Campaign 1: English for the military - Softcover

Simon Mellor-Clarke; Yvonne Baker De Altamirano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405009802 ISBN 13: 9781405009805

Publisher: Macmillan Education, 2004

Synopsis

Campaign 1 Is The First Book Of The New Three Level Series Aimed At Military Personnel. Level 1 Is For False Beginner Learners Of English And Takes Them To Level Between 1 And 2 Fo Stanag 6001, Roughly Equivalent To The Council Of Europe's Waystage Level. Campaign Deals With Real Issues That Concern Servicemen And Women, Level 1 Is Aimed At Junior Ranks Including Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Junior Ncos And Young Officers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Key features

The structure of the syllabus has been designed for use on both intensive and year-long courses
Employs a skills-based approach to learning grammar and lexis which is immediately transferable to military exercises
Topics are drawn from a variety of international military contexts including the US, the UK, NATO and the UN
Features World English boxes which highlight the differences and demonstrate the variations in vocabulary and lexis between English-speaking countries.

Student’s Book

Provides approximately 120 hours of material
Each section opens with a list of skills to establish the main objectives
Regularly and systematically recycles target language, culminating in a task-based activity which integrates the language and key skills of the whole unit to give practical preparation for military situations.

About the Author:

Simon Mellor-Clark is the director of Mission English, a Spain-based company specialised in language training and testing for the military. Simon has worked extensively in ESP teaching, testing and materials design and is a NATO STANAG 6001 examiner for the Spanish Defence Language School and for Spain's Guardia Civil. He started in the field of business English and went on to become Director of Studies of an International House executive school. He later specialised in ESP for the military by studying for an MSc in Teaching English for Specific purposes oriented towards military English. Yvonne Baker de Altamirano left university with a degree in Modern Languages. She has since spent the majority of her working life free-lance translating and English Language Teaching in Spain, collaborating in particular with the Spanish military. She has a number of qualifications in both fields, including an M.Ed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405009802
• ISBN 13: 9781405009805
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160