First Certificate Gold Students Book New Edition - Softcover

Burgess, Sally; Acklam, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582429692 ISBN 13: 9780582429697

Publisher: Longman, 2000

Synopsis

• Builds students' confidence by explaining what they have to do, showing them how to do it and providing plenty of practice
• Makes exam preparation fun – with thought-provoking texts and motivating practice activities
• New Reading and Listening texts to bring the course right up to date
• Extended Writing reference section with model answers for all tasks
• New Visuals section providing extra practice for Paper 5

FREE TEST BOOKLET

• Each unit tests covers the language areas in the corresponding unit of the First Certificate Gold Coursebook and progress tests test the language from the previous five units
• Uses the exam format of paper 3 of the First Certificate in English exam
• Also includes reading and writing tasks from papers 1 and 2 of the exam
• Includes an eight page pull-out answer key

About this title

About the Author

Richard Acklam has been involved in EFL teaching/teacher-training since1982. He has mainly worked for International House in London, Paris and Cairo. He has an MA (TEFL) from the University of Reading. His publications include The Choice series [co-author with Sue Mohamed] (Longman), First Certificate Gold, Advanced Gold and Going for Gold (Intermediate and Upper Intermediate) [co-author with Araminta Crace] (Pearson Education).

Sally Burgess is co-author (with Richard Acklam) of First Certificate Gold (1996; 2000) and Advanced Gold (forthcoming). Sally teaches English and an introductory sociolinguistics course in the English Department at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. She holds an MA (TEFL) and a Ph.D from the University of Reading, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582429692
• ISBN 13: 9780582429697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208