Touchstone 2nd edition

Touchstone's unique comprehensive syllabus introduces ‘conversation management' strategies, places special emphasis on teaching vocabulary and vocabulary-learning strategies as well as presenting grammar in natural contexts and truly communicative pronunciation, listening, reading, and writing tasks. These are some of the key features of the Student’s Book:

• Grammar is presented in natural contexts, with inductive ‘Figure it out’ tasks that develop language awareness.
• The Conversation Strategy lessons cover useful phrases and strategies for managing conversations.
• Personalized speaking practice is integrated with all language and skills activities.
• A Vocabulary notebook section, offers practical learning tips and personalised activities while systematically covering vocabulary-building strategies.
• Word sort tasks, encourage students to take an active role in learning new vocabulary.

The Student’s Book is also available in a split edition for shorter courses. There is also a version of the Student’s Book that includes an access code to the Online Workbook.

The Workbook is a natural extension of the Student's Book, providing reinforcement and consolidation of the material in the Student's Book. There are two pages of follow-up activities for each Student's Book lesson. It provides:

• Thorough consolidation and practice of the vocabulary, grammar, and conversation strategies taught in the Student's Book.
• Extra reading and writing activities to reinforce these important skills.
• A wide variety of activity types, with photos and illustrations to provide context and keep students motivated.
• A Progress check at the end of each unit to help students plan further independent study.

As the Student’s Book, it is also available in a split edition for shorter courses.

The interleaved Teacher's Edition contains practical, step-by-step teaching notes for each page of the Student's Book. It also offers:

• Language notes that not only provide an overview of the language presented in each unit but also give useful information, drawn from the Corpus, on the frequency of grammatical forms, words, and expressions.
• A wide variety of extra activities geared to both small and large classes.
• Unit-by-unit Language summaries that include the unit vocabulary and expressions.
• Workbook answer key and audio scripts for recorded material from the Student's Book.

An Assessment Audio CD / CD-ROM bound into the Teacher's Edition contains a photocopiable testing package of:

• Written and oral tests plus mid-term and end-of-book tests
• Written and oral quizzes - one quiz of each type for every unit
• The audio CD provides the recordings for the listening tasks in the testing package as well as audio scripts, and answer keys to support the testing program.

The Class Audio CDs contain all recordings to accompany the Student’s Book.