English Practice for Speakers of Russian: ESL Textbook with Reader, Vocabulary Bank, Grammar Rules, Exercises and Songs

by V V Zubakhin

Overview

English practice for speakers of Russian for beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate students. The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, searching for an accommodation and a job, studying, working etc. The ALARM method utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author had to compose each sentence using only words and rules explained in previous chapters. The second and the following chapters of the Elementary course have only 29 new words each. To make learning process more interesting author uses diverse ways of explaining new material such as games, songs, exercises, FAQs, jokes and sayings. Audio tracks are available on http: //vadim-zubakhin.lppbooks.com/1english_practice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789661529044
Publisher:	Vadim Zubakhin
Publication date:	06/01/2008
Pages:	562
Sales rank:	191,764
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)
Language:	Russian

About the Author

The author has taught English for more than fifteen years to groups and individually. He believes that monotonous teaching suppresses students' motivation. So he uses only efficient, entertaining methods that he has acquired from ESL teachers from different countries. The main method utilizes a person's natural ability to remember words systematically and repeatedly used in the textbook. Another important feature of the book is dialog game planner. It shows students how to build dialogs by asking questions and answering them using various auxiliary verbs.