■Focuses on shadowing (simultaneously listening to and repeating what you hear), a highly effective language learning technique that provides lots of practice with the sounds, intonation, stress patterns and overall rhythm of English
■Presents real world listening examples and language learning tasks in a way that engages young adult learners and allows them to practice language that is meaningful and used in everyday situations
■Includes vocabulary building and comprehension exercises that enable students to understand and discuss current issues and news events in a personal context
■語学習得に効果的なシャドーイングの手法を取り入れた教材
■今世界で話題になっている出来事を理解しながら、英語の音声にも習熟
■「英語を英語のまま聞いて理解する能力」と「英語らしく復唱できる能力」の両方が高められるように工夫
■各章は,コアとなる学習ページ(4ページ)と,自習にも利用可能なオプションの発展学習ページ(2ページ)で構成。短く多彩なアクティビティーでフレキシブルな授業が可能。■各ユニットではリスニング,スピーキング,リーディング,ライティングの4技能をシステマチックに,バランスよく学習。■学生に興味深いトピックのリーディング素材,ユーモアに満ちたリスニング素材,楽しいイラストや写真で学習意欲がアップ。■文法の知識とボキャブラリーを増強するエクササイズ,発音練習のページが充実。■3ユニットごとにレビューユニットを用意。巻末には重要単語リストを収録。
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■ Breakthrough combines a dynamic, communicative methodology with a fully-integrated skills syllabus, placing strong emphasis on real-world language and everyday situations. ■ Each of the 12 units consists of four pages of core language followed by a two-page Expansion section. Teachers and learners can choose which skills to focus on. ■ The comprehensive Teacher's Guide contains a wealth of materials to make your class preparation easier: detailed unit notes with easy-to-implement options, photocopiable activities and tests, and the useful and innovative Test Generator on CD-ROM.
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A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
Breaking News Listening
Improving English Skills Through SHADOWING Practice
■Focuses on shadowing (simultaneously listening to and repeating what you hear), a highly effective language learning technique that provides lots of practice with the sounds, intonation, stress patterns and overall rhythm of English
■Presents real world listening examples and language learning tasks in a way that engages young adult learners and allows them to practice language that is meaningful and used in everyday situations
■Includes vocabulary building and comprehension exercises that enable students to understand and discuss current issues and news events in a personal context
■16 units with 8 themes ranging from Travel, Culture to Life with the Internet
■Flexible and easy to use-teachers can select texts by topic, genre, reading skill or vocabulary skill
■Extensive reading, activities, plus reading and vocabulary skills sheets
■One Teacher’s File for all 3 levels packed with a test Generator CD-ROM
■The resource site contains MP3 files of main reading texts, extra vocabulary sheets and wordlist
2010 NEW
■Introduces students to a variety of American traditions
■Improved rich practice in the four language skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing - with particular emphasis on reading and listening
■A common reason adults have for studying English is “I want to travel!” Your students know they should study English, but do they really have a strong motivation to learn English? Adventures Abroad will rescue them from their plight! Everyone can understand that the better one speaks English, the easier one can handle an overseas trip. Adventures Abroad thus features practical conversation situations in which students successfully communicate with each other as if they were traveling. which many of your students will do, during their college years or soon afterwards. The listening practice is likewise practical and leads to successful communication in the closely related conversation practice. ■The included DVD has interviews with locals, a video introduction to each city, and all the listening exercises featured in the student book. ■In each unit students will visit a differ
■Speaking and listening exercises are based on homestay situations
■Students learn about family life and student life in the US.
■The DVD features two homestay families, three homestayers, and lots of
real-life interaction between them
■Documentary-style filming helps students understand what they may
experience if they were to go on a homestay
■Interviews with local students, teachers and staff, parents, homestay
siblings, and homestayers themselves
■Easy-to-use approach and interesting content have been rated highly by
students
■ Miki is an exchange student from Japan. As your students watch Campus Encounters they'll see Miki assimilate herself into campus life and make some real friends. ■ As your students use the textbook, they will learn the linguistic and cultural information that helps deepen their understanding of what is going on behind the scenes. Features: ● Smartly shot and edited film ● Natural, useful conversations ● Interviews with real students and related people at the end of each unit ● Coordinated and supportive exercises in the textbook ■ Campus Encounters is the ticket your students can use to understand American university life!
