کتاب Mosaic 1 Writing

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مهارت نوشتاری (Writing) در زبان انگلیسی از اهمیت زیادی برخوردار است و همچنین یکی از چالش برانگیزترین بخش‌ها در آزمون‌های معتبر همچون آیلتس و تافل محسوب می‌شود. علت این دشواری ترکیب بخش‌های قواعد دستوری (Grammar) و واژگان (Vocabulary) در آن می‌باشد و افراد باید بتواند میزان تسلط ودانش دستوری و دایره لغاتشان را در یک مهارت به‌کار بگیرند.

کتاب Mosaic 1 نیز یکی از کتاب‌های ارزشمندی است که برای زبان‌آموزان سطوح متوسط و پیشرفته‌ای که قصد شرکت در آزمون تافل (TOEFL) و همچنین آزمون داخلی تولیمو دارند نگاشته شده و سعی کرده به همه نیازهای افرادی که در این سطوح قرار دارند پاسخ دهد. آموزش‌های صریح و روان، فهم مطالب کتاب را برای خوانندگان تسهیل ساخته و موجب شده از این کتاب هم برای مطالعه فردی (Self-Study) بتوان استفاده کرد و هم برای آموزش گروهی و تدریس در آموزشگاه. لازم به‌ذکر است این کتاب متناسب با فرهنگ کشورهای آسیایی به‌خصوص کشورهای مسلمان تالیف شده است.

این کتاب از ده درس تشکیل شده و هر درس، ساختار و نظام واحدی برای آموزش به‌پیش گرفته است. هر درس ابتدا اهداف و انتظارات آن فصل را بیان کرده تا زبان‌آموزان بهتر بتوانند نیازهایشان را در هر درس پاسخ دهند. سپس چندین تصویر آورده و از افراد خواسته نسبت به تصاویر، به پرسش‌های مطرح شده پاسخ دهند. در قسمت بعدی چندین متن آورده تا به افراد کمک کند راحت‌تر به پرسش‌ها پاسخ دهند و بدانند به چه نکاتی باید بیشتر دقت کنند. همچنین برخی از نکاتی که افراد در هنگام نوشتن باید رعایت کنند یا برخی اشتباهات ریز در هنگام نوشتن در کادری جداگانه با رنگی مجزا آورده شده است.

در قسمت بعدی شیوه‌های انتخاب بهترین واژگان و عبارات مرتبط با موضوع به‌طور کامل آموزش داده شده‌اند. در بخش سوم هر درس به راهبردهای شاخ ‌و برگ دادن و گسترش دادن جملات پرداخته شده تا افراد یاد بگیرند چگونه در هنگام نوشتن از قوه تخیل بهره بگیرند. بخش پایانی هر درس نیز معیارهایی برای سنجش میزان فهم افراد ارائه کرده تا افراد راحت‌تر بتوانند خودشان را ارزیابی کنند.

بخشی از کتاب Mosaic 1 Writing

1 Preparing to Write
Getting Started
1 Talking about Characteristics of a Great Leader What makes a person a great leader? Do they have special skills or talent? Talk with a classmate and list three characteristics of a great leader.
2 Recording Information about Some Successful Leaders Look at the photo of Mahatma Gandhi on page 121 and the photon these pages, According to Howard Gardner, a scholar on intelligence, these people have been successful leaders.
What do you know them? With a classmate, complete the chart below.
Brainstorming About Great Leaders List at least five people you consider to be great leaders. When did they live? Where are they from? What have they done? What did they change? Why are they leaders? Share your list with your classmates.
Leaders Read the articles.
Reading l: Great Leaders in the World by Howard Gardner
For a book called Leading Minds, I studied 21 leaders. Some leaders began as scholars (Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer). Some led large organizations (Alfred P. Sloan). Others were leaders of nations (Margaret Thatcher), and still others led beyond national boundaries (Mahatma Gandhi and Jean Monnet). This study showed certain characteristics of effective leaders. Successful leaders must be able to speak well in public, to understand other people well, to have the experience of travelling early in life, and of challenging others in authority in a respectful way my study showed that successful leadership is a relationship between leaders and followers. A leader creates a story or a message that significantly affects the thoughts, behaviors, and feelings of a large group of people. A leader's story must be powerful. The most powerful stories are about identity, they help individuals discover who they are, where they are coming from, or where they are going a leader must also "embody" his or her story: the leader's own actions and way of life serve as an example of the message. Margaret Thatcher's message was an important part of her successful leadership. Her story gave English people a clear direction. It advised people to be thrifty and efficient and concentrate their energy to rebuild their country to a position of international prominence. If people followed Thatcher's vision, a new, stronger, and more vibrant nation could emerge. Margaret Thatcher was able to convince millions of Britons that she embodied the story she told. They believed that she used her wit and energy to accomplish things in her own life and that she contributed personally to the reinvigoration of Britain through her courage during the Falklands War and after a terrorist bombing at the Conservative Party congress in Brighton. The successful leader begins with a simple story but does not end there what makes Mahatma Gandhi and Jean Monnet great (and different from other leaders) is that, over time, they were able to convince their followers of a more sophisticated story. Gandhi convinced Indians and citizens of other nations that conflict did not have to be violent. Jean Monnet convinced French people as well as citizens and leaders of other nations that Europe did not have to remain a collection of hostile countries. His message was that there could be power, profit, and peace in dissolving or changing the boundaries. Gandhi and Monnet met many obstacles, but, as Monnet once said, they considered every defeat an opportunity. They had the same vision for 60 years and were flexible in their methods of leadership. They changed the thinking of millions of individuals.

کتاب  Mosaic 1 Writing اثر Laurie Blass, Meredith Pike Baky توسط انتشارات Mc Graw Hill به چاپ رسیده است.

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• نویسنده: Laurie Blass, Meredith Pike Baky
• انتشارات: Mc Graw Hill