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Analysis of Teaching Material- NEW HEADWAY ADVANCED
The material chosen for analysis is the New Headway Advanced Student’s Course Book published and released in 2004 and written by Liz Soars, John Soars. The New Headway claims to the best-selling series that combines the best of traditional methods with current teaching techniques. It is renowned and valued for a reliable methodology that works at every level. Headway goes on to assert that no course offers more in terms of levels, components, and support. The long-awaited, totally new edition of the Advanced level of New Headway, provides a real challenge and stimulus for Advanced learners. (Oxford University Press, 2004) The New Headway Advanced Student’s Book is targeted for Advanced learners who are not at the stage of expanding their knowledge of English into the realms of social and cultural differences within the English speaking world.
The New Headway Advanced Student’s book is set out into 12 units of work. Each unit topic is titled in a way that it shows its relevance and relation to everyday life and scenarios. Starting off with “Our land is your land” and moving on to “Never lost for words” and so on. However each unit does have specific aims of language that it is teaching the students such as its specific language focus for the unit, the vocabulary that is to be used, reading and listening activities, as well as a speaking component. And finishing off each unit with a “Last word” where they discuss a variety of things ranging from the differences in American and British Englishes, to how to sound more emotional with the choice of words used. In the case of Unit one for example, students are to read and listen to a conversation in American English and to turn it into British English making the necessary word substitutions. At the end of each unit students are to do a writing exercise which ranges from writing a letter to writing a film or book review. In each instance, the student is required to
The material chosen for analysis is the New Headway Advanced Student’s Course Book published and released in 2004 and written by Liz Soars, John Soars. The New Headway claims to the best-selling series that combines the best of traditional methods with current teaching techniques. It is renowned and valued for a reliable methodology that works at every level. Headway goes on to assert that no course offers more in terms of levels, components, and support. The long-awaited, totally new edition of the Advanced level of New Headway, provides a real challenge and stimulus for Advanced learners. (Oxford University Press, 2004) The New Headway Advanced Student’s Book is targeted for Advanced learners who are not at the stage of expanding their knowledge of English into the realms of social and cultural differences within the English speaking world.
The New Headway Advanced Student’s book is set out into 12 units of work. Each unit topic is titled in a way that it shows its relevance and relation to everyday life and scenarios. Starting off with “Our land is your land” and moving on to “Never lost for words” and so on. However each unit does have specific aims of language that it is teaching the students such as its specific language focus for the unit, the vocabulary that is to be used, reading and listening activities, as well as a speaking component. And finishing off each unit with a “Last word” where they discuss a variety of things ranging from the differences in American and British Englishes, to how to sound more emotional with the choice of words used. In the case of Unit one for example, students are to read and listen to a conversation in American English and to turn it into British English making the necessary word substitutions. At the end of each unit students are to do a writing exercise which ranges from writing a letter to writing a film or book review. In each instance, the student is required to