Foundations Grammar 1.
Foundations Grammar 1.
Foundations Writing Skills 2 Intermediate Level
FOUNDATIONS WRITING SKILLS is a two-level, self-contained course in writing English aimed at elementary and intermediate level Arab students. The course guides students step-by-step towards writing simple and accurate paragraphs, paying close attention to sentence structure, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, guided paragraph writing and the process of writing.
Continuous graded practice is provided through a variety of exercise types such as reading comprehension, gap-fill, table completion, the correction of passages and the writing of sentences and paragraphs using pictures and tabular information. All exercises are based on realistic topics and content and language functions, useful in real life situations. Places from various Arab countries are commonly mentioned, but the locale should be unimportant for the comprehension of the model compositions, and students will substitute their own environments in their writing.
The book is divided into ten units. Each unit is subdivided into six sections: model composition, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, sentence-joining, guided paragraphs, and the process of writing.
All model compositions focus on certain purposes for writing, such as narrating and describing, and certain means of organizing ideas such as chronological and spatial ordering. The assumptions here are that even on an elementary level there is more to composing than mere sentence-level exercises and that English learners can understand and use sophisticated principles and techniques of English
compositions writing without waiting until they are more fully fluent in English.
Foundations Writing Skills 2 Intermediate Level
FOUNDATIONS WRITING SKILLS is a two-level, self-contained course in writing English aimed at elementary and intermediate level Arab students. The course guides students step-by-step towards writing simple and accurate paragraphs, paying close attention to sentence structure, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, guided paragraph writing and the process of writing.
Continuous graded practice is provided through a variety of exercise types such as reading comprehension, gap-fill, table completion, the correction of passages and the writing of sentences and paragraphs using pictures and tabular information. All exercises are based on realistic topics and content and language functions, useful in real life situations. Places from various Arab countries are commonly mentioned, but the locale should be unimportant for the comprehension of the model compositions, and students will substitute their own environments in their writing.
The book is divided into ten units. Each unit is subdivided into six sections: model composition, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, sentence-joining, guided paragraphs, and the process of writing.
All model compositions focus on certain purposes for writing, such as narrating and describing, and certain means of organizing ideas such as chronological and spatial ordering. The assumptions here are that even on an elementary level there is more to composing than mere sentence-level exercises and that English learners can understand and use sophisticated principles and techniques of English
compositions writing without waiting until they are more fully fluent in English.
Foundations: Writng Skills 1, Elementary Level
FOUNDATIONS WRITING SKILLS is a two-level, self-contained course in writing English aimed at elementary and intermediate level Arab students. The course guides students step-by-step towards writing simple and accurate paragraphs, paying close attention to sentence structure, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, guided paragraph writing and the process of writing.
Continuous graded practice is provided through a variety of exercise types such as reading comprehension, gap-fill, table completion, the correction of passages and the writing of sentences and paragraphs using pictures and tabular information. All exercises are based on realistic topics and content and language functions, useful in real life situations. Places from various Arab countries are commonly mentioned, but the locale should be unimportant for the comprehension of the model compositions, and students will substitute their own environments in their writing.
The book is divided into ten units. Each unit is subdivided into six sections: model composition, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, sentence-joining, guided paragraphs, and the process of writing.
All model compositions focus on certain purposes for writing, such as narrating and describing, and certain means of organizing ideas such as chronological and spatial ordering. The assumptions here are that even on an elementary level there is more to composing than mere sentence-level exercises and that English learners can understand and use sophisticated principles and techniques of English compositions writing without waiting until they are more fully fluent in English
Foundations: Writng Skills 1, Elementary Level
FOUNDATIONS WRITING SKILLS is a two-level, self-contained course in writing English aimed at elementary and intermediate level Arab students. The course guides students step-by-step towards writing simple and accurate paragraphs, paying close attention to sentence structure, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, guided paragraph writing and the process of writing.
Continuous graded practice is provided through a variety of exercise types such as reading comprehension, gap-fill, table completion, the correction of passages and the writing of sentences and paragraphs using pictures and tabular information. All exercises are based on realistic topics and content and language functions, useful in real life situations. Places from various Arab countries are commonly mentioned, but the locale should be unimportant for the comprehension of the model compositions, and students will substitute their own environments in their writing.
The book is divided into ten units. Each unit is subdivided into six sections: model composition, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics, sentence-joining, guided paragraphs, and the process of writing.
All model compositions focus on certain purposes for writing, such as narrating and describing, and certain means of organizing ideas such as chronological and spatial ordering. The assumptions here are that even on an elementary level there is more to composing than mere sentence-level exercises and that English learners can understand and use sophisticated principles and techniques of English compositions writing without waiting until they are more fully fluent in English
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Elementary Level, First Edition
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Elementary Level, is the first in a series of English language texts designed for use in engineering and technology colleges, institutes, and adult English-language training programmes. This volume consists of eight units, and each unit is divided into two main parts. The units are organized around selected rhetorical functions: general ideas, specific information, classification, defining, chronological order, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and processes and procedures. The book is aimed at Arab students who are at an elementary level of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Each unit proceeds from listening at sentence level to listening to a short passage, and aims at developing students’ skills in listening in engineering and technical English. Prelistening and postlistening activities are included in each unit. The book is accompanied by one audio CD.
Organization of Units
Each of the eight units consists of the following sections:
- Before Listening
Some questions to discuss orally in order to give learners an idea of the subject
matter and prepare them for listening. This is also developed by pictures relevant
to the topic of the unit.
- Vocabulary Preview
A list of key vocabulary items that are undefined in the listening. They are briefly
defined in the preview and are accompanied by sentences with missing words to
be filled in.
- Listening
The listening passages are read by a variety of native speakers of English. The
vocabulary, structure, content variation, redundancy, and rhetorical style of each
passage have been carefully chosen and designed.
iv
Preface
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on listening skills as related to the
rhetorical function being focused on. These include, among other skills and
strategies, making an outline, which is partially completed in order to lay out the
rhetorical structure of the talk.
- After Listening
Written exercises focusing on the specific rhetorical function being examined in
order to help the listener reconstruct important information from the talk.
Rationale for the Course Design
Listening to sentence-level material and short passages trains elementary
students in listening skills relevant to the rhetorical functions.
Materials are controlled for concept-recycling. Each passage contains a
limited number of ideas that the listener hopefully retains. Support for these key
ideas (that is, recycling) comes in the form of rewordings, examples, clear transition
markers, and summarizing.
Because of the graded use of language within the talks, learners acquire
the ability to process spoken language for increasingly longer spans of time - a
highly desirable target.
In order to ensure a high degree of comprehension of the passage, a
large percentage of content words need to be readily understood. The topics
chosen for the talks have, therefore, been made as tangible as possible, with the
vocabulary kept within an elementary-level word-frequency range.
Finally, an important skill for students is note-taking, by which they
spot the main points of a talk and write them down in note form. These notes
help the listener to remember the main points of the talk. Note-taking is an individual
activity, so one person may have difficulty understanding another person's notes.
The activities in this book should help a student learn to take down clearer, more
concise notes. In further activities, the learner is often asked to complete the
partial notes given.
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Elementary Level, First Edition
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Elementary Level, is the first in a series of English language texts designed for use in engineering and technology colleges, institutes, and adult English-language training programmes. This volume consists of eight units, and each unit is divided into two main parts. The units are organized around selected rhetorical functions: general ideas, specific information, classification, defining, chronological order, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and processes and procedures. The book is aimed at Arab students who are at an elementary level of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Each unit proceeds from listening at sentence level to listening to a short passage, and aims at developing students’ skills in listening in engineering and technical English. Prelistening and postlistening activities are included in each unit. The book is accompanied by one audio CD.
Organization of Units
Each of the eight units consists of the following sections:
- Before Listening
Some questions to discuss orally in order to give learners an idea of the subject
matter and prepare them for listening. This is also developed by pictures relevant
to the topic of the unit.
