p20Subject pronouns p20 Prepositions of place in, on, near/next to p212.4Speaking and writing p22 Speaking the time p22Writing a blog p232.5 Video Witney Antiques p24 Review p253 People
Sue Merifield with Zoltán Rézmu˝ves Series Adviser Catherine Walter Photocopiable Materials Adviser Jill Hadfield Navigate Teacher’s Guide with Teacher’s Support and Resource Disc and Photocopiable Materials Beginner ➔ A1 Nav A1 prelims.indb 10/12/2015 15:40 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6dp, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2015 The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published in 2015 2019 2018 2017 2016 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the ELT Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work Photocopying The Publisher grants permission for the photocopying of those pages marked ‘photocopiable’ according to the following conditions Individual purchasers may make copies for their own use or for use by classes that they teach School purchasers may make copies for use by staff and students, but this permission does not extend to additional schools or branches Under no circumstances may any part of this book be photocopied for resale isbn: 978 19 456506 Printed in China This book is printed on paper from certified and well-managed sources acknowledgements The publisher would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp.186 (Juan/Ashok Tholpady, Sandrine/Cultura Creative), 189 (students/YAY Media AS, couple/Ian Allenden); Getty pp.184 (Plume Creative); Shutterstock pp.186 (Mandeep/KreativKolors, Rosa/ wavebreakmedia), 218 (map/Wiku) Illustrations by: Dylan Gibson pp.196, 197, 198, 202, 212, 219; Kerry Hyndman p.185; Joanna Kerr pp.183, 200, 218 (weather icons); Andy Parker pp.211, 213; Gavin Reece pp.199, 201, 203, 214 Vox pops worksheets written by: Sue Merifield Thanks also to the following people for providing essays on the pedagogy of Navigate: John Field, Anthony Green and Imelda Maguire-Karayel Although every effort has been made to trace and contact copyright holders before publication, this has not been possible in some cases We apologise for any apparent infringement of copyright and, if notified, the publisher will be pleased to rectify any errors or omissions at the earliest possible opportunity © Copyright Oxford University Press 00b NAV A1 TG imprint.indd 26/01/2016 10:14 Contents Coursebook contents Introduction to Navigate 8 Navigate overview 10 Coursebook 10 Workbook 15 Teacher’s guide; Teacher’s Support and Resource Disc 16 e-Books 17 iTools 18 Online practice 19 The Navigate Approach 20 Reading 20 Listening 22 Grammar 24 Vocabulary 26 Photocopiables 28 The CEFR 30 Testing 32 Teaching notes Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit 10 34 34 48 62 76 90 104 118 132 146 160 Photocopiable teacher’s resource materials 174 Grammar 175 Vocabulary 190 Communication 205 Vox pops video worksheets 220 On the Teacher’s Support and Resource Disc Lesson overview videos with Catherine Walter Photocopiable activities Vox pops video worksheets Tests Wordlists Audio and video scripts © Copyright Oxford University Press Nav A1 prelims.indb 3 10/12/2015 15:40 Coursebook contents: Units 1–5 Contents Oxford 3000™ Navigate has been based on the Oxford 3000 to ensure that learners are only covering the most relevant vocabulary First meetings page Introduce yourself Ask questions with be Say countries and numbers 1–10 Talk about where you’re from Say the alphabet Use question words Say hello and goodbye Fill in a form Questions 1.1 On business or holiday? p6 Verb be (I/you) p7 1.2 Where are you from? p8 Verb be (we/you) p8 1.3 How you spell that? p10 Question words p11 1.4 Speaking and writing p12 1.5 page 16 Use singular and plural forms Say numbers 11–100 Talk about jobs Use the verb be (he/she/it/they) Use subject pronouns Use prepositions of place Tell the time Write a blog this/that/these/those p16 Verb be (it/they) p16 2.2 What’s your job p18 Verb be (he/she/it/they) p18 2.3 Where are they? p20 Subject pronouns p20 page 26 page 36 Use present simple positive with common verbs Talk about your life Use the present simple negative Talk about journeys Ask present simple yes/no questions Talk about your day Ask for things in a shop Write an informal email page 46 Review p25 have got, has got p27 3.2 Possessions p28 have got negatives and questions p28 3.3 Family p30 Possessive determiners (my, his, our, …) p30 Possessive ‘s p30 3.4 Speaking and writing p32 Video A gadget-free life p34 Review p35 4.1 About me p36 Present simple positive p36 4.2 Journeys p38 Present simple negative p39 4.3 My day p40 Present simple yes/no questions p41 4.4 Speaking and writing p42 4.5 Use adverbs of frequency Talk about clothes Ask Wh- questions Talk about a building you like Use the present simple Talk about body parts Talk about style and fashion Ask for and give travel information Make arrangements by text Video Witney Antiques p24 3.1 My neighbours p26 3.5 Style and design Review p15 2.4 Speaking and writing p22 Use adjective + noun