCABULARY: Issues in education - Reporting what others say - Suffixes (adjectives) - Abbreviations
505 _aREADING: An article about role learning in the digital age - Profiles of three successful people - A CV - Evaluating effectiveness
505 _aLISTENING: A radio programme about education - Reacting to the text - A job interview
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing education - The qualities of successful people - Jobs and CVs
505 _aSCENARIO: Choosing an intern
_tKey language: Stating requirements, saying what is essential and desirable
_tTask: Choosing an intern
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Justifying opinions - A CV
_tStudy skills: Self-awareness
_tWriting skills: A covering letter
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Helen Kempster, a career consultant, about job hunting and interviews
505 _aUnit 2 – TOURISM AND CONSERVATION
505 _aGRAMMAR: Past simple - Present perfect simple & past simple
505 _aVOCABULARY: Travel collocations - Multi-word verbs - The natural world
505 _aREADING: Holiday brochure extracts - Analysing a genre - A text about the Galapagos islands - An article about the perfect beach - Evaluating advantages and disadvantages
505 _aLISTENING: An interview with the director of a conservation charity - Predicting
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Important factors for tourists - Specialised tourism - Discussing threats to the natural and built environment - Talk about the rules at a beach
505 _aSCENARIO: Granville Island
_tKey language: Stating your position, clarifying
_tTask: Participating in a meeting
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A notice of rules for a beach
_tStudy skills: Planning and organising essays
_tWriting skills: A problem-solution essay
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Noirin Hegarty from Lonely Planet, about the work of a travel publisher
505 _aUnit 3 – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
505 _aGRAMMAR: Subordinate clauses - Modal perfect
505 _aVOCABULARY: Adjectives of character - Word sets – Abbreviations – Prioritising - International relations
505 _aREADING: An article about national traits - An article about CERN - Extracts from interviews with ambassadors
505 _aLISTENING: A radio interview with an ambassador’s partner - Inferring attitude
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing stereotypes - Reflecting on your culture - Discussing international collaboration - Making criticisms
505 _aSCENARIO: The oil spill crisis
_tKey language: Stating objectives, giving strong advice
_tTask: Devising an action plan
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Using subordinate clauses
_tStudy skills: Active listening
_tWriting skills: A speech
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Brendan Paddy from the Disasters Emergency Committee, about international aid
505 _aUnit 4 – HEALTH AND CARE
505 _aGRAMMAR: Cohesion 1 (linkers) - Future forms with be
505 _aVOCABULARY: Health collocations – Healthcare - The language of emotion
505 _aREADING: An article about health and happiness - An article about healthcare spending - An article about nursing - Evaluating contrasting arguments - Replies to the article
505 _aLISTENING: A speech about healthcare provision - Identifying the author’s purpose - A speech by a VIP at a graduation ceremony for nurses
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Taking about health and fitness - Discussing health quotes - Discussing spending on healthcare - Describe and evaluate the healthcare system in your country - Working in healthcare
505 _aSCENARIO: Change your ways
_tKey language: Justifying opinions
_tTask: Choosing and planning a publicity campaign
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: An essay about the healthcare system in your country
_tStudy skills: Analysing visual information
_tWriting skills: Describing visual information
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Neil Shah, Director of the Stress Management Society
505 _aUnit 5 – FASHION AND CONSUMERISM
505 _aGRAMMAR: Future in the past - Emphatic structures – Inversion - Cleft sentences
505 _aVOCABULARY: Consumer collocations - Compound adjectives formed with nouns - Suffixes (nouns 1)
505 _aREADING: The introduction to a radio series - An article about an iconic car - Combining sources of information - Headlines and article extracts about controversies in the fashion industry
505 _aLISTENING: An extract from a radio programme about Japan - Expanding the topic - A radio programme about fashion and social responsibility - Identifying support for main argument
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: A debate about materialism - Talking about design classics - Debating topics related to the fashion industry
505 _aSCENARIO: Retail revamp
_tKey language: Discussing hypothetical ideas
_tTask: Developing a recovery strategy
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A description of one of your possessions
_tStudy skills: Reading complex texts effectively
_tWriting skills: Summarising
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: interview with fashion designers Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, about their company Cutecircuit
505 _aUnit 6 – TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE
505 _aGRAMMAR: The passive - Complex noun phrases
505 _aVOCABULARY: Describing technology - Collocations
505 _aREADING: A quiz about technology - Message board texts about technology - Analysing style - Texts about innovators in technology - Considering consequences - An article about DNA testing - Identifying advantages and disadvantages
505 _aLISTENING: A presentation - A question and answer session
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about advances in technology - Talking about technological change - Discussing DNA testing
505 _aSCENARIO: A radio debate
_tKey language: Persuading, criticising, accepting criticism, offering counter-arguments
_tTask: Participating in a debate
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A message board text about technological advances - Improving written texts
_tStudy skills: Intercultural awareness
_tWriting skills: Reporting a survey
505 _aVIDEO: Study Skills Video: a talk about studying in another country
505 _aUnit 7 – PEOPLE AND IDEAS
505 _aGRAMMAR: Quantifiers - Conditionals
505 _aVOCABULARY: Idioms with hand - Expressions of quantity - Irregular plurals
505 _aREADING: An article about left-handed people - Applying ideas from the text - Texts about four great thinkers - Texts about good ideas
505 _aLISTENING: A lecture about creativity - A radio programme about Keynes and Aristotle - Evaluating a summary
