Skills Builder for Young Learners is a series of books with supplementary material offering systematic practice and development of listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. In particular, the series provides tasks and activities to build those language skills which younger students need in order to communicate effectively and successfully. The books are especially designed for younger students at primary level who are learning English as a foreign language and are between the ages of 7 and 12. The books can supplement any primary course and can be used with all young learners, regardless of their cultural background. The series reflects the main content areas (topics, vocabulary, structures, etc) most commonly taught in syllabuses of primary level coursebooks throughout the world. Text and pictures present tasks in a clear and attractive way, appropriate to the age and interests of primary learners. The series has three key levels: Primary Level 1 - Starters Primary Level 2 - Movers Primary Level 3 - Flyers Skills Builder for Young Learners: Starters 1 is aimed at Primary Level 1. It is designed for children between the ages of 7 and 10 who have completed approximately 40 to 100 hours of English language learning. Components: - Student's Book - Teacher's Book - Class Audio CDs (set of 2) The Student's Book consists of five units, each of which provides classroom work for approximately three 45-minute lessons, depending on the school's programme. Each unit is divided into three sections -Listening, Reading & Writing and Speaking - which provide all of the visual material to be used in the tasks and activities. There is a Thematic Vocabulary List at the end of the book in which the words used at Primary Level 1 are grouped under semantic themes (e.g. Animals, Clothes, etc), as well as under categories such as Adjectives, Useful Expressions and so on. The Teacher's Book provides: - a description of the types of main tasks presented in the Student's Book - suggested lesson procedures, including detailed suggestions for warm-up and follow-up activities to provide further practice in a wider range of language skills - a complete key to all of the exercises - a 'Speaking script' for conducting the activities in the Speaking sections of the Student's Book - complete tapescripts of all the listening material.