phrases Talk about possessions with have got Ask and answer about possessions using have got Use opposite adjectives Use possessive determiners and possessive ‘s Talk about family Use everyday expressions Write a social media message My life Video At the hotel p14 2.1 What’s this in English? p16 2.5 People and possessions GRAMMAR Video A day in the life of a journalist p44 Review p45 5.1 Clothes style p46 Adverbs of frequency p46 5.2 Amazing architecture p48 Wh- questions p48 5.3 Styles around the world p50 Present simple – all forms p50 5.4 Speaking and writing p52 5.5 Video Architecture in Amsterdam p54 Review p55 Nav A1 prelims.indb © Copyright Oxford University Press 10/12/2015 15:40 VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING Listening recognizing questions p7 Introductions p6 Numbers 1–10 p8 Countries p8 SPEAKING/WRITING Reading recognizing proper nouns p9 Saying names of countries p8 The alphabet p10 Speaking hello and goodbye p12 Writing filling in a form p13 Objects p16 Regular plural nouns p16 Numbers 11–100 p17 word stress: -teen and -ty p17 Listening understanding singular and plural p17 Jobs p18 word stress: jobs p18 Reading understanding pronouns (1) p19 Video Vox pops & p19 Prepositions of place in, on, near/next to p21 Speaking the time p22 Writing a blog p23 Reading identifying key words p27 Adjective + noun phrases (1) p26 Irregular plurals p26 Opposite adjectives p29 stress in yes/no questions and answers p29 Listening understanding final ‘s p31 Family p30 Video Vox pops p31 Speaking using everyday expressions p32 Writing a social media message p33 Common verbs p37 present simple with he/she/it p37 Listening understanding positive and negative contractions p39 Transport p38 Daily activities p40 Verb + noun phrases p41 Reading understanding verb phrases p37 stress in present simple yes/no questions and answers p41 Video Vox pops p41 Speaking in a shop p42 Writing an informal email p43 Colours and clothes p47 word stress: clothes p47 Reading and, but, because p47 Listening understanding chunks p49 Adjectives p48 Video Vox pops p49 Parts of the body p51 Very/really + adjective p51 plural forms p51 Speaking asking for and giving travel information p52 Writing making arrangements by text p53 © Copyright Oxford University Press Nav A1 prelims.indb 5 10/12/2015 15:40 Coursebook contents: Units 6–10 GRAMMAR Places and facilities page 56 Use there is/there are Talk about places in a town Talk about hotel facilities Ask questions with Is there …? / Are there …? Use each and all the Describe rooms and furniture Explain problems Write a hotel review 6.1 Two towns p56 there is/there are p57 6.2 Is there Wi-fi? p58 Is there …?/Are there …? p58 6.3 Has each flat got a kitchen? p60 each and all the p61 6.4 Speaking and writing p62 6.5 Skills and interests page 66 Use can and can’t Talk about your abilities Use can to ask and answer about abilities Use adverbs of manner Use like + -ing Talk about your hobbies Make simple requests Write a post on a social media website can/can’t p66 7.2 Can you help? p68 Can you …? p68 7.3 I like going out p70 like + -ing p70 7.4 Speaking and writing p72 page 76 Use the verb be in the past Talk about your life then and now Use past simple regular verbs to talk about the past Describe a past life Use object pronouns Tell a story about a photo Use expressions for special occasions Show interest Write a biography page 86 Use past simple irregular verbs Talk about a memory Use past simple negatives and questions Use common verb phrases Use ago to say when something happened Talk about the last time Talk about the weather Write a review of an event Use going to for future plans Talk about a future project Ask and answer questions using going to Talk about a life change Use would like + noun/verb Talk about a café Order food and drink Write invitations and thank-you notes page 96 Review p75 Verb be past simple p76 8.2 Lives from the past p78 Past simple regular verbs p78 8.3 Special moments p80 Object pronouns p80 8.4 Speaking and writing p82 Video The Wright siblings p84 Review p85 9.1 Happy memories p86 Past simple irregular verbs p86 9.2 A good excuse p88 Past simple negatives and questions p88 9.3 News stories p90 ago p90 9.4 Speaking and writing p92 9.5 10 New places, new projects Video An unusual hobby p74 8.1 When we were seven p76 8.5 Unusual stories Review p65 7.1 She can paint p66 7.5 Our past Video House searching p64 Video Whatever the weather p94 Review p95 10.1 We’re going to raise £5,000 p96 going to positive and negative p96 10.2 A new life p98 going to questions and short answers p98 10.3 Café cities p100 would like p101 10.4 Speaking and writing p102 10.5 Video A New York café p104 Communication page 106 Review p105 Grammar Reference page 116 Nav A1 prelims.indb © Copyright Oxford University Press 10/12/2015 15:40 VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LISTENING/READING Hotel facilities p58 Is there …?