Full Blast is an exciting and easy-to-use course in English. The main concern of the writers 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.
Goals
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.
Syllabus
Full Blast follows the modular approach, which enables students to deal with topics in depth and over a longer period of time. Moreover, the course uses an integrated approach to all four language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) in a carefully graded and well organised, user-friendly syllabus combining functions, structures, vocabulary, pronunciation and communication skills. A building-block strategy has been employed through which every lexical and grammatical item is carefully presented and systematically revised, enabling students to acquire the language naturally and use it in meaningful contexts. Communicative language teaching is viewed as a practical activity rather than a theoretical notion.