■The new edition of Speaking of Speech includes all the great features of the first edition but now includes a DVD with detailed instruction and examples of proper use of visual aids.
■Activity Bases- Pairwork, information gap, strip stories and more keep students involved
Learner Friendly- Students learn and practice in six clear steps:
[1]What [2]Why [3]How [4]Practice [5]Performance [6]Evaluation
■Builds skills progressively- Students move from basic delivery skills to the more structural and organizational skills necessary for longer presentations.
■ This title will help your students prepare for the listening section of the TOEIC Bridge test. ■ Students recognize key aspects of conversations as they are heard on the TOEIC Bridge test and then answer TOEIC Bridge-style questions.
■Contains tips and strategies based on past TOEFL exams.
■Problem analysis which develops skills for tackling TOEFL examination.
■Study tips and explanations in Japanese.
■Specifically designed for young adult Japanese learners. Provides students with extensive listening & speaking activities
■Abundant opportunities for learners to talk in pairs and small groups
■Review games that offer a fun way of reinforcing previously learned language
Collocations for English Writing
コロケーション活用英語ライティング
■Common Errors in English Writingの著者が、さらに英語のライティング力を向上させたい学生向けに作成した教材
■48の基本名詞と動詞、前置詞の結びつきを系統立ててしっかりと学習
■英語では動詞+名詞という名詞表現が多用されることに着目。それをマスターすることで英語力をワンランクアップ
■Helps students improve their writing skills
■Students learn how to make sentences with various nouns, verbs and preposition
■Shares examples/notes for common collocations in English usage
■Macmillan English Grammar In Context presents a range of activity types and topic based exercises which keep student interest while building confidence in English grammar. In addition, each textbook includes a CD-ROM which contains unit-by-unit interactive materials and a full glossary.
■Designed for undergraduate students who have never studied business English.
■Presents a solid introduction to doing business in English, covering everything from exchanging business cards to giving presentations.
■Practice TOEIC section for each unit.
■Comprehensive glossary in the back of the book.
■Students not only learn medical terms, but are also being trained to think critically on different medical issues through various exercises
■Systematic development of each of the four skills through various exercises
■Keeps Students interested with hot medical topics
Sample Teacher's Manual
■ Ideas & Issues is a five-level course that is ideal for learners in need of motivation for discussion-based language learning from the threshold/pre-intermediate level to advanced level. Ideas & Issues addresses hard-hitting topics designed to elicit opinions from all sides of the argument.
■ The 20 units provide:
● Four skills work to enliven the pre-intermediate class
● Dynamic revision for a fresh look at basic language
● Topics based on authentic situations which students can identify with
● Extra learning-to-learn unit to help students develop their own language
● Ten units in American English, ten units in British English
● Emphasis on oral skills with special role-play cards for every topic in the Teacher's Guide
■Popular listening series with an emphasis on fun and ease of use. Written especially for Japanese students studying English in Japan.
■Major revision of the foundation level text, Airwave Basic, which prioritized students’ interest. Not just limited to listening classes, also suitable for listening and speaking classes.
■The much anticipated advanced level, Airwaves Advanced. With an emphasis on listening, gain the necessary skills to listen to news, lectures and long passages.
Well-known, best-selling listening series' basic level has been revised. Updated contents and design while keeping its usability. More focus on listening skills, lighter design which can be completed even in one-semester course.Learning points designed for Japanese students and familiar topics for beginners.
■Students will improve their listening skills by listening to audio of various Guinness World Records topics.
■The interest topics will stimulate students, and the abundant activities will effectively improve listening skills.
■Beginner level text which improves overall practical English communication abilities by focusing on sounds which Japanese people find most difficult, and are indispensable for communication.
■Filled with clever ideas to gain interest of the students such as skills with a story line, video which shows the movements of the mouth, etc.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
A series from renowned TOEIC expert Lin Lougheed, Learning to Listen acknowledges the difficulty that many students have understanding real spoken English and helps them to:
◆listen appropriately
◆understand correctly
◆make sense of what they hear
Above all, Learning to Listen helps students to enjoy the richness and variety of spoken English.