/Are there …? p59 Listening understanding where and when p59 Rooms and furniture p60 linking (1) p61 Reading words that look similar p61 SPEAKING/WRITING Places in a town p56 Recording vocabulary p57 Video Vox pops p61 Speaking explaining problems p62 Writing a hotel review p63 Skills p66 Abilities p67 Sentence stress: can, can’t p67 Listening the schwa sound /ə/ p67 Adverbs of manner p69 can, can’t in questions and statements p68 Reading scanning for specific information p69 Hobbies p70 like/love/hate + -ing p71 linking vowels with /w/ or /j/ p71 Video Vox pops p71 Speaking simple requests p72 Writing a post on a social media website p73 Dates p77 was and were p77 was born/died p78 regular past simple endings p79 Listening past or present p79 Past time expressions p81 linking (2) p81 Reading understanding pronouns (2) p81 Video Vox pops p79 Speaking expressions for special occasions p82 Writing a biography p83 Adjective + noun phrases (2) p87 Verb phrases (1) p89 Sentence stress p88 Listening words that sound the same p89 Words from context p90 word stress in two-syllable words p90 Reading guessing meaning from context p91 Video Vox pops p91 Speaking the weather p92 Writing a review of an event p93 Future time expressions p97 going to p97 Reading identifying the subject p97 silent letters p101 Listening identifying words in connected speech p101 Verb phrases (2) p98 Prepositions of time p99 Café food p100 Video Vox pops 10 p101 Speaking ordering food and drink p102 Writing invitations and thank-you notes p103 Audioscripts page 136 Irregular verbs page 146 Phonemic symbols page 147 © Copyright Oxford University Press Nav A1 prelims.indb 7 10/12/2015 15:40 Introduction to Navigate Navigate is an English language course for adults that incorporates current knowledge about language learning with concern for teachers’ views about what makes a good course Many English language courses today are based on market research, and that is appropriate Teachers know what works in their classrooms, out of the many kinds of materials and activities they have available However, relying only on market research discourages innovation: it ignores the wealth of knowledge about language learning and teaching that has been generated Navigate has been developed in a cycle which begins by calling on both market research and the results of solid experimental evidence; and then by turning back to classrooms once more for piloting and evaluation of the resulting materials A course for adults This is a course for adults, whether they want to use English for study, professional or social purposes Information-rich texts and recordings cover a range of topics that are of interest and value for adults in today’s world Learners are encouraged to use their own knowledge and experience in communicative tasks They are seen as motivated people who may have very busy lives and who want to use their time efficiently Importantly, the activities in the course are based on how adults best learn foreign languages Grammar: accuracy and fluency Adults learn grammar best when they combine a solid conscious understanding of rules with communicative practice using those rules (Norris & Ortega, 2000; Spada & Lightbown, 2008; Spada & Tomita, 2010) Navigate engages learners in thinking about grammar rules, and offers them a range of communicative activities It does not skimp on information about grammar, or depend only on communicative practice for grammar learning Texts and recordings are chosen to exemplify grammar features Learners are invited, when appropriate, to consider samples from a text or recording in order to complete grammar rules themselves Alternatively, they are sometimes asked to find examples in a text that demonstrate a rule, or to classify sentences that fall into different rule categories These kinds of activities mean that learners engage cognitively with the rules This means that they will be more likely to notice instances of the rules when they encounter them (Klapper & Rees, 2003), and to incorporate the rules into their own usage on a long-term basis (Spada & Tomita, 2010) Navigate also offers learners opportunities to develop fluency in using the grammar features Aspects of a grammar feature that may keep learners from using it easily are isolated and practised Then tasks are provided that push learners to use the target grammar features in communicative situations where the focus is on meaning For more on Navigate’s approach to grammar, see pages 24–25 of this book Nav A1 prelims.indb Vocabulary: more than just knowing words Why learn vocabulary? The intuitive answer is that it allows you to say (and write) what you want However, the picture is more complex than this Knowing the most important and useful vocabulary is also a key element in reading and listening; topic knowledge cannot compensate for vocabulary knowledge (Jensen & Hansen, 1995; Hu & Nation, 2000), and guessing from context usually results in guessing wrongly (Bensoussan & Laufer, 1984) Focusing on learning vocabulary generates a virtuous circle in terms of fluency: knowing the most important words and phrases means that reading and listening are more rewarding, and more