New Headway Beginner Teacher’s Book 4th edition PDF download
New Headway Beginner Teacher’s Book 4th edition PDF
New Headway Beginner, Fourth Edition
Overview: New Headway Beginner, Fourth Edition is designed for adult and young adult beginners. It is ideal for those who are true beginners or for students who have previously learned some English but do not yet feel confident to advance. This course helps them review before progressing.
Teaching Approach:
- New language is introduced gradually and systematically, in manageable amounts, and in a logical sequence.
- Listening material is provided on two class CDs.
- Vocabulary is carefully selected to avoid overload.
- The course includes numerous controlled practice activities to build beginners’ confidence.
- Simple skills work incorporates manageable communicative activities suitable for low-level students.
- Everyday English sections cover social and functional language, as well as survival skills.
Course Structure: Each unit in New Headway Beginner, Fourth Edition includes:
- Starter: A warm-up linked to the unit’s topic or grammar, often reviewing previous content.
- Presentation of New Language: New language is presented through texts, often dialogues, which students can read and listen to simultaneously. This helps with spelling, pronunciation, form, and use.
- Practice: A variety of controlled and freer practice exercises focusing primarily on speaking and listening, but also including reading and writing. Activities include information gap exercises, mingles, information transfer listening, questionnaires, and personalized tasks.
- Vocabulary: A strong lexical syllabus with carefully graded and recycled vocabulary. Lexical sets complement grammatical input and are chosen for their usefulness in everyday life. Students also learn about collocations and practice forming high-frequency verbs.
- Skills Work: Always includes speaking, combined with reading, listening, and/or writing.
- Everyday English: Focuses on social and functional language, and survival skills.
Detailed Components:
Starter: Designed as a warm-up that links directly to the unit’s topic or grammar, often revising input from a previous unit.
Presentation of New Language:
- Presented through texts, often dialogues, which students can read and listen to at the same time.
- Helps students relate spelling to sounds, aiding pronunciation, form, and use.
- Sometimes two presentation sections to avoid overwhelming students with too much new language at once.
- Main verb forms taught include: “to be,” Present Simple, “there is/are,” Past Simple, “can/can’t,” “I’d like,” and Present Continuous for now and future, “going to.”
- The course avoids teaching “have got” due to potential confusion with its Present Perfect form and opts for “have” with do/does/did forms for consistency.
- Grammar Spots in the presentation sections focus students’ attention on the unit’s language, ending with a cue to the Grammar Reference section at the book’s back.
Practice:
- Contains a mix of controlled and freer practice exercises.
- Primarily involves speaking and listening but also includes reading and writing.
- Activities such as information gap exercises, mingles, information transfer listening, questionnaires, and personalized tasks.
- Exercises aimed at overt analysis of grammar, like “Check it.”
Vocabulary:
- Features a strong lexical syllabus with carefully graded and recycled vocabulary.
- Lexical sets complement grammatical input and are chosen for everyday usefulness.
- Students learn everyday words related to food, sports, numbers, dates, travel, time, jobs, describing people and places, shopping, sightseeing, and expressing feelings.
- Exposure to collocations, working on adjective + noun patterns, and high-frequency verbs like “have lunch” and “go shopping.”
- Focus on other patterns like adjectives and their opposites, and verbs and their opposites.
Skills Work:
- Regular listening sections in dialogue or monologue form provide practice of unit language and help develop the ability to understand the main message of a text later in the course.
Reading At the beginning of the course, the reading material is tightly controlled and graded, ensuring that students encounter only one or two unfamiliar words. As the course advances, readings become longer and contain slightly more new vocabulary. This helps students practice handling unfamiliar words and prepares them for longer texts at the Elementary level.
Speaking In the presentation sections, students practice the pronunciation and intonation of new language. The practice sections include less controlled exercises that lead to freer speaking practice. Many speaking exercises are based on listening and reading activities, including regular role-plays. Speaking opportunities are provided before a text to introduce the topic and create interest, and after a text, often in the form of discussions.
Writing Writing exercises are generally small in scope. Students might write about their best friend, a postcard, a short description of a town they know, or a holiday description.
Everyday English This crucial part of the New Headway Beginner, Fourth Edition syllabus includes language input and practice in:
- Survival skills: numbers, dates, the alphabet, prices, recognizing signs, and asking for directions.
- Social skills: social expressions and greetings.
- Functional areas: making requests, shopping, and expressing feelings.
In these sections, there is sometimes an element of ‘phrasebook language.’ For example, in Unit 7, “Can I…?” is introduced in various situations without deep analysis of the grammar of “can” as a modal verb. The goal is for students to understand how to use the phrase politely to get what they want.
Grammar Reference Located at the back of the Student’s Book, this section is intended for home use, serving as a revision or reference tool.
Revision The new iTutor disc that accompanies the Student’s Book allows students to review and revise the content through interactive exercises. Additionally, there is a photocopiable activity for each of the 14 units at the back of the Teacher’s Book, also featured on the Teacher’s Resource Disc (TRD), along with 14 additional photocopiable activities. The TRD also includes 14 Unit tests, 14 Skills tests, four Stop and check tests, three Progress tests, and an Exit test.
Workbook The Workbook revisits and practices all language input (grammatical, lexical, and functional). It now comes with the iChecker disc, allowing students to test themselves throughout the course. The disc includes Writing Support activities and worksheets, pronunciation, and listening exercises, including listen-and-repeat exercises and unseen listening activities, which are especially beneficial for students lacking confidence in speaking or having listening/pronunciation issues. Students can refer to the tapescripts on Workbook page 88.
Teacher’s Book with Teacher’s Resource Disc The Teacher’s Resource Disc inside the back cover of the Teacher’s Book contains additional printable material to support the course. It includes customizable versions of all 28 photocopiable worksheets, with tips on modifications to make activities more applicable to students. The Disc also includes all testing materials (Unit tests, Stop and check tests, Progress tests, Exit test, and Skills tests with audio files) and the Student’s Book reference materials (Tapescripts, Word list, and Grammar Reference with related exercises).
Other Materials for New Headway Beginner
Video New video clips and classroom worksheets are available on the new Headway Beginner Fourth Edition iTools. There are 14 clips, one for each unit, with language and themes linked to the Student’s Book units. Students can access the videos on their iTutor disc. Most clips follow a documentary style and include native speaker interviews.
Teacher’s Resource Book This contains photocopiable games and activities to supplement the New Headway Beginner syllabus.
Conclusion The primary criterion for selecting every activity in New Headway Beginner, Fourth Edition is its usefulness for the survival of a low-level student in an English-speaking environment. The aim is to lay the foundations for a successful and enjoyable language-learning journey.
Contents
- Teacher’s Book
Format:PDF
Size: 5.99 MB
Pages:151
Series:New Headway
Level:Beginner
Edition:Fourth Edition
Date:2011
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