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ABAX Catalog | By Skill:

Listening and Speaking | Reading | Vocabulary Development | Early Language Development

Listening and Speaking

Communication Spotlight: High Beginner
Communication Spotlight focuses on the strategies and skills of speaking: conversation management, involvement strategies, compensation strategies, confirmation stragegies and more.
Top-Up Listening 1

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

A 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Communication Spotlight: Pre-Intermediate
Communication Spotlight focuses on the strategies and skills of speaking: conversation management, involvement strategies, compensation strategies, confirmation stragegies and more.
Top-Up Listening 2

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

The second in a 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Top-Up Listening 3

"...actually teaches students how to listen" - Bronia Holmes, in English Teaching Professional (Book Reviews, Issue 30, January 2004)

The third in a 3-part series for high school through college students and beyond. Not just practice. An explicit focus on listening skills, all within a communicative framework.

Business Listening & Speaking

For internationally-minded businesspersons

"A no-nonsense business skills book . . . definitely worth considering" – EL Gazette


Business English: Meetings

The language of meetings from start to finish.

A software training program jammed packed with useful study on the language and culture of North American business meetings. Used by top-ranked companies around the world!

North American Idioms

Full Multimedia Language Training

Jam packed with video, interactive games, listening games and other activities. This program instructs students in language: meaning, use, appropriacy and culture. Used by schools and colleges throughout North America and Asia.

Photocopiable Pairworks for Children

"Enjoyable,… adaptable,… cleverly designed" - IATEFL Issues

Simple info-gap pairwork activities that get your children talking right away.

Reading

Practical Readings 1

Focusing on how text "fits" together

Intensive reading for students from high school through college age. Looks at reading skills and discoursal grammar features, (an area of grammar often neglected).

Come Fly With Us

A survey of the airline industry.

No industry has been more affected by the events of the last few years than that of airlines. A look at the industry today and how it is likely to change in the future. A general look at the industry plus many small side stories.

Vocabulary Development

The ABAX Workbook for New Words and Expressions

A vocabulary notebook and much more.

An ABAX original! Put the focus back on vocabulary and back on learner autonomy. Formalizing the role of that dog-eared classroom notebook. If you are interested in vocabulary, you really should have a flip through this.

North American Idioms

Full Multimedia Language Training

Jam packed with video, interactive games, listening games and other activities. This program instructs students in language: meaning, use, appropriacy and culture. Used by schools and colleges throughout North America and Asia.

Business English: Meetings

The language of meetings from start to finish.

A software training program jammed packed with useful study on the language and culture of North American business meetings. Used by top-ranked companies around the world!

Photocopiable Pairworks for Children

"Enjoyable,… adaptable,… cleverly designed" - IATEFL Issues

Simple info-gap pairwork activities that get your children talking right away.

Early Language Development

What's in the Cards?

"Verges on genius" - The Language Teacher

"Four stars!" - The Language Teacher

Letter Recognition, the Alphabet, Phonics, Spelling and more!

 


What's in the Cards? (Japanese version)
Japanese version

ABAX Miniature Letter Cards

A must for any children's classroom! Really!

These cards can be used in so many ways we can't even begin to start listing them. Every classroom teaching children should have two or three sets of these lying around. Just ask all the many teachers using them!!

Photocopiable Pairworks for Children

"Enjoyable,… adaptable,… cleverly designed" - IATEFL Issues

Simple info-gap pairwork activities that get your children talking right away.

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