reading and listening improves the ability to recall vocabulary quickly and easily Navigate’s vocabulary syllabus is based on the Oxford 3000 This is a list of frequent and useful vocabulary items, compiled both on the basis of information in the British National Corpus and the Oxford Corpus Collection, and on consultation with a panel of over seventy language learning experts That is to say, an initial selection based on corpus information about frequency has been refined using considerations of usefulness and coverage To build Navigate’s vocabulary syllabus, the Oxford 3000 has then been referenced to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR; Council of Europe, 2001), so that each level of the course focuses on level-appropriate vocabulary For more information on the Oxford 3000, see pages 26–27 of this book Adult learners typically take responsibility for their learning, and vocabulary learning is an area where out-of-class work is important if learners want to make substantial progress Navigate focuses on giving learners tools to maximize the efficiency of their personal work on vocabulary One way it does this is to teach not only individual vocabulary items, but also a range of vocabulary systems, for example how common prefixes and suffixes are used Another is to suggest strategies for vocabulary learning In this way, learners are helped to grow their vocabulary and use it with greater ease Speaking: putting it all together Based on a synthesis of research about how adults learn, (Nation & Newton, 2009) demonstrate that different kinds of activities are important in teaching speaking Languagefocused learning focuses explicitly and in detail on aspects of speaking such as comprehensible pronunciation, appropriately polite language for a given situation or tactics for holding the floor in a conversation Fluency development gives learners focused practice in speaking more quickly and easily Meaning-focused output provides opportunities to speak in order to communicate meaning, without explicitly focusing on using correct language Navigate covers all three kinds of activities The course systematically teaches aspects of pronunciation and intonation that contribute to effective communication; appropriate expressions for a range of formal and informal situations; and ways of holding one’s own in a conversation © Copyright Oxford University Press 10/12/2015 15:40 It offers activities to help learners speak more fluently Very importantly, it offers a wealth of meaning-focused activities Very often, these activities are tasks: they require learners to something together to achieve something meaningful These tasks meet Ur’s (1981) criteria for a task that works: straightforward input, a requirement for interaction, an outcome that is challenging and achievable, and a design that makes it clear when learners have completed the task Learners are not just asked to discuss a topic: they are asked to something with some information that involves expressing thoughts or opinions and coming up with a recognizable outcome Reading: not just a guessing game Typical English language courses tend to test rather than teach reading; and they often concentrate on meaningfocused strategies that assume learners should be helped to puzzle out the meaning in the text on the basis of prior knowledge There is a large body of evidence that shows why this is inefficient, discussed in the essay on reading on pages 20–21 of this book Activities such as thinking about the topic of the text in advance or trying to guess unknown words have limited benefit in helping learners to understand the text at hand These activities have even less benefit in helping learners understand the next text they will read, and as Paul Nation (2009) notes, that is surely the goal of the classroom reading activity Navigate focuses on explicit teaching of things like sound-spelling relations, vocabulary that appears often in certain kinds of texts, the ways that words like pronouns and discourse markers hold texts together, and techniques for simplifying difficult sentences These will give learners ways of understanding the text they are reading, but more importantly the next text they will read Listening: a very different skill Too many books treat listening as if it were just another kind of reading, using the same sorts of activities for both Navigate takes into account that listening is linear – you can’t look back at the text of something you’re hearing – and that listening depends crucially on understanding the sounds of English and how they combine (Field, 2008) Practice on basic elements of listening will lead to faster progress, as learners acquire the tools to hear English better People who read can stop, read again, and go back in the text; but listeners can’t this with the stream of speech For listening, language-focused learning means starting with building blocks like discriminating the sounds of the language, recognizing the stress patterns of words, distinguishing word boundaries, identifying stressed and unstressed forms