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      This book is the first volume of a series of four textbooks in English as a foreign language with the over-all title “Intensive Course in English: Intermediate and Advanced.” The study materials of the four volumes are also provided in recorded form on 150 pre-recorded tapes, as follows:


Volume 1	Intermediate	Tapes 1-30
Volume 2	Advanced, Book 1	Tapes 31-80
Volume 3	Advanced, Book 2	Tapes 81-130
Volume 4	Specialized Studies(Education)	Tapes 131-150

Organization of Materials

    The Intermediate Course provides material designed for approximately four weeks of intensive study. Although the exact number of hours devoted to a lesson or study unit will vary with the local teaching situation, it is recommended that each study unit (consisting of an odd-numbered lesson and the following even- numbered lesson) be used for four to six hours of combined classroom and language laboratory work.

    The course includes materials in textbook form and in pre- recorded form on tape, designed to serve as remedial lessons for students who have a basic familiarity with English and are preparing to move into intermediate and advanced studies. It is assumed that students who have studied English in secondary schools will have had a limited amount of training in speaking English and a greater amount of training in reading and translating the language. Emphasis throughout this course, therefore, is on oral-aural training.

     The thirty lessons of the Intermediate Course are of three types: lessons that introduce new reading and dialog materials (the odd-numbered lessons); lessons that provide dialog practice, as well as intonation, pronunciation, and grammar drill (the even-numbered lessons); and, finally, two review lessons, numbers 29 and 30. All of the materials except those marked “Classroom Practice and Homework Only” are recorded on tape.


Suggestions to the Instructor

The Odd-Numbered Lessons

     The reading selections (Part A: Text) deal with subjects of general interest. A procedure for this part of the lesson that has been found effective is for the instructor to read the text to the class at normal speed (students' books open), stopping at the end of each paragraph to make necessary explanations of vocabulary or structure. After the reading is finished, the instructor has the students close their books and then reads the article again. General discussion of the content and check-up questions complete this part of the lesson.

     The dialogs (Part B) are everyday conversational situations involving the same general subject-matter as the readings. They should be memorized by the students. The instructor reads the dialog to the students (books open), making sure that any comprehension questions are cleared up. Then he has the students close their books, and reads the dialog again. Choral and individual repetition follow. (It is not expected that the students' mastery of the dialog will be achieved at the end of one class period; additional drill on the dialog is provided in the following even-numbered lesson.) The Expressions for Repetition at the end of the dialogs are useful idiomatic and conversational items for additional drill.

     The conversation practices (Part C) are series of questions or comments with expanded answers. They differ from the dialogs in that they provide practice with material that may be used in a variety of conversational situations. The classroom procedure may be the same as for the dialogs (though students are not expected to memorize these practices). After choral and individual repetition, a student may ask his neighbor a question, the neighbor then answers the question and asks the following question of the next neighbor, and so on. Substitutions in vocabulary (from the learner's environment, for example) lend interest to this part of the lesson.

The Even-Numbered Lessons

     The dialog repetition (Practice 1) is a review of the dialog materials already presented in Part B of the preceding odd-numbered lesson. If language laboratory facilities are available, this part of the lesson will follow the intensive laboratory practice. Students should practice the dialog until they are able to reproduce it in class without hesitation and act it out with their books closed.

     The pronunciation drills (Practice 2) are a systematic presentation of the English vowels and consonants. In these drills, mastery of the sounds is the important thing, and should be insisted upon. The individual words in the drills were chosen because they are illustrative of the sounds being drilled, and need not be learned as vocabulary items, though the teacher may comment on the meanings if it seems desirable. The arrows in the book (across or down the page) indicate the direction in which the drill is read on the tape. Classroom drill should not be restricted to these particular ways of reading the drills, but should include the repetition of the words in all possible sequences, both chorally and individually (books closed).

     The intonation and stress drills (Practice 3) isolate many of the problems students have in achieving easy and readily understood fluency in English. It is extremely important in these drills that native speed of utterance be maintained. Classroom procedures are similar to those for the pronunciation drills, except that each item must be drilled as a unit.

     The grammar exercises (Practice 4) are intended as a review of elementary grammatical structures with sufficient drill so that they become automatic for the student. The first exercise is spoken on the tape; the others, which appear in the textbook only, may be used for oral drill in the classroom and as homework assignments.

Use of the Tapes

    Each lesson has an accompanying tape with the same number, so that, for example, Lesson 11 and Tape 11 cover the same material. In the language laboratory equipped with individual record-playback machines, the student should be encouraged to practice each tape over and over, and to return to preceding tapes for drill on items that have caused him difficulty or are not thoroughly mastered. In laboratories with group listening facilities, each tape may be played twice during a laboratory hour, with the remaining time devoted to a review of preceding tapes. The laboratory supervisor must always be alert to see that students are repeating the material in a normal voice. If no laboratory facilities are available but it is possible to use a tape recorder in the classroom, the tapes may be played for the students as part of the class hour, to give the students training in listening to different native English speakers.

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INTENSIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH was written and prepared by the Materials Development Staff of English Language Services, Inc., under the co-chairmanship of Grace Stovall Mancill (for the Intermediate volume), Winifred E. Jones (for the Advanced volumes), and Marie D. Gadsden and Donald C. Roberts (for the Special Studies volume). A. L. Davis, assisted by Mr. Roberts, was over-all editor, and typography and composition were under the direction of E. W. Brockman. The audio-linguist in charge of preparing the tapes was J. Hartley Jones; assistant laboratory technician was Ibrahim Soliman. Participating members of the staff were Edwin T. Cornelius, Jr., Willard D. Sheeler, Harry L. Jones, Patricia J. McElhiney, and Phyllis Ann Charnley.

     The staff wishes to express its appreciation to the administration and teachers of the American University Alumni Language Center, Bangkok, Thailand; the American Language Center, Rabat, Morocco; the Binational Center in Mexico City: USOM in Tehran, Iran; The Bourguiba School, Tunis, Tunisia; and to Mrs. James J. Passarelli in Mogadiscio, Somalia, for their comments and helpful criticisms of the preliminary version of the materials of this course, distributed and tested during the fall of 1997

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SERVICES, INC.
800 Eighteenth Street, N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20006 June, 1998

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  7. Text : Food
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  9. Text : Shelter
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  11. Text : Clothing
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  13. Text : Transportatioin
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  15. Text : Transportation (continued)
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  17. Text : Communications
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  19. Text : Writting and Printing
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  21. Text : Education, Elementary and Secondary Schools
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  23. Text : The Workingman
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  25. Text : The Professions
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  27. Text : Recreation and Entertainment
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