Lado English Series, Book 3

by Robert Lado

The second edition of the Lado English Series is a complete course in English consisting of six carefully graded levels, with a textbook, workbook, teacher's manual, and cassettes for each level. The central objective of the series is to help students in the complex business of learning to understand, speak, read, and write English. In the new edition, careful attention has been given to the importance of learning to use these four skills for meaningful communication. The chief innovative feature of the second edition is "contextualization," that is, the placing of all new structures and vocabulary in meaningful contexts, so that the student is always sure of the meaning of the sentences being presented or practiced. New "conversations" are introduced with a background situation which places them in a natural communicative setting. The substitution drills which formerly followed the conversation section have been transformed into "adaptations," which relate structures introduced in the