Full Blast

Full Blast! is a six-level course with exciting, contemporary topics and unique features. It takes learners from A1.1 to B2 level, while demonstrating how English is used in real-life situations and enabling students to communicate fluently, accurately and confidently.

Full Blast is an exciting and easy-to-use course in English. The main concern of the writer of this course has been to explicitly demonstrate how English is used in real-life situations, thus enabling learners to use it in meaningful contexts. Full Blast has been meticulously designed to build learners' ability to communicate their ideas fluently, accurately and confidently.

Full Blast follows the requirements of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF). It aims at achieving the following goals:

  Communicative - to help students establish relations exchange information and express ideas, attitudes and feelings.

  Socio-cultural - to help students grasp an understanding of everyday life patterns of their age group. This covers topics such as home, leisure, etc. in the target language.

  Learning how to learn - to help students plan their work over a time span and set themselves realistic objectives.

  Language and cultural awareness - to help students acquire an understanding of the language and culture.

Certain key features of the book add to the challengin and motivating material of the course:

• Motivating and contemporary topics related to the interests of teenagers.

• Lively dialogues presenting real spoken English.

• Emphasis on vocabulary building.

• Cross-curricular and cultural information.

• The language used. It is principally British English. However, the writer has taken into consideration the fact that English is spoken as a first, second or foreign language throughout the world. Therefore, students are exposed to linguistic varieties as well as texts and information about various English-speaking countries and cultures.

• Personalisation activities.

• Opportunities for promoting learner autonomy with learning tips, self-assessment (Now I can) sections, learning objectives on the cover pages and through the use of the Portfolio, etc.

• Opportunities for promoting critical thinking skills by relating new information to prior knowledge with warm-up activities, asking open-ended questions and providing students with problem-solving activities.

• The use of IT (Information Technology) (eg. web links, Student's CD-ROM)