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about creative and lateral thinking - Thinking of new uses for everyday objects - Talking about great thinkers - Identifying outcomes
505 _aSCENARIO: Camomila
_tKey language: Approving ideas, expressing doubt/objections
_tTask: A new plan for Camomila
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING:
_tStudy skills: Critical thinking
_tWriting skills: An opinion-led essay
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Mairi Ryan from the Royal Society of Arts, about their public events programme
505 _aUnit 8 – JOURNALISM AND MEDIA
505 _aGRAMMAR: Verb patterns - Prepositional verbs
505 _aVOCABULARY: The media
505 _aREADING: Newspaper headlines - An article by journalist Simon Jenkins – Predicting - A transcript of a talk about an astronaut
505 _aLISTENING: Six people talking about their jobs - Justifying choices - A journalist talking to students - A talk about an astronaut - Five people talking about media
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about the media - Discussing headlines for a news programme - Talking about journalism - Talking about social media - Discussing the effectiveness of media - Evaluating effectiveness
505 _aSCENARIO: Sailing close to the wind
_tKey language: Being cautious
_tTask: Resolving ethical dilemmas
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING:
_tStudy skills: Style and register
_tWriting skills: Formal, neutral and informal emails
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Dr Nell Haynes, an anthropologist, about the impact of social media
505 _aUnit 9 – LAW AND SOCIETY
505 _aGRAMMAR: Adverbs of degree - Reporting using nouns
505 _aVOCABULARY: Idiomatic verb phrases - Justice systems - Noun conversion
505 _aREADING: A book introduction - Identifying claims - Two approaches to juvenile delinquency - Two poems - Interpreting poetic language
505 _aLISTENING: Five extracts from a book - A talk on teenagers - Evaluating with criteria - A talk about international migration
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about social issues - Talking about juvenile crime and punishment - Talking about migration
505 _aSCENARIO: Lawmakers
_tKey language: Balancing an argument
_tTask: Amending and modifying the law
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing about migration - Write a poem
_tStudy skills: Synthesising information
_tWriting skills: A synthesis
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Nik Peachey, an educational consultant about body language in different cultures
505 _aUnit 10 – ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
505 _aGRAMMAR: Non-finite clauses - Conversational English
505 _aVOCABULARY: Performance reviews - Academic verbs
505 _aREADING: Reviews from a listings page - A press release about the Recycled Orchestra - Understanding and responding to vocabulary choices - Extracts about technology and media - Identifying and evaluating main points
505 _aLISTENING: Interviews with people who attended events - Musical extracts - A webcast about using the internet
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about the popularity of the arts - Describing an event - Discussing music - How music changes lives - Discussing technology and entertainment
505 _aSCENARIO: Global village
_tKey language: An informal talk
_tTask: Informal presentation
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A review for an event - A press release for a concert
_tStudy skills: Seminar/Discussion skills
_tWriting skills: Critical reflective writing
505 _aVIDEO: Study Skills Video: a seminar about the language of drama
505 _aUnit 11 – BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
505 _aGRAMMAR: Alternatives to if - Phrasal verbs
505 _aVOCABULARY: Business and economic terms - Confusing words - Suffixes (nouns 2)
505 _aREADING: Stories from the business pages - An article about Fairtrade - Negotiating tips
505 _aLISTENING: A radio programme about microfinance
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about successful businesses - Deciding and justifying priorities - Talking about Fairtrade - Evaluating evidence - Talking about negotiating, considering alternative views
505 _aSCENARIO: Saving lives at sea
_tKey language: Setting the agenda, responding to offers
_tTask: Negotiating a contract
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A summary of a budget - The first paragraph of an essay about microfinance
_tStudy skills: Making a business presentation, introduction, conclusion
_tWriting skills: A tactful business email
505 _aVIDEO: Study Skills Video: a presentation about the launch of a new product
505 _aUnit 12 – SCIENCE AND NATURE
505 _aGRAMMAR: Cohesion 2 (substitution) - Nominalisation
505 _aVOCABULARY: Geological terms - Informal phrases - Collective nouns
505 _aREADING: An article about life on Mars - Distinguishing fact from opinion - A text about plastic - Evaluating arguments - A blurb and extracts from a book - Understanding persuasive techniques
505 _aLISTENING: Three people talk about setting up a human colony on Mars - A podcast about plastic
505 _aSPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about space exploration and setting up a human colony on Mars - Reducing the consumption of plastic - Talking about insects and food production
505 _aSCENARIO: Ask the panel
_tKey language: Referring to what other people have said
_tTask: Taking part in a panel discussion
505 _aSTUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing about setting up a human colony on Mars - Writing about reducing consumption of plastic
_tStudy skills: Examination skills
_tWriting skills: A personal statement
505 _aVIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with professors Richard Kitney and Paul Freemont, about synthetic biology
505 _aLanguage reference
505 _aMeet the Expert
505 _aCommunication Activities
505 _aAudioscripts
505 _aIrregular Verb List
505 _aPhonetic Charts
521 _aLevel: High-Intermediate to Advanced (B2+-C1)
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xExams
_xQuestions.
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xVocabulary
_xProblems and exercises.
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xGrammar
_xProblems and exercises.
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xPronunciation
_xExercises.
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xTextbooks for foreign speakers.
650 7 _aTerminology
_xEnglish
_xProblems and exercises.
650 7 _aLanguage examinations.
650 7 _aB2+-C1 (CEFR).
650 7 _aHigh-intermediate to Advanced.
700 1 _aFalvey, David
700 1 _aKent, Simon
700 1 _aLebeau, Ian
700 1 _aRees, Gareth
856 _uhttps://pearsonerpi.com/fr/elt/eap/new-language-leader-advanced-coursebook-796143
_zPublisher's Website.
856 _uhttp://english.com/languageleader/
_zCompanion Website.
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