`Headway` is a multi-level course for adults and young adults who want to use English both accurately and fluently. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly, and all four language skills are developed systematically .The `Headway` series combines traditional methods of language teaching and more recent communicative approaches. `Headway Pre-Intermediate` is a second-year coursebook which, along with `Headway Intermediate`, `Headway Upper-Intermediate`, and `Headway Advanced`, provides acomprehensive language teaching series for the 1990s.
Each level of `Headway` provides approximately 120 hours of teaching. Key features of `Headway Pre-Intermediate` include: - Detailed treatment of grammar in two stages: at the beginning of each unit, where it is introduced and practised, and then, in a fuller version suitable for self-study and revision, in the Grammar section at the back of the book.
- A variety of practice activities to consolidate the language.
- Further practice in the Skills Development section.
- Carefully selected personalized fluency work.
- An Everyday English section which practises common expressions in everyday situations.
The Student`s Book also contains reference lists of vocabulary, irregular verbs, dependent prepositions, and verb patterns. In addition, there is a Teacher`s Book, two cassettes, and a Workbook with further consolidation exercises, a writing syllabus, and a self-check revision section.
`Headway Pre-Intermediate` is accompanied by `Headway Pre-Intermediate Pronunciation`, which provides a range of supplementary exercises to practise all aspects of pronunciation.