New English File: Elementary Level [Paperback]

Lindsay Clandfield (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0194384268 | ISBN-13: 978-0194384261 | Publication Date: April 15, 2004

This is the elementary coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other.

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About the Author

Clive Oxenden has taught English and trained teachers for 23 years, mainly in Spain but also in Turkey, Kuwait, Algeria, and the UK, where he was the RSA tutor at Padworth College in Berkshire. He has spent the last fifteen years teaching at the British Council, Valencia.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Elt (April 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0194384268
• ISBN-13: 978-0194384261
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,806,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New English File Elementary, July 20, 2006

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Marcelo Esteban Mauricio (San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New English File (Paperback)

New English File, as its name suggests, is the new and improved version of English File. Unlike the original English File, which came in four levels (Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate), the new version is a revision of the first two levels (Beginner and Pre-Intermediate.)
Unlike the original English File 1, which is divided into 10 files or units, the new version has 9 files for both levels. Also unlike the previous version, where you would encounter several sections on each file from A to (sometimes) H, the files in the new edition only have four sections: A, B, C and D.
A new addition to the new version is the MultiROM, which contains both an audio CD (in the original edition refered to as the "Listen and Speak" cassette/CD) and a CD-ROM, which the original English File did not have. The CD-ROM part of the CD contains the videos from the New English File video program available in both DVD and VHS format. If you play the MultiROM on a regular CD player, one of the sections will be the Mini-Phrasebook, in which, when you hear a sentence, you respond to it. Here's an example of how the Mini-Phrasebook works:

YOU HEAR: Hello, how are you?
YOU SAY: Fine, thanks or OK, thanks or whatever you use to say when asked that question in public.

Also, there has been a change on the number of cassettes/CDs for the Class Audio Program. Whereas English File 1 had 3 cassettes or 4 CDs for the Class Audio Program, New English File has 3 Cassettes/CDs for the Class Audio Program.


Thank you for your attention.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why doesn't the publisher describe the booK?, August 4, 2010

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Emil Posavac (Franklin, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: English File - New Edition. Upper-Intermediate. Part A Student's Book, Workbook with Key und Multi-CD-ROM (Paperback)

I gave this a 3 for "Unknown." Why is there so brief of a description? Possible buyers would like to know more about any book than is given here. What is the point of the word "file" in the title. I would guess that there might be something special or at least different in this ESL book, but the author and publisher have chosen to use the silent approach.