Breaking News Listening
Improving English Skills Through SHADOWING Practice
■Focuses on shadowing (simultaneously listening to and repeating what you hear), a highly effective language learning technique that provides lots of practice with the sounds, intonation, stress patterns and overall rhythm of English
■Presents real world listening examples and language learning tasks in a way that engages young adult learners and allows them to practice language that is meaningful and used in everyday situations
■Includes vocabulary building and comprehension exercises that enable students to understand and discuss current issues and news events in a personal context
Song
Developing Listening Skills through Rock and Pop
■「歌で英語の音声変化を学習するリスニング教材」として,大好評を博したHit Parade Listeningの改訂版。
【変更箇所】
"Heal the World"(Michael Jackson)→"Honesty"(Billy Joel)
■ Hit Parade Listening Third Edition brings English alive with 20 well-known pop melodies sung by famous international artists. ■ Understanding natural spoken English is a challenge for Japanese students, and these enjoyable, catchy songs demonstrate the confusing ‘sound changes’ that occur in everyday speech.
【Song Replacement】
"Heal the World"(Michael Jackson)→"Honesty"(Billy Joel)
Smash Hit Listening: Second Edition
English through Rock & Pop
■学生にもっとも人気の高いポップソング12曲を厳選。リーディングの英文を簡素化し,聞き取りのポイントを日本語でやさしく解説。■初級学習者を想定した学習内容。
【変更箇所】
"We Are the World"(Michael Jackson)→"I Want to Know What Love Is"(Foreigner)
■ Twelve all-time popular songs have been specially selected from the best-selling listening textbook series Hit Parade Listening and Hot Beat Listening. A simpler, easy-to-use format now makes these songs accessible to lower-level learners. ■ Smash hits by great artists allow students to enjoy learning English while listening to music!
【Song Replacement】
"We Are the World"(Michael Jackson)→"I Want to Know What Love Is"(Foreigner)
■Keeps beginners interested with fun, high interest topics.
■Two focused sets of listening exercises in each unit to help improve listening ability.
■Full of expressions and phrases commonly found in daily conversations.
■Teacher's Manual includes extra units.
■ Cubic Listening is a popular series consisting of 12 short listening books graded into four levels from Introduction to Pre-intermediate, and covering a TOEIC range of 250 to 650.
■ Each volume has 20 units (2 pages each) and can be used over a semester or as an intensive course.
■ Tear-out answer sheets that are perfect for TOEIC Test preparation make it easy to chart your students' progress. To top it all, learners can download free audio from www.mlh.co.jp.
■ By listening to brief news reports covering various topics, students will become better able to understand authentic news broadcasts.
■ The Essential Listening series is designed specifically with high-beginner Japanese students in mind. ■ It is a great supplementary series, and lessons take about 15 minutes to complete.■ It is versatile, and can be used effectively with small or large classes. ■ Two review/self-study CDs are included with the student books.
■ Listening Dictation with VOA, Vol. 1 uses selected topics from the VOA (Voice of America) Special English show, which uses English with slower speed and a simplified vocabulary for non-native speakers of English. Each unit contains extensive dictation tasks and many exercises that help students fully understand the content and expand their listening and writing skills. The audio files are available from www.mlh.co.jp.
■ Listening Here and There is designed to improve flexibility and confidence in intermediate-level Japanese students' listening skills.■ In this textbook, students begin to employ the different levels of listening that we all use naturally: listening for general meaning and specific details, working with sounds (such as contraction, elision, assimilation and reduction), using listening comprehension strategies, and strategies for how to respond appropriately. ■ Exercises develop these strategies, helping your students overcome difficulties they had with spoken English.
■ Listening Power aims to develop the listening skills of beginner-level students through an integrated task- and skills-based approach.
■ Listening Power has a wide range of graded listening activities, based on real-life situations and backed up with great illustrations. ■ Pre-listening activities build your students' confidence and relevant, interesting topics keep them motivated.
■ Listening Power aims to develop the listening skills of beginner-level students through an integrated task- and skills-based approach. ■ Listening Power 2 develops listening skills in young adult learners. ■ Students improve their ability to listen to spoken English through a comprehensive range of tasks, including listening for the main idea, listening for specific information, and drawing inferences.
■ Students today are familiar with the idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle. ■ The Looking Back, Moving Forward series focuses on grass-roots efforts such as “slow food” and “fair trade” and it provides a much-needed look at the environmental issues all around us. ■ It thus enables students to improve their general command of English and come to think in English through reading, listening to and discussing various environmental issues.