Information collection & exchange

about listening to English, so that they won't just freeze when someone speaks to them? 
Chapter Four will help you ease your students into activities in which they are listening to "real life" 
messages. You will be able to give your students a lot of exposure to different kinds of natural spoken 
messages. They will gain in confidence as they learn to pick out what they need to understand from the 
message and respond in appropriate ways. 
School systems in most countries put a lot of emphasis on the written language. But you may be dissatisfied 
with the way your reading lessons have gone. In desperation you may ask Is there any way to teach 
reading so that it is more interesting? How can I make the reading of English more useful for my 
students? 
Reading lessons become tedious when the teacher and students have too narrow a view of what reading 
really is. Chapter Five shows you that reading is more than translating or discussing excerpts from literary 
works. Sometimes people read advertisements, instructions, timetables, or product labels. Sometimes 
they read in order to gather information for a report or to prepare for an examination. Greater variety in 
the types of reading selections and more purposeful tasks to follow up on the reading will make your 
reading lessons both more interesting and more useful. 
Your students may worry about learning vocabulary, and you too may want to know What is the best way 
to learn vocabulary? 

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In Chapter Five you will see that memorizing vocabulary lists is not the most effective way to go about 
learning vocabulary. Sample exercises will also show you that there is more to know about a word than 
its meaning. 
Even experienced teachers may quail at the prospect of having to teach students how to write compositions 
in English. If you find yourself in such a position, you may have very basic questions, such as What should I