Encounters Book 2

ISBN Standard Edition 4-523-17380-X English Edition 4-523-17466-0 Teacher's Edition 4-523-17467-9	Conversation coursebook for lower to upper intermediate students. Conversations are broadly focused on Japan-based casual situations. Meeting old friends, inviting, giving directions (in a Japanese city context), and exchanging and supporting opinions. ３つのユニットに分けて、国内の外国人との出会いで使える設定が提供されています。久しぶりに会ったふさわしい会話とその文法（現在完了など）、外国人の友達を招待したり、道案内（日本での道案内は外国での道案内と多少違います）、最後のユニットでは、いろいろな意見の言い方で、この教科書は英会話の中級レベルのコツを丁寧に教えます。英語版も日本語版もあります（日本語版では、会話のコツの説明などは、日本で書いています） Michael Critchley Maria Shiguemi Ichiyama Teacher's Manuals One click download (Teacher's manual and assessment materials) Macintosh Users (1.6MB stuffit) PC / Windows Users (1.6MB ZIP)

Unit 1: How Have You Been?

Students study how to "catch up" with an old friend or acquaintance, developing topics about recent events or about shared personal information. Students also review giving leaving excuses (covered in Book 1) and exchanging contact information. Grammatically, this unit can be extremely challenging, as it covers the present perfect and perfect continuous tenses in some detail.

Unit 2: Where Should We Meet?

This unit focuses on situations where students will call a friend or acquaintance to invite them out. When planning details, students study and practice modal auxiliaries as they exchange suggestions. Students also learn how to give directions from a Japanese perspective, with an emphasis on describing easy-to-recognize landmarks with imperative forms and complex noun groups.

Unit 3: What's It Like?

Unit 3 focuses on how to give opinions, and on the future tense, comparison forms and intensifiers necessary to realize them. Unlike other units in the Encounters series, this unit is broken down into three smaller conversation types: suggestions, opinions about experiences, and reaching agreement, each with its own model conversation. In all cases, students are exposed to the standard opinion structure of:

opinion ==> supporting points ==> concluding remarks

These opinions are framed within a variety of casual conversations. In particular, the functions and conversations introduced in Units 1 and 2 are used as the conversational base within which students exchange opinions. As such, Unit 3 serves as a comprehensive course review.