BOOK REPORT AND REVIEW: LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH (A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level) Written by: Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D and Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd

BOOK REPORT AND REVIEW

LET’S COMMUNICATE IN ENGLISH

(A Speaking Course for Intermediate Level)

Written by:

Prof. Dra. Kasihani K.E. Suyanto, M.A.,Ph.D

Dra. Sri Rachmajanti, Di. TESL, M.Pd

Year: 2013

City: Malang

Publisher: Bayumedia Publishing

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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3. Speaking Naturally "Communication Skills in American English" by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
4. Mastering American English by Grant Taylor
5. “TECHNIQUES AND PRINCIPLES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (SECOND EDITION)” By DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN