`New Headway English Course` takes the successful `Headway` series into an exciting new era. It introduces new features to challenge adult and young adult intermediate students and ensure that learning English is interesting and motivating. The course combines the best of traditional methods with more recent approaches, to help students use English both accurately and fluently.
This new intermediate course provides approximately 120 hours of language learning. It fits neatly between `Headway Pre-Intermediate` and `Headway Upper-Intermediate`, and together with `Headway Elementary` and `Headway Advanced` provides a comprehensive language teaching series for today`s classrooms.
Key features:
New, universal topics selected from a variety of sources.
Detailed treatment of grammar. Each unit starts with a quick `Test your grammar` section and clear `Presentation` text with a variety of controlled and freer practice exercises. `Grammar questions` encourage students to work things out for themselves and the `Language review` provides a summary of the unit`s main grammar points.
Thorough skills syllabus. All four skills are developed systematically and activities are interwoven throughout the materialin exciting new contexts.
Well-defined vocabulary syllabus plus dictionary training and pronunciation practice, including the use of phonetics.
Useful everyday English is practised in the new `Postscript` section.
Appendices. Grammar reference section, Irregular verbs, Verb patterns. Index of the grammar structures, Phonetic symbols.
This Workbook contains consolidation exercises, extra related grammar points, vocabulary sections, including multi-word verbs andprepositions, and pronunciation activities.