New Interchange Student's audio cassette 2B: English for International Communication [Audio Cassette]

Jack C. Richards (Author), Jonathan Hull (Author), Susan Proctor (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521626528 | ISBN-13: 978-0521626521 | Publication Date: February 13, 1998 | Edition: 2

New Interchange is a multi-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level. The Student's Audio Cassette B includes all the recorded material from the Class Audio Program, with the exception of the Listening Activities, for units 9-16 of the Student's Book. The Student's Audio program is also available on Audio CD. (Note that the Student's Audio Program is included in the Student's Book/Audio CD Bundle.)

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'Dr Richards has created a very successful tool useful for not only instructing your students but also for inspiring them ... the immediate benefits of using Interchange show themselves very quickly: while the students learn the language in a way that is natural and interesting to them, the teacher learns more about his or her own teaching style (as well as new and effective ways to instruct an ESL class) ... a highly recommendable set of books to use.' Korea, TESOL Journal

Book Description

The Student's Audio Cassette B includes all the recorded material from the Class Audio Program, with the exception of the Listening Activities, for units 9-16 of the Student's Book. The Student's Audio program is also available on Audio CD. (Note that the Student's Audio Program is included in the Student's Book/Audio CD Bundle.)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (February 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521626528
• ISBN-13: 978-0521626521
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 2.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,599,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good English with a Tan, July 23, 2001

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Mason West (South America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Interchange Student's audio cassette 2B: English for International Communication (Audio Cassette)

I teach English in South America, and our students achieve a basic mastery of English from working in their classes, in a multi-media laboratory, and in the three volumes of the New Interchange series. Those who pass through all sixteen levels of classes -- corresponding to three or four units of New Interchange -- master basic English in a little over a year. I am amazed everyday by the reflection of the New Interchange in my students' abilities. The NI program's organization has students ready for rudimentary social conversation in only a week or so, and by the time they reach the end of the series they can talk about most any quotidian thing and many abstractions fluently.

Despite its proven finesse as a text, the series sometimes cries out for deconstruction, which is itself instructive to my students. The music on the accompanying tapes seems cheesy and repetitive, the characters in the conversation unrealistically squeaky (of the Donna Reed / Beaver Cleaver variety), and the text seems annoyingly politically correct on one hand and, on the other, particularly ethno- and geocentric in that peculiarly North American manner. It seems a little strange explaining in South America what a "tan" is or why college-aged youth are in such a hurry to leave their parents' home. It's as if the book assumes every college graduate secures his own apartment with his first paycheck and spends all his weekends at the beach.

Yet it is clear that the book works well and presents concepts from the foundation upward so that students master English conceptually rapidly and well. I recommend the New Interchange series as a textual foundation for any extended (a year or more) program in English.