True Colors

An EFL Course for
Real Communication

Jay Maurer and Irene E. Schoenberg
Joan Saslow, Series Director

True Beginner -- High Intermediate

The True Colors promise:

True Colors rapidly readies students to understand real spoken and written English and systematically teaches them to express themselves in their own words.

True Colors:

Uses real English as opposed to "textbook" English to prepare students to understand native speech outside of English class.
Organizes presentation of language to ensure frequent exposure to language at a comprehensible receptive level so that students acquire language quickly and easily.
Tightly connects social language and grammar so that grammar is taught with both meaning and purpose.
Fully balances presentation, practice, and production of language.

True Colors achieves real communication through a unique combination of activities:

Improvise--systematically teaches students to take language they've acquired and recombine it to serve their own needs.

Heart to Heart--enables students to voice their own thoughts and views.

In Your Own Words--activates intensive review and communication through full-page pictures.

True Colors consists of:

Student's Books offer speaking, listening, and reading models at both productive and receptive levels, integrating social language and grammar. They liberate the teacher because of their inclusion of an abundance of practice and opportunities for free production of language.

Workbooks provide additional written reinforcement of language learned in the Student's Books.

Teacher's Editions, interleaved, full-color, and spiral-bound, contain extensive suggestions, truly meaningful language and culture notes, tapescripts, answers, and suggestions for oral testing.

Audiocassettes or Audio CDs provide extensive listening practice, task listenings, and opportunities for student repetition and comparison with native speaker models.

Teacher's Bonus Packs include a full complement of photocopiable activities to reinforce and further expand the material in the Student's Books.

Achievement Tests contain written tests for all units as well as mid-term and final tests.

Placement Tests facilitate accurate student placement within the True Colors series. Includes written, listening, and speaking scores.

Videocassettes--The companion videos, True Voices, provide exciting and entertaining vehicles to increase understanding of real native speech.

Video Workbooks enhance and extend the video program.