In Touch forms 10 12 Margarita Hanschmidt Helje

In Touch forms 10 -12 Margarita Hanschmidt, Helje Kaskel, Mikael Davies et al Varied and challenging Wide variety of themes Cultural information Exam help Balanced development of all language skills

What does In Touch offer for pupils? Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø A wide range of interesting topics with subtopics Grammar + Refresh exercises Writing skills Extracts from modern English literature Culture tips Humorous listening and reading texts Nice photos and illustrations New toolboxes Songs and poems Personal CD-ROM

Textbook with a CD/CD-ROM Balanced development of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills Much attention to vocabulary, reading comprehension, pronunciation, intonation, spelling A separate grammar section and a dictionary Project-based learning Much pair work and group work Cultural advice on how to behave in English speaking countries

Student’s CD/CD-ROM with material for individual work For listening main texts Grammar practice Vocabulary exercises Text-related tasks and exercises Listening practice Refresh tasks

Learning process COMPREHENSION (READING, LISTENING) INTRO KEY TEXTS Working with words Freehand Write on Listening TALKING, ELABORATION Pronunciation Culture tips Projects In addition: translation exercises, idioms, learning skills (Tool boxes), read on texts, crosswords.

Toolboxes In Touch 1: Guessing the meaning; Guessing what the text is about; Explaining words; Grouping; Using a dictionary; Jogging your memory In Touch 2: Scanning, skimming; Elaboration; Inferring; Summarizing; Taking notes; Peer teaching; Selecting words to remember In Touch 3: Tuning into the text; Set expressions; Making it personal; Activating prior knowledge; Pretaught vocabulary; Semantic mapping In Touch 4: Listing the main points; Making a mind map; Listing questions; Story grammar; Linguistic clues

In Touch 3 & 4: topics In Touch 3 ◦ 1 Dreams (future choices, dilemmas, conflicts) ◦ 2 A class of your own (different school systems, problems, cheating, exhange students, relationships, difficult people) ◦ 3 My brilliant career (job satisfaction, summer jobs, odd jobs, how to start a company, pitfalls, elevator speeches, first aid) ◦ 4 Celebrating creativity and Christmas (benefits, keys, Estonian culture, ideal teacher, traditions) In Touch 4 ◦ 1 Open House (town v. countryside, flat-hunting, classifieds, unemployment, homeless people, Estonian architecture) ◦ 2 Rest and Recreation (services, shopping, shopaholics, eating, vegetarianism, cultural differences, generation differences) ◦ 3 Opposites attract (love, marriage, children, cohabitation, gender equality, values, virtues, vices, moral compass) ◦ 4 Do the right thing (honesty, multicultural diversity, netiquette, crime & punishment, politics, football hooligans, safe environment)

Teacher’s guide and CDs Each unit: aims and lesson plans Additional material: role plays, vocabulary development, pronunciation practice, games and quizzes (incl. transparencies) A key to all exercises Suggestions regarding language portfolios Transcripts CD includes listening material from the textbook

Tests vocabulary and grammar tests reading comprehension writing tasks speaking tasks includes a key

Already published: In Touch 1 & 2 form 10 In Touch 3 & 4 form 11 In 2010 In Touch 5 & 6 form 12

Further plans Ø Web environment - downloadable online materials: qtests qadditional materials qtips and advice qupdates

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