- Vocabulary Preview
A list of key vocabulary items that are undefined in the listening. They are briefly
defined in the preview and are accompanied by sentences with missing words to
be filled in.
- Listening
The listening passages are read by a variety of native speakers of English. The
vocabulary, structure, content variation, redundancy, and rhetorical style of each
passage have been carefully chosen and designed.
iv
Preface
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on listening skills as related to the
rhetorical function being focused on. These include, among other skills and
strategies, making an outline, which is partially completed in order to lay out the
rhetorical structure of the talk.
- After Listening
Written exercises focusing on the specific rhetorical function being examined in
order to help the listener reconstruct important information from the talk.
Rationale for the Course Design
Listening to sentence-level material and short passages trains elementary
students in listening skills relevant to the rhetorical functions.
Materials are controlled for concept-recycling. Each passage contains a
limited number of ideas that the listener hopefully retains. Support for these key
ideas (that is, recycling) comes in the form of rewordings, examples, clear transition
markers, and summarizing.
Because of the graded use of language within the talks, learners acquire
the ability to process spoken language for increasingly longer spans of time - a
highly desirable target.
In order to ensure a high degree of comprehension of the passage, a
large percentage of content words need to be readily understood. The topics
chosen for the talks have, therefore, been made as tangible as possible, with the
vocabulary kept within an elementary-level word-frequency range.
Finally, an important skill for students is note-taking, by which they
spot the main points of a talk and write them down in note form. These notes
help the listener to remember the main points of the talk. Note-taking is an individual
activity, so one person may have difficulty understanding another person's notes.
The activities in this book should help a student learn to take down clearer, more
concise notes. In further activities, the learner is often asked to complete the
partial notes given.
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Intermediate Level, First Edition
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Intermediate Level, is the second in a series of English language texts designed for use in engineering and technology colleges, institutes, and adult English-language training programmes. This volume consists of eight units, and each unit is divided into two main parts. The units are organized around selected rhetorical functions: general ideas, specific information, classification, defining, chronological order, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and processes and procedures. The book is aimed at Arab students who are at an intermediate level of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Each unit proceeds from listening at sentence level to listening to a short passage, and aims at developing students’ skills in listening in engineering and technical English. Prelistening and postlistening activities are included in each unit. The book is accompanied by one audio DVD.
Organization of Units
Each of the eight units consists of the following sections:
- Before Listening
Some questions to discuss orally in order to give learners an idea of the subject matter
and prepare them for listening. This is stimulated by pictures relevant to the topic
of the unit.
- Vocabulary Preview
A list of key vocabulary items that are undefined in the listening. They are briefly
defined in the preview and are accompanied by sentences with missing words to be
filled in.
- Listening
The listening passages are read by a variety of native speakers of English. The vocabulary,
structure, content variation, redundancy, and rhetorical style of each passage
have been carefully chosen and designed.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on listening skills as related to the rhetorical
function being focused on. These include, among other skills and strategies, making
an outline already partially completed in order to lay out the rhetorical structure of
the talk.
- After Listening
Written exercises focusing on the specific rhetorical function being examined in order
to help the listener reconstruct important information from the talk.
Rationale for the Course Design
Listening to sentence-level material and short passages trains intermediate
students in listening skills relevant to the rhetorical function under consideration.
Materials are controlled for concept-recycling. Each passage contains a
limited number of ideas that the listener hopefully retains. Support for these key ideas
(that is, recycling) comes in the form of rewordings, examples, clear transition markers,
and summarizing.
Because of the graded use of language within the talks, learners acquire
the ability to process spoken language for increasingly longer spans of time - a
highly desirable target.
In order to ensure a high degree of comprehension of the passage, a
large percentage of content words need to be readily understood. The topics chosen
for the talks have, therefore, been made as tangible as possible, with the vocabulary
kept within an intermediate-level word-frequency range.
