Survival English

Аннотация

This book comprises materials used over several years with adult learners of English as a foreign language in Londori. The students came from all over the world, from very different social backgrounds and with wide-ranging levels of ability in English. A 'speech workshop' was established, aimed to give students of all levels practice in spoken English. As its classes were voluntary, extra-curricular and of very mixed grades, it was necessary to devise materials not geared to a syllabus but arising spontaneously from students' needs and requests. Their inability to apologise effectively on arriving late, for example, was the source of the sections on Apology and Cause; their charming but often awkward ways of expressing thanks led to the unit on Gratitude. Thus, in the course of time, a series of units were evolved, dealing with those categories of expression where the lack of colloquial fluency was most felt.