New Headway English Course takes the successful Headway series into an exciting new era. It introduces new features to challenge adult and young adult intermediate students and ensure that learning English is interesting and motivating. The course combines the best of traditional methods with more recent approaches, to help students use English both accurately and fluently.
This new intermediate course provides approximately 120 hours of language learning. It fits neatly between Headway Pre-Intermediate and Headway Upper-Intermediate, and together with Headway Elementary and Headway Advanced provides a comprehensive language teaching series for today's classrooms.
Key features
• New, universal topics selected from a variety of sources.
• Detailed treatment of grammar Each unit starts with a quick Test your grammar section and clear Presentation text with a variety of controlled and freer practice exercises. Grammar questions encourage students to work things out for themselves and the Language review provides a summary of the unit's main grammar points.
• Thorough skills syllabus All four skills are developed systematically and activities are interwoven throughout the material in exciting new contexts.
• Well-defined vocabulary syllabus plus dictionary training and pronunciation practice, including the use of phonetics.
• Useful everyday English is practised in the new Postscript section.
• Appendices Grammar reference section, Irregular verbs, Verb patterns, Index of the grammar structures, Phonetic symbols.
In addition to the Student's Book, there is a Teacher's Book with extra photocopiable activities, two Class Cassettes, and a Workbook with an optional Student Cassette. This level is supplemented by Headway Intermediate Video and Headway Intermediate Pronunciation.