Finally, an important skill for students is note-taking, by which they
spot the main points of a talk and write them down in note form. These notes help
the listener to remember the main points of the talk. Note-taking is an individual activity,
so one person may have difficulty understanding another person’s notes. The
activities in this book should help a student learn to take down clearer, more concise
notes. In further activities, the learner is often asked to complete the partial notes
given.
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Intermediate Level, First Edition
Listening Skills for Engineering and Technical English, Intermediate Level, is the second in a series of English language texts designed for use in engineering and technology colleges, institutes, and adult English-language training programmes. This volume consists of eight units, and each unit is divided into two main parts. The units are organized around selected rhetorical functions: general ideas, specific information, classification, defining, chronological order, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and processes and procedures. The book is aimed at Arab students who are at an intermediate level of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Each unit proceeds from listening at sentence level to listening to a short passage, and aims at developing students’ skills in listening in engineering and technical English. Prelistening and postlistening activities are included in each unit. The book is accompanied by one audio DVD.
Organization of Units
Each of the eight units consists of the following sections:
- Before Listening
Some questions to discuss orally in order to give learners an idea of the subject matter
and prepare them for listening. This is stimulated by pictures relevant to the topic
of the unit.
- Vocabulary Preview
A list of key vocabulary items that are undefined in the listening. They are briefly
defined in the preview and are accompanied by sentences with missing words to be
filled in.
- Listening
The listening passages are read by a variety of native speakers of English. The vocabulary,
structure, content variation, redundancy, and rhetorical style of each passage
have been carefully chosen and designed.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on listening skills as related to the rhetorical
function being focused on. These include, among other skills and strategies, making
an outline already partially completed in order to lay out the rhetorical structure of
the talk.
- After Listening
Written exercises focusing on the specific rhetorical function being examined in order
to help the listener reconstruct important information from the talk.
Rationale for the Course Design
Listening to sentence-level material and short passages trains intermediate
students in listening skills relevant to the rhetorical function under consideration.
Materials are controlled for concept-recycling. Each passage contains a
limited number of ideas that the listener hopefully retains. Support for these key ideas
(that is, recycling) comes in the form of rewordings, examples, clear transition markers,
and summarizing.
Because of the graded use of language within the talks, learners acquire
the ability to process spoken language for increasingly longer spans of time - a
highly desirable target.
In order to ensure a high degree of comprehension of the passage, a
large percentage of content words need to be readily understood. The topics chosen
for the talks have, therefore, been made as tangible as possible, with the vocabulary
kept within an intermediate-level word-frequency range.
Finally, an important skill for students is note-taking, by which they
spot the main points of a talk and write them down in note form. These notes help
the listener to remember the main points of the talk. Note-taking is an individual activity,
so one person may have difficulty understanding another person’s notes. The
activities in this book should help a student learn to take down clearer, more concise
notes. In further activities, the learner is often asked to complete the partial notes
given.
Liten and Speak, Book 1, Elementary Level
Format of the Book
LISTEN AND SPEAK is made up of ten thematically- and conversationally-based units. Each unit consists of these sections:
- Before Listening
A set of questions to discuss orally that are related to the topic of the unit. The central aim is to activate students’ prior knowledge about the subject to prepare them to listen to the unit subject matter.
- Vocabulary Preview
First students listen to a series of key words and phrases important to understanding the listening. Then they listen to the complete conversation containing the new vocabulary. These vocabulary items are
1) briefly explained in the preview and accompanied by sentences with missing words to be filled in.
2) Students are asked to guess the meaning of certain underlined words and phrases, and match each with its correct meaning on the left.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on developing listening skills are provided:
- recognizing the main idea
- understanding specific information
- identifying stressed words and contractions
- identifying long forms and reductions
- pronouncing exclamations
- pronouncing -ed endings
- identifying answers and questions
- taking notes while listening
- pronouncing vowels and consonants
After Listening / Speaking
This section focuses on speaking activities through comprehension questions answered orally in complete sentences; vocabulary reviews that reinforce understanding and improve learner ability to communicate with the new vocabulary and so on; talking about pictures; and authentic speaking opportunities in a variety of formats such as interviews, surveys, scenarios. Each unit concludes with a discussion exercise related to the unit topic. All these speaking activities aim at enhancing students’ fluency, building confidence by linking understanding to production, and improving overall ability to communicate effectively.
