LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH
(A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level)
Let’s
communicate in English is designed to enable the students at the intermediate
level to become active, responsive, and resourceful participants of various
roles in the debate of pre-arranged topics. It is also designed to enable the
students to express their ideas spontaneously in a group discussion and in the
other activities such as storytelling, role-playing, reporting, and public
speaking etc. The topics of the units are well selected for these communicative
activities.
This course book consists of ten
units, each of which is commonly preceded by an introduction of language
functions ad followed by some practice. In unit 1 and unit 4, students are
supposed to read some ideas on group discussion and debate. Prior to practice,
they can talk about the ideas orally in a class discussion. The last unit, unit
10 contains various communicative tasks functioning as a review of previous
speaking materials in Let’s Communicating in English, Book 1. Each unit is
preceded by a specific instructional objective.
This book is about how the learners
can speak in English actively. This book has ten units that contains about the
materials, practices, and pictures how to speak in many activities. Each unit
has its expertise in improving speaking skill. After finishing Unit 1, Group
Discussion, the learners will be able to give opinions on a certain problem and
clarify a problem for a solution. Unit 2, Problem Page, the learners will be
able to give solution to some daily problems and prepare a certain problem to
be solved by others. Unit 3, Record Work and Some Ways of Learning English, learners
will be able to report the information you have obtained from an interview and
use some wh-questions and yes/no questions. Unit 4, Debating, the learners will
be able to: put forward your arguments on a particular topic and give responses
using appropriate expressions for a debate. Unit 5, The Job Interview, the
learners will be able to give responses on questions related to a particular
job and ask questions about particular items related to a job. Unit 6, Language
Games and Songs, you will be able to use some language functions in language
games and sing some English songs. Unit 7, Meeting and Small Talk, the learners
will be able to give your opinion on the topic of the meeting and have a social
talk with the participants of a meeting. Unit 8, Describing Organizations, the
learners will be able to provide a description or picture of the organization
structure of bank/company/school/office/particular organizations and use some
particular expressions used in describing an organization chart. Unit 9, Public
Speaking, you will be able to ask questions referring to any public speaking
and end up a speech using appropriate expressions. Unit 10, Panel Discussion,
the learners will be able to use some particular language function to be used
in panel discussion and express your ideas on a particular topic in the panel
discussion. Unit 11, Miscellaneous Activities, you will be able to carry out
many communicative tasks with various language functions.
After reading this book, Let’s
Communicate in English, we can find many activities that will improve our
speaking skill. It is because actually this book emphasize in speaking skill as
the main purpose of this book itself. By learning this book, it will increase
the activeness of students. Students will have many experiences of speaking
activities like discussion, debate, public speaking, etc. This book contains
little materials and many practices. It will be more effective for students
than just give the material. So, the learning process between students and teacher
will be more communicative.
Let’s
Communicate in English is a good book as a lesson book for communicating in
English that tended for intermediate level. It is proper to be applied in
Indonesian education to build active, responsive, and resourceful students in many topics in English speaking.
This book is also very useful for students to express their ideas spontaneously
in a group discussion and other activities in English speaking. The topics of
the units are well selected for these communicative activities that can be
applied in daily life. Each unit of this book is preceded by a specific
instructional objective. The strength of this book is this book provides less
material and more exercise each of unit in specific instructional objective and
provides the specific purpose of each unit. The weakness of this book is this
book does not provide many materials and theory, so the learners will have less
material to be learned, unless the teachers explain it.
After reading and reviewing this
book, we recommend you to read this book because this book is very simple and
very effective to improve the students speaking skill well. The purpose of each
unit also provides clearly on this book. Thus, the purpose of learning process can
be reach specifically. So, if you want to be a teacher, this book is very
proper for you as hand book to teach more active and communicative.
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