Understanding Ideas Teacher's Book: Advanced Reading Skills

Description: This teacher's book contains helpful notes on the texts in Understanding Ideas, giving information about the authors, contexts or cultural background where this seems desirable. It also provides answers to all the questions set on the texts and suggestions for follow-up work such as writing, discussion and role-playing. Those texts in Understanding Ideas which lend themselves to oral exploitation have been recorded on cassette. The teacher's book suggests ways to use the recording, for example, for global or detailed listening comprehension, pronunciation work or as an aid to oral presentation of a text intended for intensive language study.

Contents: Introduction; 1. How to read a text; 2. Guessing unknown words; 3. Open-ended tests; 4. Introduction to summary; 5. Writing summaries; Practice tests.


Author Biography: In 2014 Michael Swan was announced as the Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to English language teaching.