This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and
strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social
communication in both academic and non-academic environments on campus.
It encourages an 'interactional' rather than a 'speaker focused'
language development approach. Drawing on corpus data, it exposes
students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and grammar,
illustrates the most effective conversation maintenance and
communication strategies and draws attention to the socio-cultural
aspects of communication.
Campus Talk comprises two textbooks. Each textbook contains four
instructional units and each unit is based on situations and
conversations that students will come across in their everyday lives on
campus.
Part 1, comprising units 1-4 covers areas such as striking up a
conversation, sharing and responding to news, making small talk,
managing group communication, expressing and reacting to opinions,
expressing, responding and talking about feelings and making and
responding to requests. Each unit includes:
- Enabling, input-based and interactional tasks and activities
- Usage-informed vocabulary list
- Main production task
- Self-assessment
With a variety of challenging tasks and activities and plenty of
opportunities to practice and engage in self-reflection and
self-assessment, students using these books will grow their confidence
and enhance their abilities to express themselves clearly, appropriately
and effectively. The workbooks are aimed at upper-intermediate and
advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional
language awareness and develop active listening skills.
