2018 | PDF | 160 Pages buihuuhanh@gmail.com Fourth edition New Elementary Teacher’s Book Liz and John Soars LizAmanda and John MarisSoars with Teacher’s Resource Disc 1 4769068 NHW Elem TB 4e.indb 1 24/02/2011 09:45 Contents Introduction 4 Unit 1 am/is/are • my/your/his/her • Verbs – have/go/live/like • Possessive ’s • Word groups • Everyday conversations 6 Unit 2 Present Simple (1) – he/she/it • Questions and negatives • Jobs • What time is it? 17 Unit 3 Present Simple (2) – I/you/we/they • In my free time • Social expressions (1) 28 Unit 4 There is/are • some/any/a lot of • this/that/these/those • Adjectives • Numbers and prices 39 Unit 5 can/can’t • was/were/could • Words that go together • Polite requests 51 Unit 6 Past Simple (1) – regular and irregular • Describing feelings • What’s the date? 63 Unit 7 Past Simple (2) • Questions and negatives • Time expressions • Adverbs • Special occasions 74 Unit 8 Count and uncount nouns • some/any • I like and I’d like • How much? or How many? • Food and drink • Shopping in the High Street 85 Unit 9 Comparative and superlative adjectives • have got • Town and country • Directions 97 Unit 10 Present Continuous • something/nothing … • Describing people • Social expressions (2) 110 Unit 11 going to future • Infinitive of purpose • What’s the weather like? • Making suggestions 123 Unit 12 Present Perfect • ever, never, yet, and just • take and get • Transport and travel 136 Photocopiable worksheets Units 1–12 148 TEACHER’S RESOURCE DISC (inside back cover) Communicative activities Student’s Book word lists Tests with test audio Class tapescripts Grammar Reference with practice Workbook tapescripts 3 4769068 NHW Elem TB 4e.indb 3 24/02/2011 09:45 Introduction New Headway Elementary • have got • Present Continuous New Headway Elementary, Fourth edition is a course for • going to students who already have some basic knowledge of the • Infinitive of purpose language. They may have recently completed a beginner course or they may be returning to language learning after • Present Perfect a break and need to revise key language before being able There are Grammar Spots in the presentation sections. These to progress further. aim to focus students’ attention on the language of the unit.
There are questions to answer, charts to complete, and short New language is introduced systematically and at a steady exercises. The Grammar Spot ends by cueing a section of the pace, allowing students to increase their knowledge of the Grammar Reference at the back of the book. language and build their confidence. Listening material is provided across three class CDs.
New vocabulary is Practice introduced gradually and there are regular controlled practice activities, allowing students to activate the language This section contains a variety of controlled and freer in a supported way. There are also freer practice activities practice exercises. The primary skills used are speaking and where students have the ability to start focusing on their listening, but there is also some reading and writing. In the Everyday English sections, useful chunks of There are information gap exercises, group discussions, language are presented, which students can use in several information transfer listening exercises, pronunciation different social contexts.
exercises, and a lot of personalized activities. There are exercises where the aim is overt analysis of the grammar, such as Check it. Organization of the course The organization of New Headway Elementary, Fourth Vocabulary edition is similar to other levels of Headway, fourth edition. There is a strong lexical syllabus in New Headway Each unit has the following: Elementary, Fourth edition.
Vocabulary is introduced • Starter systematically and it is reviewed and recycled throughout • Presentation of new language the course. Lexical sets are chosen according to two criteria. • Practice They complement the grammatical input, for example, jobs and free-time activities with the Present Simple; or shopping • Skills work – always speaking, combined with listening items for count and uncount nouns. However, they are or reading, with a writing section for each unit at the back of the book mainly chosen for their usefulness.
Elementary level students need to build on their vocabulary set and they primarily • Vocabulary need words for everyday life. Students also work on word • Everyday English patterns in the form of collocations. Knowledge of common collocations can really help to improve an elementary Starter student’s level of fluency. The course covers noun + noun The Starter section is designed to be a warmer to the lesson combinations as well as verb + noun combinations, such and has a direct link with the unit to come.
as drive a car, look after children, get married, etc. Students also focus on other patterns throughout the course, such as Presentation of new language opposite adjectives and adverbs. New language items are presented through texts, often conversations, which students can read and listen to at the same time. This enables students to relate the spelling to the Skills work sounds of English, and helps with pronunciation, as well as form and use.
Listening Regular unseen listening sections, in dialogue or monologue The main verb forms taught are: form, provide further practice of the language of the unit • to be and help to develop students’ ability to understand the main • Present Simple message of the text. • can/can’t • was/were/could Reading • Past Simple At the beginning of the course the reading texts are • I’d like relatively short and are carefully graded to allow students 4 Introduction 4769068 NHW Elem TB 4e.indb 4 24/02/2011 09:45 to build on their previous knowledge and to increase their confidence as they start a new level. As students Teacher’s Book (TB) move through the course, the texts quickly become longer The Teacher’s Book offers the teacher full support both for and more challenging, with students being exposed to lesson preparation and in the classroom. The New Headway increasing amounts of new lexis.
