«Designed with an eye to CLIL (content and language integrated learning), «Connections» is intended to meet the functional and notional requirements of EFL teaching at CEFR levels B1-B2. Objectives: • Language practice: development of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills, including the ESP requirements of university courses. • Testing: the exercises are mainly in the style of tasks from the FCE exam papers (Reading, Writing, Use of English, Listening, Speaking) • Focus on content: the topics for study include a wide range of subjects; History, Literature, Business, Science etc. Features: • Sixty full-colour units, each of which deals with a new topic • Three sections – Reading, Listening and Speaking, Use of English and Writing – which cover the task types of the five papers of the FCE exam. • Three Cross-sectional Maps offering examples of possible itineraries to follow. • An audio CD containing the listening activities. A teacher’s guide is available separately.»
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