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This book is designed to encourage students to improve their oral skills using language that is appropriate to their needs. The focus is on speaking and listening. Writing tasks are strictly
limited and are there only to help students complete a speaking task, or to remember language. Each lesson covers a subject for conversation and followed by exercises to help students to:
improve their accuracy and fluency;
use the appropriate language and vocabulary;
practice asking and answering questions;
practice pronunciation.
Lessons begin with a task to introduce the language or vocabulary item, which is then talked about by students.
Listening tasks help students understand the questions they will hear in their daily lives; as well as helping them to practice pronunciation.
A Remember box summarizes what has been practiced in the lesson and acts as a revision aid for students.
本書的設計理念，是在鼓勵學生增進口說技巧，並使用合乎他們需求的單字和句型。本書的重點在於口說和聽力兩部分。書中沒有過多的書寫練習，且此類練習的功能主要是幫助學生順利完成口說練習或記憶單字句型。每一課都涵括一個常見的對話主題，其後的各種練習可以幫助學生：
提升準確度與流利度；
使用適當的語彙和字詞；
練習主動發問和回答問題；
練習發音。
每課都由一個練習活動開始，介紹本課的句型和單字，學生也會在其後的口說練習活動中用到這些單字句型。
聽力練習幫助學生了解日常生活中常聽到的問題，並幫助他們練習發音。
學習備忘錄整理出本課主要練習的內容，同時也可提供學生作為複習之用。