of common words, and holding chunks of language in mind for short periods Concentrating on knowledge and skills like these will pay off more quickly than only focusing on meaning, and will make listening for meaning much more efficient Fluency development in listening is important too: this means activities that teach learners to understand language spoken at natural speed, and give them progressive practice in getting better at it Navigate includes activities that focus systematically on each of these areas separately, as well as giving opportunities to deploy this knowledge and these skills in more global listening John Field’s essay, on pages 22–23 of this book, gives more detail on this Writing for different purposes Adults learning English for professional, academic or leisure activities will need to write different kinds of texts at different levels of formality The Navigate writing syllabus is based on a so-called genre approach, which looks at the characteristics of the different kinds of texts students may be called upon to write It implements this syllabus by way of activities that allow students to express their own meanings in drafting, discussing and redrafting texts This has been shown to be an effective means of developing writing skills for adults (Hyland, 2011) Navigate offers an innovative approach to developing reading and listening skills This, combined with a solid speaking and writing syllabus, gives learners a sound foundation in the four skills Grammar and vocabulary have equal importance throughout the course and learning is facilitated through the information-rich and engaging texts and recordings It is the complete course for the 21st-century adult learner Catherine Walter is the Series Adviser for the Navigate course She is an award-winning teacher educator, materials developer and researcher Catherine lectures in Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford, where she convenes the distance MSc in Teaching English Language in University Settings, and she is a member of the Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction References Bensoussan, M and Laufer, B (1984) Lexical guessing in context in EFL reading comprehension Journal of Research in Reading, 7(1), 15-32 Field, J (2008) Listening in the Language Classroom Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Hu, M H & Nation, P (2000) Unknown vocabulary density and reading comprehension Reading in a Foreign Language 13/1:403-430 Hyland, K (2011) Learning to write In Manchón, R M (Ed.), Learningto-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language, pp 18-35 Amsterdam: John Benjamins Klapper, J & J Rees 2003 ‘Reviewing the case for explicit grammar instruction in the university foreign language learning context’ Language Teaching Research 7/3: 285-314 Nation, I S P (2009) Teaching EFL/ESL Reading and Writing London: Routledge Nation, I S P & Newton, J (2009) Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking London: Routledge Norris, J M and L Ortega 2000 Effectiveness of L2 instruction: a research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis Language Learning 50/3:417-528 Schmitt, N (2010) Researching Vocabulary: A Vocabulary Research Manual Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Spada, N and Lightbown, P M 2008 Form-focused instruction: isolated or integrated? TESOL Quarterly 42/2, 181-207 Spada, N and Tomita, Y 2010 Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: a meta-analysis Language Learning 60/2:1-46 Ur, P (1981) Discussions that Work: Task-centred Fluency Practice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press © Copyright Oxford University Press Nav A1 prelims.indb 9 10/12/2015 15:40 Navigate content overview Coursebook lesson Unit topics Navigate is created for adult students with content that appeals to learners at this level The unit topics have been chosen with this in mind and vary from My life and Our past to New places, new projects Decoding skills Navigate contains reading texts of a wide variety of topics, text types and sources In this section, students work on decoding skills to develop their reading These decoding skills, for example understanding pronoun referencing, guessing meaning from context, recognizing words that look similar, etc drill down to the micro level of reading, and enable students to develop strategies to help them master these skills See pages 20–21 of this book for more information Goals The goals show students what they will be working on and what they will have learnt by the end of the lesson 4.1 My life PRONUNCIATION The present simple ending -(e)s is pronounced in three ways 4.1 About me GOALS present simple with he/she/it /s/ likes works /z/ goes /ɪz/ teaches watches lives plays reads studies Talk about your life 4.3 4.4 4.5 Who is different? Jakub lives in Prague, but I live in Kladno We study at Charles University READING SKILLS understanding verb phrases To understand verb phrases … a 4.2 Listen and repeat the sounds and verbs Use present simple positive with common verbs 4.2 10 