Internet English helps students develop the skills to surf the Internet, while providing a structured framework to practise their conversation skills through communicative tasks. It can be used in traditional or computer-equipped classrooms.
Key features
■It helps students take full advantage of the Internet as a classroom resource. The Internet provides a variety of topics to satisfy a diverse audience; it gives exposure to real-life English; it is fun and motivating; and it gives students the opportunity to manage their own learning.
■Students do not need to have advanced computer skills to use the course. Three introductory 'Computer Skills Units' bring less-experienced students up to speed on computer terminology, word processing operations, Web-surfing and e-mail.
■Each of the ten 'Web Search Units' follows the same carefully designed structure: students are introduced to the topic, guided through their Web search, then encouraged to share their results with their classmates in a variety of communicative activities.
■Vocabulary-building tasks prepare learners for the words and expressions they may encounter on the Internet.
■Pair work and group work activities give students the chance to share information and opinions and practice their speaking skills.
■A 'Computer Project' in each unit gives students the chance to use their computers and the World Wide Web creatively.
■A 'Language Window' in each unit contains useful grammatical structures that support the conversation tasks in each unit.
■A Teacher's Book gives notes on presenting the units, optional activities, photocopiable resource pages, tests, and lists of useful URLs.
■A dedicated product website ( Internet English) has preselected links to sites that work with each unit's activities
