Reading & Writing: Targets 1: Teacher's Book

Reading & Writing Targets 1, for learners of English at CEF level A1.2, provides systematic development of students' reading and writing skills. The book consists of 17 units and is planned to be taught in 20-25 teaching hours. The topics of the units have been carefully selected to appeal to and motivate learners. Each unit begins with a text, based on a real-life communicative situation, which not only develops reading skills but also serves as a model for the students' own written work. A variety of reading skills - skimming for overall understanding, scanning, predicting a topic from visual prompts or clues, reconstructing a text, inferring, recognising word equivalences, jigsaw reading, etc - are introduced, taught and practised to help learners read more effectively in English. The exercises that follow are specially chosen to expand learners' passive and active vocabulary and feed them with ideas which can be used by learners in their writing projects. Grammar structures are also presented and practised in a meaningful context to help learners produce successful pieces of writing. The text types presented in this book include informal letters, articles, recipes, advertisements, postcards, film reviews, stories through pictures, emails and notes. Useful Writing Tip boxes help learners understand the structure of each piece of writing. Paragraph Plans are also provided to give the students step-by-step guidance. These plans are intended to be used in class for discussion before learners write their own pieces. Teachers are advised to elicit, in class, the points which learners should include in their piece of writing and always to have some students complete the task orally in class before the exercise is assigned as written homework. The Photo File section at the end of the Student's Book provides pictures which students can use to decorate their writing projects for Units 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 12.