Description

Passages, Second Edition, is a thoroughly revised edition of Passages, the successful two-level, multi-skills course that takes adult and young-adult learners of English from the high-intermediate to advanced level. Updated to offer fresh, contemporary content, it provides many opportunities for expansion of listening and speaking skills, as well as reading skills development, a step-by-step academic writing strand, a new Grammar Plus section with additional grammar explanation and practice, and a new learner-focused self-study section. Each Student’s Book also includes the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary on CD-ROM. The course helps learners communicate both accurately and fluently while providing challenging content to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Passages, Second Edition, provides an ideal follow-up for students who have completed a beginning to intermediate course, and it is carefully coordinated to function as a sequel to Interchange Third Edition, the world’s most successful course for adult and young-adult learners of English.

Methodology and Research

Passages, Second Edition, seeks to develop both fluency and accuracy at the upper-intermediate to advanced level of proficiency. The course is based on the assumption that students have a strong foundation in English and they now need to extend their communicatinve competence by developing their ability to:

• expand the range of topics they can discuss and comprehend in English
• extend their knowledge and use of grammar
• increase tehir vocabulary use and knowledge
• speak English fluently
• speak English accurately

To teach these skills, Passages uses a communicative methodology that centers around presenting topics that extend students’ oral and grammatical skills, providing opportunities for students to engage in communicative tasks requriring the exchange of information and negotiation of meaning, and developing control of grammar and language through activities that present and model language patterns, and then provide opportunities to practice them in authentic communicative contexts.

Pedagogical Booklets

 Communicative Language Teaching Today
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 Moving Beyond the Plateau
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 Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice
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