This encourages them to Elementary Teacher’s Book, Fourth edition has a new look start deducing meaning from context and enables them to with the addition of colour to highlight ideas for extra engage with more complex reading texts. classroom activities and to aid navigation. Each unit starts with a clear overview of the unit content from the Student’s Speaking Book, along with a brief introduction to the main themes In the presentation sections, students have the opportunity of the unit and a summary of additional materials that to practise the pronunciation and intonation of new can be used. Within each unit, the blue sections indicate language.
In the practice sections, less controlled exercises opportunities for additional activities with Suggestions lead to freer speaking practice. and Extra activities. This allows for further work on key There are many speaking exercises based around the language or skills when appropriate. listening and reading activities, including regular roleplays.
There are speaking opportunities before a text, to launch the Teacher’s Resource Disc (TRD) topic and create interest; and there are speaking activities after a text, often in the form of discussion. The Teacher’s Resource Disc can be found inside the back cover of the Teacher’s Book. It contains additional printable Writing material to support the teacher with course. The Disc Writing is primarily practised in a separate section at the also has customizable versions of all 24 Photocopiable back of the Student’s Book.
This comprises twelve complete worksheets, along with tips on what to change, so that the writing lessons cued from the unit, which can be used at the activities can be adapted to be more applicable to your teacher’s discretion. The writing syllabus provides models students. The Disc also includes all testing materials – Unit for students to analyse and imitate. tests, Stop and check tests, Progress tests, Exit tests, and Skills tests with audio files.
It also contains the Student’s Everyday English Book reference materials – Tapescripts, Word list, and This is an important part of the syllabus of New Headway Grammar Reference with related grammar exercises. Elementary, Fourth edition. Students have the opportunity to practise chunks of language used in formal and informal Other materials for New Headway Elementary, situations. Students learn phrases for requests and suitable Fourth edition responses, for use whilst shopping, when asking for directions, and for many other situations.
Students also learn about appropriacy, as there is a focus on how to Video sound polite by choosing suitable phrases and using polite Brand new video clips, along with classroom worksheets are intonation. available on the new Headway Elementary Fourth edition iTools. There are twelve clips, one for each unit. The language Grammar Reference and theme in each clip are linked to the relevant Student’s This is at the back of the Student’s Book, and it is intended Book unit.
The majority of the clips follow a documentary for use at home. It can be used for revision or reference. style, and include native speaker interviews. Revision Teacher’s Resource Book Regular revision of grammar and vocabulary is provided This contains photocopiable games and activities to throughout the course.
There is a Photocopiable activity for supplement the New Headway Elementary syllabus. each of the 12 units at the back of this Teacher’s Book. These Photocopiables also feature on the Teacher’s Resource Disc, Finally! along with an additional 12 Photocopiable activities. There are also 12 Unit tests, five Skills tests, three Stop and check The activities within New Headway Elementary, Fourth tests, two Progress tests, and two Exit tests on the Disc.
edition are designed to enable elementary students to build on their knowledge of the language and to allow them to activate what they have learnt. There is also an emphasis on Workbook increasing confidence, so that students feel able to actively participate in short conversations and discussions. We hope All the language input – grammatical, lexical, and functional – that students will enjoy using the course and that it will give is revisited and practised. them a real sense of progression in their language learning.
Introduction 5 4769068 NHW Elem TB 4e.indb 5 24/02/2011 09:45 1 You and me am/is/are • my/your/his/her • Verbs – have/go/live/like • Possessive ’s • Word groups • Everyday conversations As you begin New Headway Elementary, you are probably starting a new course with a new group of students. The main aim of this first unit is that students get to know each other and you, and you get to know them. In addition to this focus on personal information, students also practise greetings and expressions from everyday conversations. LANGUAGE INPUT GRAMMAR am/is/are (SB p6, p11) • Practising be in all persons (affirmative/negative/questions).
my/your/his/her (SB p6, p7, p11) • Reviewing subject pronouns and possessive adjectives. Verbs – have/go/live/like (SB p8) • Recognizing and using basic verbs to talk about everyday life (I form). Possessive ’s (SB p8) • Understanding ’s for possession and as the short form of is. VOCABULARY Opposite adjectives (SB p11) • Focusing on key adjectives and their opposites in context.
The family (SB p12) • Practising vocabulary to ask and answer about your family. EVERYDAY ENGLISH Everyday conversations (SB p13) • Using greetings and key expressions in everyday situations. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT READING A student’s blog (SB p10) • Reading about a student’s experiences of school and family in England. LISTENING Five conversations in a student’s day (SB p11) • Listening for key information in five short conversations and completing a chart.13 (SB p118/TRD) SPEAKING Talking about you (SB p7) • Exchanging personal information.
The family (SB p12) • Talking about your family. WRITING You and your life (SB p9) • Writing key information about yourself. A blog – Keeping an online journal (SB p104) • Completing gapped blog entries, then writing an entry to read aloud. MORE MATERIALS Photocopiables – Everyday conversations (TB p148), Adjectives pelmanism (TRD ) Tests (TRD ) Video (iTools ) 6 Unit 1 • You and me 01 DW NHW_Elem_TB_U01 (FF).