Designed with an eye to CLIL (content and language integrated learning), Connections is intended to meet the functional and notional requirements of EFL teaching at CEFR levels B1-B2 .
Objectives:
• Language practice: development of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills, including the ESP requirements of university courses.
• Testing: the exercises are mainly in the style of tasks from the FCE exam papers (Reading, Writing, Use of English, Listening, Speaking)
• Focus on content: the topics for study include a wide range of subjects; History, Literature, Business, Science etc.
Features:
• Sixty full-colour units, each of which deals with a new topic
• Three sections – Reading, Listening and Speaking, Use of English and Writing – which cover the task types of the five papers of the FCE exam.
• Three Cross-sectional Maps offering examples of possible itineraries to follow.
• An audio CD containing the listening activities.
A teacher’s guide is available separately.