Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate) English Readers English for Life Classroom implementation

FEATURES
What are they?
All the units contain feature boxes providing extra 
information and support for the content of the unit as a 
whole. These serve well as fi llers if you have a few spare 
minutes during the lesson or for providing independent 
homework ideas.
Suggested implementation:
1. 
Useful tips:
These blues boxes appear at varying points in 
the units and contain ideas for improving the students’ 
speaking skills. Discuss the tip and decide whether it 
could be useful in your students’ everyday lives.
2.
Language notes:
These green boxes appear at varying 
points through the units and contain additional 
information about language from the 
Conversations
. 
They can be used as a starting point for discussion, 
or to elicit further examples of the language identifi ed.

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Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate)
English Readers
English for Life
Classroom implementation
Speaking
aims to help students improve how they read in 
practical real-life situations and to widen students’ range of 
vocabulary in line with A2 expectations. 
The book contains twenty units, each of which can provide 
the basis of a lesson. They are divided across fi ve sections:
1.
What’s your news?
Meeting and describing people, 
talking about things and places.
2.
What do you fancy?
Making arrangements and requests, 
being a customer and speaking on the phone.
3.
What do you mean?
Developing conversations and 
checking understanding.
4. 
What’s wrong?
Complaints, problems, apologies and 
thank-yous.
5.
What do you think?
Agreeing, disagreeing, and giving 
opinions and feedback.
All the units in 
Speaking
have the same structure and once 
you get to know the sections you will quickly be able to 
create your own lesson plan. Each time you see this symbol 
in the explanations below, it indicates a new section of 
the unit.