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About the Series

The New! Learning to Communicate series is a revised edition of the highly successful communicative series, ‘Learning to Communicate’. An innovative, need-based and learner-centred course for the pre-primary, primary and middle classes, it is designed to teach students the basic skills of communication and to use English effectively and with confidence in all situations.

The book completely meets the new NCERT guidelines and syllabi. Most of the substantive revisions and modifications in this book are a result of the excellent feedback we have received from the users of this book.

A few significant features of the new course are:

• the addition of listening activities in each lesson
• the inclusion of six poems in each book
• the use of new, relevant and contemporary textual material

The new course contains material that is age compatible as well as challenging for the student. The revised coursebooks include more interactive exercises, such as listening and speaking tasks and project work. Additional grammar notes explain the use of a particular item.

The activity books reflect the changes in the coursebooks and also include additional sample oral and written tests, which provide guidelines for testing students in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The New! Learning to Communicate is a stepping stone to New! Learning to Communicate for the Middle School.
The various features of the series are as follows:

Themes

The themes reflect the Core Elements of the National Policy of Education, and aim at enabling the learner to become a member of a ‘humane and enlightened society’.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary exercises help the learner use English effectively as a means of communication and expression.

Content

The book exposes the learner to good samples of contemporary English, such as stories, plays, poems, letters and pages from a diary.

Skills

The course addresses all aspects of language learning; listening, speaking, reading and writing, grammar and vocabulary, communication skills, study skills and literary skills.

Language functions

It underscores communicative tasks, which figure in each lesson, and gives the students ample opportunities to use English in real-life situations for performing different language functions.

Activities

All the activities have been contextualized and present language in natural situations. There is nothing artificial or contrived about them.

Projects

Each book contains Projects, which further make the course learner-centred.