Powerhouse Intermediate Course Book - Softcover

Evans, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582298792 ISBN 13: 9780582298798

Publisher: Longman, 1998

Synopsis

Powerhouse is a dynamic full-length course with material from sources including business personalities, Holllywood films, magazines and journals.  It has a straightforward 'dip-in' structure where each unit is based around a different topic and each double-page spread is a complete lesson.

 

About this title

About the Author

David Evans is a writer, broadcaster and trainer who specialises in English language teaching. He is the author of seventeen ELT books, including Longman’s successful Powerhouse and Powerbase courses, and he has given lectures and workshops in over thirty countries around the world from Argentina to Uzbekistan.

David took a degree in English at Cambridge University, and then worked as an English language teacher in London and Paris.  In 1991 he joined the BBC World Service as a radio producer,  where he was trained in radio journalism, drama production and editing. Over the next ten years, he made hundreds of educational programmes on subjects from business to pop music to poetry. During the mid to late 1990s he spent a lot of time in the countries of the former Soviet Union, where he set up and ran joint broadcasting ventures in several countries.

David still broadcasts regularly for the BBC, but he now concentrates mainly on writing educational and business books, as well as doing some teacher training.

He is married with a young daughter and lives in north London

From the Back Cover

Powerhouse is a two-level business English course that concentrates on the language and skills needed by busy professionals and students.
Authentic ¿ Flexible ¿ Comprehensive

• Uses original texts from magazines, newspapers, literature and the movies to motivate learners and teach key business skills.
• Contains up-to-date business stories, and features well-known business personalities to explore some of the latest business ideas.
• Use in sequence or ¿dip-in¿ at any point for maximum flexibility.
• Course materials are clear, adaptable and easy-to-use.
• Includes practice with vocabulary, grammar, business skills, and social English.
• Extension activities for students to do on their own.
• A Study Book provides extensive practice and tests for self-study use.
• A Teacher¿s Book includes additional photocopiable material and background information to support busy teachers.
• A Video draws on authentic materials including films, television drama, broadcast news/information programs, and so on.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582298792
• ISBN 13: 9780582298798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160