Tell the class about you and other students Who is similar? b Work with a partner Say the sentences in exercise • Focus on the verbs first (e.g study, like, lives, goes) • Look at the ‘idea’ that comes after the verb: • noun (a teacher, a hotel) • a longer idea (in a small hotel in Kiev, at university in London) present simple positive Reading & Grammar Look at the photos Are they … a husband and wife? b • children go • home b e c f like live • job a Match the highlighted verbs in the text to photos a–g a d g play read study teach watch work in Kenya/in a flat at a school/English abroad/to Italy for a charity/in an office basketball/the violin comics/cars young people/English TV/films newspapers/books c Work with a partner Add one more word or phrase to T b Compare your answers with a partner Say each verb a Read the text again and complete the sentences in the Grammar focus box GRAMMAR FOCUS present simple positive To make the present simple positive, we use: I/You/We/They + verb I study at a school in the USA They the same father He/She/It + verb + (e)s He basketball She for a charity To make the he/she/it form, we … add -s to most verbs: play ➞ plays read ➞ reads add -es to verbs ending in -ch, -sh, -ss, -o: go ➞ goes delete -y and add -ies to verbs ending in consonant + -y: study ➞ studies Note: the he/she/it form of the verb have is has ➜ Grammar Reference page 122 Complete the sentences about Auma and Barack books Barack reads Auma young people Auma and Barack different mothers Barack Spider-Man comics Auma a daughter named Akinyi Barack and his family in the USA live in Kenya/in a flat/in A I live in a flat B False You live in a house a Work with a partner Use the prompts to talk about your life I live in … I work at/in/for … I study at/– … I play (+ noun) … In my free time, I watch/read (+ noun) … b Work with a different partner Tell them about your partner in exercise 9a Chelsea lives in a flat on Tackley Road She works in a school … the guitar in a hospital to the beach TV in Lisbon art In her free time, Amelia goes to the cinema We watch a lot of films Anton studies English at university Severine plays golf at the weekend Omar teaches maths in a school Bryan and Anna like music My name’s Giorgia and this is my sister Valentina We are twins, but we have very different lives I live in Milan and I’m a nurse I work in a hospital in the city Valentina studies music at the University of Palermo She teaches classes, too Valentina and I like sport and music, but I haven’t got time for sport At the weekend, Valentina plays tennis and she goes to the beach But I read books and watch TV at the weekend Zurich Write two true and two false sentences Read your sentences to your partner and say true or false a b c d e f Read the text and answer questions 1–5 each verb go c watch play live study work Underline the verb phrases in sentences 1–6 b 4.3 Listen and check your answers his is Auma Obama She lives in Nairobi in Kenya and she has a daughter named Akinyi She works for a charity – she teaches young people from poor families This is her brother, Barack They have the same father, but different mothers Barack lives in the USA with his wife and two daughters His daughters study at a school there He goes abroad a lot but when he has time, he plays basketball, reads books and watches films – his favourites are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest And he likes Spider-Man comics! Auma and her brother have different lives, but their jobs are similar They want to help people Match verbs 1–6 to nouns and phrases a–f a Complete phrases 1–9 with the verbs in the box brother and sister? 4.1 Read and listen to the text about Auma and Barack What is similar about their lives? What is different? • parents common verbs Vocabulary & Speaking Where does Giorgia live? Where does Giorgia work? What does Valentina study? What the twins like? What they at the weekend? b Compare your answers with a partner 36 Oxford 3000™ 37 Reading & Grammar Grammar focus box Vocabulary & Speaking Grammar forms the ‘backbone’ of Navigate Lesson introduces the first grammar point of the unit It is always combined with a skill, either reading or listening See page 24 of this book for more information At this level of Navigate, grammar is introduced deductively in most cases Students are asked to complete the information in the Grammar focus box based on what has been introduced in previous exercises in the Grammar & Listening or Grammar & Reading exercises The Grammar focus box is followed by a number of spoken and written exercises in which the grammar is practised further Navigate has a strong emphasis on active vocabulary learning The first lesson in most units contains a Vocabulary & Speaking, a Vocabulary & Listening or a Vocabulary & Reading section in which essential vocabulary for the unit is introduced and practised The vocabulary is taught in topic sets, allowing students to build their vocabulary range in a logical and systematic way 10 Nav A1 prelims.indb 10 © Copyright Oxford University Press 10/12/2015 15:40