LifeLike + CD/CD-ROM

LifeLike offers a new approach to learning about the cultures of the English-speaking world, presenting them primarily from an insider's viewpoint. Rather than considering culture in terms of abstract information or common-place assumptions, LifeLike focuses on real-life experience and the way culture shapes daily life in today's multicultural societies. That's why, together with material such as articles, web sites, songs, maps, geographical data, LifeLike employs a range of short, accessible passages of fiction, essay and autobiography by young writers from all over the English speaking world from Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby to Jhumpa Lahiri exploring and commenting on aspects of their own culture from exciting new angles in language that is fresh, authentic and direct. LifeLike is subdivided into 8 topic areas connected to aspects of everyday life, presenting these through the complex, often hybrid identities, practices and affiliations that exist in English speaking countries. Home Education Work Food Travel Sports & Leisure Fashion & Shopping Music & The Arts Special features: An introductory DOSSIER that provides basic information about the human geography and history of the English-speaking world, giving students a general picture of the countries they'll encounter SONGLINES featuring a song connected to each topic area WORDWATCH zooming in on specific terms related to the topic NUMBER CRUNCHING featuring statistics, charts and graphs mapping social and cultural trends ARTIST'S CORNER featuring the work of contemporary artists dealing with some aspect of the topic THINK TANK group-based creative projects LANGUAGE LAB at the end of each unit including First Certificate in English-style exercises and grammar practice LifeLike also includes: A system of links connecting up texts in different topic areas to the introductory dossier. Activities covering the four learning skills plus research projects and web-related tasks in the style of the European Portfolio. Detailed linguistic notes for fast comprehension and vocabulary building. Teachers Book with short revision tests CD.