Author Description

This book tries to help university students to possess necessary communicative English proficiency. The materials and exercises are designed to allow students to have a lot of practices through interactions and collaborations. The book with ten units are meant to provide learning experiences for sixteen meetings in one semester. In the first meeting, lecturers are expected to provide necessary orientation of the book, discuss the classroom rules and deliver necessary assessment for initial information of the existing proficiency of the students. Two meetings are usually devoted for mid-term and final-term formal assessments. Ten meetings are for the ten units covered in this book. One meeting is for performance-based assessment after learning the first five units. One other meeting is for performance-based assessment after learning the second half of the book. Finally, one meeting is for reviewing all the lessons prior to the final-term assessment.