First Lessons: Real English for Real Beginners

Collins COBUILD English Course

by Jane Willis

An English course for real beginners which provides early language exposure and practice and is the ideal lead-in to a full language learning programme, such as Collins COBUILD English Course. Based on research findings of the COBUILD project at Birmingham University, it comprises a teacher's edition, student's edition and two cassettes. Both editions contain wordlists and full tapescripts, and the teacher's edition also includes a useful games appendix. "First Lessons" provides up to 30 hours of language practice and exposure and can be used either as a complete course in its own right for a beginner's class, or to supplement an existing course by providing additional support for real beginners in a class of mixed ability.

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 10, 1990

About the author

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Jane Willis has worked extensively overseas as an English teacher, trainer and writer. She recently retired from Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where she taught English and tutored for 12 years on their Distance Learning Masters in TESOL & TESP programmes, working with teachers world-wide. She still travels widely as an ELT consultant and enjoys attending international conferences.

Her prize-winning books include English for Primary Teachers, a handbook of activities and classroom language, co-authored with Mary Slattery, (Oxford University Press) which has won two awards and been translated into six languages, and Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching, co-edited with Corony Edwards, (Palgrave Macmillan) which won the British Council Innovations Award in 2006.