Lifelike Students book

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 societes. That’s why, together with material such as articles, web-sites, songs, maps and geographical data, Lifelikeemploys 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 Daniel Clowes and Jhumpa Lahiri – exploring and commenting on aspects of their own culture from exciting new angles in language that is fresh, authentic and direct.

Features:

-8 topic areas: home, education, work, food, travel, sports & leisure, fashion & shopping, music & the arts

-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

-Song lines: featuring a song connected to each topic area

-Word Watch: zooming in on specific terms related to the topic

-Number Crunching: statistics, charts and  graphs mapping social and cultural trends

-Artist’s Corner: featuring the work of contemporary artists dealing with an aspect of the topic

-Think Tank: group-based creative projects

-Language Lab: at the end of each unit there are FCE-style exercises and grammar practice

-System of links connecting up texts in different topic areas of the introductory dossier

-Activities covering the four learning skills plus research projects and web-related tasks in the style of  the European Language Portfolio

-Detailed linguistic notes for fast comprehension and vocabulary building

-Audio CD-ROM containing 8 short film clips, 1 for each unit, including The Truman Show, Bend it like Beckham and Lost in Translation with interactive exercises