New English File

"Texts must be interesting enough for students to want to read them in their own language. Otherwise, how can we expect students to want to read them in English?"

This is the authors' golden rule when they choose texts and topics for every level of New English File.

It ensures you get material that learners will enjoy reading and will want to talk about. Texts such as 'Are there really 31 hours in the day?' really help to generate opinion and discussion.

They create a desire to communicate.

So, having created the desire, New English File then helps you to develop learners' communication skills. One way it does this is with a strong focus on pronunciation.

Research shows that poor pronunciation is a major contributor to breakdowns in communication (Jennifer Jenkins: The Phonology of English as an International Language, Oxford University Press).

New English File integrates pronunciation into every lesson - the 'little and often' approach - but that's not all.

The unique English File Sounds Chart puts a picture to each sound in the phonetic alphabet, so learners find it easier to remember the sounds and, ultimately, improve their pronunciation.

A Workbook melléklete az úgynevezett MultiROM StudyLink, mely CD-ROM és audio CD is egyben.

Ezzel az English File igazi self-study anyagként használható.

Számítógépen videós helyzetgyakorlatok, interaktív feladatok, a könyv hangos szójegyzéke valamint a fonetikus jelek szintén hangos gyűjteménye segíti a tanulást.

CD lejátszóba helyezve pedig a munkafüzethez tartozó hanganyagot találhatjuk rajta.

A CD-n található anyag kiváló ösztönzés az otthoni önálló tanulásra, hiszen megkönnyíti az órán tanult szavak és kifejezések átismétlését, méghozzá azok kiejtésével együtt.

A New English File sorozatunk első köteteihez már online készségfejlesztő gyakorlatok is készültek!
A New English File Online Skills Practice oldalai nemcsak egy ingyenes tesztet, hanem egy egyedülálló gyakorló feladatsort kínálnak a tanulóknak minden egyes ’File’ feldolgozásakor a négy nyelvi készség fejlesztéséhez. A tanár pedig a hozzá tartozó Learning Management System révén a tanulói munkáról kaphat folyamatos tájékoztatást, kijelölheti a feladatokat, ellenőrizheti az eredményeket, és mindezzel egyedülállóan megkönnyítheti saját munkáját. A gyakorlatokat a New English File Multi-ROM-os munkafüzeteinek kódjával lehet elérni. A kód a munkafüzethez tartozó CD-kre van rányomtatva.

A részletekről szívesen adunk bővebb felvilágosítást telefonon (13720167) vagy e-mailben: info.Hungary@oup.com.

Updating Teaching Files című konferenciánk egyik nagy szenzációja volt a New English File legújabb komponense, az elektronikus whiteboard-okhoz készült multimédiás tananyag. Valójában a New English File köteteinek teljes anyaga elektronikus formában megtalálható egy-egy CD-ROM-on, melyen elképzelhetetlen mennyiségű plusz funkció segítségével szinte bármit megtehetünk a tananyaggal. Jerry Lambert, oxfordi kollégánk azért felhívta a figyelmünket, hogy a whiteboard használatát egy plusz érdekességnek és segédeszköznek gondolja, mely mellett a tanórának lényegében a szokásos módon kell zajlania.

Kívánjuk, hogy minden iskola előbb-utóbb hozzájuthasson egy whiteboard-hoz, hiszen óriási motiváló ereje van a mai tizenévesek számára.


New Technologies in the ELT Classroom

Az alábbiakban Jerry Lambert részletes leírását olvashatják az IWB-k és az iPack használatáról.
Developments in ELT classroom technology have tended to be quite slow and steady over the years. Cassettes, audio CDs, and MP3 players all essentially do the same thing, as do video players and DVD players though the newer technologies offer better sound and picture quality and much improved functionality. Computers have been extremely useful in teaching and selfstudy, but not often in a classroom context. However, there is now a piece of technology which offers a genuinely new classroom experience the Interactive Whiteboard. Interactive Whiteboards are powerful teaching tools, and they put a huge range of resources at teachers' fingertips. IWBs can be used for virtually anything from a 'traditional' language presentation to showing videos, playing music, doing interactive activities, and exploring the internet. They motivate students, they're convenient, and they create a real sense of focus in the classroom. For the first time they make multi-media classroom teaching a reality, with teachers able to use published materials, their own materials, and real-world resources like websites.

However, it's worth pointing out that IWBs have some potential pitfalls. One is the expense of equipping a school to have an IWB, a PC, and a data projector in every classroom represents a major investment, and there are significant teacher training implications. There are also basic practical considerations lighting needs to be easily adjustable, the board needs to be carefully positioned so it is easily reached by teachers and easily visible to students, and it's useful to have technical support on hand for when things go wrong. At a pedagogical level IWBs are such powerful tools, and are so imposing in the classroom, that there's a danger that the wide variety of possible classroom interaction patterns may give way to lessons that won't be student-centred, but whiteboardcentred. It's important that this doesn't happen. IWBs shouldn't dominate, and shouldn't trap the teacher at the front of the class they should only be one part of a balanced classroom approach to teaching and learning. They should help teachers, they should open new avenues and allow new kinds of activity and interactivity, but the essence of a successful lesson will remain the same. It is the teacher and the students, not the technology, that will always create good lessons the technology should be there to help.

The New English File iPacks

The New English File iPACKs are being developed for use with Interactive Whiteboards, and also with data projectors and individual PCs. They have been specifically designed to help teachers teach with maximum convenience, impact, and effectiveness, whilst leaving the real essence of the classroom unchanged the successful lesson remains one with a good variety of activities and interaction patterns, where students learn language and language skills, communicate, and enjoy themselves. The New English File iPacks are centred on Student's Book content, but also offer extra features to help teachers and students get the most out of New English File.

They will allow teachers to do all this (and more!):

• show lesson aims
• access revision quizzes for every lesson
• play all the class audio material
• play all the video for the Practical English lessons
• show all the listening and video scripts
• show answer keys to all Student's Book exercises either 'answer by answer' or all at once
• show grammar paradigm tables from the Grammar Bank
• present rules from the Grammar Bank
• play extra grammar games for every lesson
• play audio of all the words/phrases in the Vocabulary Bank
• play Vocabulary Bank games, matching words and pictures
• show Student's Book artwork for open-class scenesetting
• access a lesson by lesson wordlist with audio of every word
• play audio of the English File pronunciation pictures
• show extracts from the Sound Bank
• show a Study Link page for every lesson with a list of self-study and homework resources and material
• show CEF competences covered in each File
• access the Workbook answer key
• use drawing, highlighting, zooming, and note tools
• save annotations for future lessons