Gateway: Salient features

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Salient features:

• Provides ample opportunity to develop correct pronunciation, stress and intonation and conversational skills
• Includes listening and speaking activities that aim at developing learner’s fluency in basic interpersonal communications and higher level academic engagements
• Contains a variety of innovative exercises including MCQs, crosswords, puzzles, vocabulary webs etc.
• Develops writing skill in learners through stages such as brain-storming, organizing ideas, preparing the first draft and final draft after self and peer editing
• Helps learners acquire skills of data collection, interviewing, analysing and presenting information systematically and effectively
• Draws on a wide range of materials, e.g., fairy tales, adventure stories, stories from Indian mythology and other cultures; stories having social themes, poems and short plays, reports, interviews, biographies, travelogues, etc.
• Follows a learner–centred approach both in content and approach
• Attempts to teach grammar through authentic and real–life situations
• Provides lucid and concise definitions of grammatical terms
• Gives practice in developing dictionary skills
• Includes Teacher’s Book that provides suggested answers for the benefit of teachers/parents to guide the learner
• Has a variety of activities/tasks for formative and summative assessment