Touchstone Level 2 Student's Book

Description

Touchstone, together with Viewpoint, is a six-level English program, based on research from the Cambridge English Corpus. Touchstone uses a corpus-informed syllabus ensuring students are learning the language that people really use. Activities include a strong focus on inductive learning, personalized practice, and encouraging learner autonomy. Each Student's Book contains approximately 90 hours of material across 12 topic-based units - with additional grammar and pronunciation practice added for the Second Edition. Student's Book, Level 2 is at the high beginning CEFR level (A1-A2). Review: A top-notch all-skills ESL book - The Touchstone series (1 through 4) is my favorite all-skills ESL series. It has a well-balanced variety of skills practice, the topics are interesting, the recordings for listening are appropriate for the levels while still being challenging, and the graphics are appealing. My favorite part of the Touchstone series, which I have not seen in other series, is Part C of each unit, Conversation Strategies. These sections have valuable information for the English learner, and have even brought to my attention things we do when speaking English that I wasn't aware of. Examples from book 2 include reacting to someone's story, responding to suggestions, using vague expressions, encouraging people to talk -- in each of these, common phrases for these conversation strategies are given, followed by practice using them. This is an engaging and helpful textbook. Review: MUY BIEN - excelente calidad muy bein el envio