Liten and Speak, Book 1, Elementary Level
Format of the Book
LISTEN AND SPEAK is made up of ten thematically- and conversationally-based units. Each unit consists of these sections:
- Before Listening
A set of questions to discuss orally that are related to the topic of the unit. The central aim is to activate students’ prior knowledge about the subject to prepare them to listen to the unit subject matter.
- Vocabulary Preview
First students listen to a series of key words and phrases important to understanding the listening. Then they listen to the complete conversation containing the new vocabulary. These vocabulary items are
1) briefly explained in the preview and accompanied by sentences with missing words to be filled in.
2) Students are asked to guess the meaning of certain underlined words and phrases, and match each with its correct meaning on the left.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on developing listening skills are provided:
- recognizing the main idea
- understanding specific information
- identifying stressed words and contractions
- identifying long forms and reductions
- pronouncing exclamations
- pronouncing -ed endings
- identifying answers and questions
- taking notes while listening
- pronouncing vowels and consonants
After Listening / Speaking
This section focuses on speaking activities through comprehension questions answered orally in complete sentences; vocabulary reviews that reinforce understanding and improve learner ability to communicate with the new vocabulary and so on; talking about pictures; and authentic speaking opportunities in a variety of formats such as interviews, surveys, scenarios. Each unit concludes with a discussion exercise related to the unit topic. All these speaking activities aim at enhancing students’ fluency, building confidence by linking understanding to production, and improving overall ability to communicate effectively.
Liten and Speak, Book 2, Intermediate Level
Format of the Book
LISTEN AND SPEAK is made up of ten thematically- and conversationally-based units. Each unit consists of these sections:
- Before Listening
A set of questions to discuss orally that are related to the topic of the unit. The central aim is to activate students’ prior knowledge about the subject to prepare them to listen to the unit subject matter.
- Vocabulary Preview
First students listen to a series of key words and phrases important to understanding the listening. Then they listen to the complete conversation containing the new vocabulary. These vocabulary items are
1) briefly explained in the preview and accompanied by sentences with missing words to be filled in.
2) Students are asked to guess the meaning of certain underlined words and phrases, and match each with its correct meaning on the left.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on developing listening skills are provided:
- recognizing the main idea
- understanding specific information
- identifying stressed words and contractions
- identifying long forms and reductions
- pronouncing exclamations
- pronouncing -ed endings
- identifying answers and questions
- taking notes while listening
- pronouncing vowels and consonants
After Listening / Speaking
This section focuses on speaking activities through comprehension questions answered orally in complete sentences; vocabulary reviews that reinforce understanding and improve learner ability to communicate with the new vocabulary and so on; talking about pictures; and authentic speaking opportunities in a variety of formats such as interviews, surveys, scenarios. Each unit concludes with a discussion exercise related to the unit topic. All these speaking activities aim at enhancing students’ fluency, building confidence by linking understanding to production, and improving overall ability to communicate effectively.
Liten and Speak, Book 2, Intermediate Level
Format of the Book
LISTEN AND SPEAK is made up of ten thematically- and conversationally-based units. Each unit consists of these sections:
- Before Listening
A set of questions to discuss orally that are related to the topic of the unit. The central aim is to activate students’ prior knowledge about the subject to prepare them to listen to the unit subject matter.
- Vocabulary Preview
First students listen to a series of key words and phrases important to understanding the listening. Then they listen to the complete conversation containing the new vocabulary. These vocabulary items are
1) briefly explained in the preview and accompanied by sentences with missing words to be filled in.
2) Students are asked to guess the meaning of certain underlined words and phrases, and match each with its correct meaning on the left.
