English level:
Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate
Christina Gitsaki and Richard P Taylor
Description
A WWW-based conversation course to help adults exploit the Web without getting lost in it.
Key features
- Internet English is the first WWW-based conversation course. It helps students develop the skills needed to surf the Web independently, while providing direction and motivation to complete specific tasks.
- It helps students take full advantage of the Internet as a classroom resource. The Internet provides a variety of topics to satisfy a diverse audience; it gives exposure to real-life English; it is fun and motivating; and it gives students the opportunity to manage their own learning.
- Students do not need to have advanced computer skills to use the course. Three introductory 'Computer Skills Units' bring less-experienced students up to speed on computer terminology, word processing operations, Web-surfing and e-mail.
- Each of the ten 'Web Search Units' follows the same carefully designed structure: students are introduced to the topic, guided through their Web search, then encouraged to share their results with their classmates in a variety of communicative activities.
- Vocabulary-building tasks prepare learners for the words and expressions they may encounter on the Internet.
- Pair work and group work activities give students the chance to share information and opinions and practise their speaking skills.
- A 'Computer Project' in each unit gives students the chance to use their computers and the World Wide Web creatively.
- A 'Language Window' in each unit contains useful grammatical structures that support the conversation tasks in each unit.
- A Teacher's Book gives notes on presenting the units, optional activities, photocopiable resource pages, tests, and lists of useful URLs.
- A dedicated product website (www.oup.com/elt/internet.english) has preselected links to sites that work with each unit's activities.
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