INTRODUCTION

   This interactive EFL program teaches the English Language in real contexts and situations. All of the material in the CCLS Program is totally integrated so that the students develop the four language skills — listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. And through the dynamic use of authentic materials from both the broadcast and print media, it helps students to actively and enjoyably participate in each step of the learning process.

   CCLS has based all its courses on what constitutes the most basic, frequently used, and culturally essential vocabulary and grammatical patterns of English. CCLS has extrapolated those structural patterns and vocabulary items from volumes of transcriptions of conversations dealing with popular topics, TV and radio programs, commercials, movies, cartoons, newspapers and magazines, and “how to” pamphlets. In other words, CCLS has devised a program based on various types of situations the learner of English is bound to encounter.

   Non-English speaking students can be grouped according to predictable characteristic difficulties arising from their particular mother tongues. Trying to minimize those difficulties in an effort to enhance the students' potential for success, CCLS has designed special teaching material geared to cope with cross-language differences stemming from the student's first language.

   All basic CCLS courses consist of a Textbook, a CALL Workbook and a special Listening Comprehension Manual designed to aid students develop competency in the four basic language skills. CCLS has also prepared a series of special supplementary workbooks whose self-study format enables students to work through the material at their own speed.

BOOK 1-2

   Book 1-2 is a condensed version of Books 1 and 2 of CCLS WAY AHEAD — GETTING STARTED, and is designed for adult students, young and old, who have had no previous training in English.

   Situational dialogues familiarize the students with both formal and everyday American speech and serve as the basis for all subsequent classroom work.

   Book 1-2 contains 572 new words.