- Listening Exercises
A variety of listening exercises that focus on developing listening skills are provided:
- recognizing the main idea
- understanding specific information
- identifying stressed words and contractions
- identifying long forms and reductions
- pronouncing exclamations
- pronouncing -ed endings
- identifying answers and questions
- taking notes while listening
- pronouncing vowels and consonants
After Listening / Speaking
This section focuses on speaking activities through comprehension questions answered orally in complete sentences; vocabulary reviews that reinforce understanding and improve learner ability to communicate with the new vocabulary and so on; talking about pictures; and authentic speaking opportunities in a variety of formats such as interviews, surveys, scenarios. Each unit concludes with a discussion exercise related to the unit topic. All these speaking activities aim at enhancing students’ fluency, building confidence by linking understanding to production, and improving overall ability to communicate effectively.
Pharmacy Terms in Common Use, Students Book, Second Edition
Welcome to the second edition of Pharmacy Terms In Common Use: Studying and Practising Academic Vocabulary This new edition is the product of constant revision and evaluation, not only by me, but also by the many instructors who, along with their students, have used the previous edition and have sent in valuable suggestions and comments. The success of the previous edition has been due, in large measure, to the honest and careful appraisal given by instructors and their students.
Pharmacy Terms In Common Use: Studying and Practising Academic Vocabulary is designed for pharmacy students and professionals who are studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at the upper elementary/intermediate level. It provides a solid foundation in pharmacy language to enable learners to understand and communicate in pharmaceutical/medical situations. It is meant to supply the need for teaching pharmacy vocabulary to non-native speakers of English.
The vocabulary items in this book are both frequent and commonly used in the pharmaceutical/medical field. They are arranged into eleven units according to their relevance to the subject matter, and each unit is divided into manageable sections. These are presented to the student in a regular, controlled fashion. Target words and their derivations are contextualized to illustrate their meanings, and are systematically introduced so that vocabulary development can lead to better learning. Word formation boxes are also provided to emphasize that having a sound knowledge of the meanings and significance of prefixes and suffixes is invaluable in helping students to guess the meanings of the many unknown words they will inevitably encounter in their pharmacy textbooks. Explanations and illustrations are provided to aid, motivate, and test student learning. Short reading passages illustrating the use of some vocabulary items from each section are also provided along with appropriate reading and vocabulary exercises.
Pharmacy Terms in Common Use, Students Book, Second Edition
Welcome to the second edition of Pharmacy Terms In Common Use: Studying and Practising Academic Vocabulary This new edition is the product of constant revision and evaluation, not only by me, but also by the many instructors who, along with their students, have used the previous edition and have sent in valuable suggestions and comments. The success of the previous edition has been due, in large measure, to the honest and careful appraisal given by instructors and their students.
Pharmacy Terms In Common Use: Studying and Practising Academic Vocabulary is designed for pharmacy students and professionals who are studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at the upper elementary/intermediate level. It provides a solid foundation in pharmacy language to enable learners to understand and communicate in pharmaceutical/medical situations. It is meant to supply the need for teaching pharmacy vocabulary to non-native speakers of English.
The vocabulary items in this book are both frequent and commonly used in the pharmaceutical/medical field. They are arranged into eleven units according to their relevance to the subject matter, and each unit is divided into manageable sections. These are presented to the student in a regular, controlled fashion. Target words and their derivations are contextualized to illustrate their meanings, and are systematically introduced so that vocabulary development can lead to better learning. Word formation boxes are also provided to emphasize that having a sound knowledge of the meanings and significance of prefixes and suffixes is invaluable in helping students to guess the meanings of the many unknown words they will inevitably encounter in their pharmacy textbooks. Explanations and illustrations are provided to aid, motivate, and test student learning. Short reading passages illustrating the use of some vocabulary items from each section are also provided along with appropriate reading and vocabulary exercises.
Pharmacy Terms In Use: Studying and Practising Academic Vocabulary