Other units offer similar organization patterns on different topics: Unit 2 uses entertainment events as prompts for students to make invitations, talk about likes and dislikes, and give directions unit 3 has students explore similarities and differences by describing a family member and comparing their family to a celebrityвЂ™s unit 4вЂ™s goals include suggesting a brand, expressing frustration, describing features, and complaining unit 5 is organized around restaurants, menus and ordering unit 6 has students discuss daily exercise and diet unit 7 focuses on shopping for clothes unit 8 examines types of vacations and travel problems unit 9 looks at different types of vacation transportation and unit 10 explores money, travel, and conversations about prices. The students are then lead through listening, multiple choice, conversation, grammar, pair work, pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, writing, and finally checkpoint activities to gauge their progress.

Unit 1, Getting Acquainted, for example, uses realistic and colorful photos that depict friendly people from different parts of the world in interpersonal settings to prompt students to exchange personal information and introduce someone else. The bookвЂ™s ten units are titled Getting Acquainted Going Out Talking about Families Coping with Technology Eating In, Eating Out Staying in Shape Finding Something to Wear Getting Away Taking Transportation and Shopping Smart.Д®ach of the ten units offers integrated activities that are related to the overall theme of the unit. This book, like the other books in the series, aims to provide opportunities for adult learners to learn natural language by offering teachers a well organized and fully supported, integrated skills text they can use to draw students into situations where they can interact with language in real world ways. Top Notch 1 is the second book of Pearson-LongmanвЂ™s six-level ELT course.

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