2024 FOURTH YEAR SPECIFICATIONS

•	ENGLISH FILE INTERMEDIATE  4th Ed.    U. 1-2, 4 to 8 (St's Book & Workbook)

•	HIGH LIFE LOW LIFE

OMIT:  Units 3, 9 and 10, be/get used to (Grammar Bank 5B)

OPTIONAL Can you understand this text? sections
                        Pages:   13(ex 7-8), 22 & 23 (except 8-video listening), 48 (only 5-Listening), 

NOTE: We suggest you deal with unit 8 before unit 7 so you can start practising Reported Speech earlier. 

The coursebook gives intensive practice of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

SPEAKING The purpose is both fluency and accuracy. Make your students give their opinions freely and interact with their partners as naturally as possible. There are plenty of speaking activities with stimulating topics.

VOCABULARY Every lesson in the book has a clear lexical aim. Many lessons are linked to the Vocabulary Banks which help present and practise topic-based vocabulary in class and help for revision.

LISTENING AND VIDEO All the listening and video material can be found on The Teacher’s Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice, student’s eBook and the Class audio CDs.

VIDEO
*Practical English sections. There are five video episodes.
*Video listening: (pp 19, 35, *51 optional*, 83 and 99) These instances of video help students further develop their listening skills, so make the most of them.
*Revise and Check: It’s 2-page section every two units. The right-hand page provides a series of skills-based listening challenges in the street interviews included in the section called Can you understand these people?

EF STUDENT’S BOOK ONLINE PRACTICE For students to practise and develop their language skills. Students can find the class audio and videos here. Encourage your students to use it. They access it following the instructions found in the card inside the Student’s Book.
TEACHER’S GUIDE We strongly recommend the use of this book which will guide you throughout the course. Besides the notes corresponding to each unit, you will find interesting and highly useful photocopiable materials to use with your students: grammar, communicative and vocabulary activities. It also includes the Teacher’s Resource Centre containing all the Student’s Book audio/video files and scripts, detailed lesson plans from the Teacher’s Guide, answer keys, all the photocopiable activities from the T’s guide, the Workbook audio files and scripts and Tests and Assessment material. 

UNIT TESTS We recommend the Quick and File Tests.

We suggest that you join OXFORD TEACHERS’ CLUB, and click on English File Teacher’s Site for useful resources. www.oup.com/elt/teacher/englishfile and refer your students to www.oup.com/englishfile 

WRITING Consult the Writing Section in the Student's Book.
                     See 2024 Types of Writing for Teens and Adults on our website.

READER It would be advisable to give students some type of guidance, for instance, pre, while and after reading activities, content questions, role-playing of important parts of the story, gap-filling, matching and True-False exercises, etc. You will find the reader’s worksheets at www.cambridge.org/elt/readers. 

Please help your students develop their reading skills by encouraging them to read the story and exploit it through different activities: comparing, contrasting, giving opinions and accounting for them, etc. Do not just ask students to ‘retell’ the story. By no means should you give them just a summary to study by heart. 
Students are expected to read the story at home, not in class

*	For further Grammar practice you may consult ‘Essential Grammar in Use’ (Intermediate) by R. Murphy, and ‘Oxford English Grammar intermediate e-book´, by M. Swan and C. Walter.