Publisher's Synopsis
As much as this book is a gift to the user foreign learner, it is also a present to the teachers and developers and writers of grammar books for foreign learners. The reason why I say this is because I am making available to the English Language Syllabus Writer the objectives he or she has to include in each of the English Language levels from beginners to advanced as shown in the sections and parts of this book. This is a book in the 'Renata' series (made up from the 1st letter of the review process as underlined, where the student will Review, Enhance (your knowledge), Nurture (knowledge thirst), Activate (knowledge ptentials), Test (your knowledge) & Adjust (where necessary) him/herself to get the most benefit of the exercises. The student may, with or without the help of a facilitator choose the basic review level and proceed to the advanced or skip where he/she thinks an exercise or a level is easy for him or her. He or she may then proceed to the next level or go back to a lower level to ensure that he or she is mastering and consolidating his or her level. The Workbook is a valuable document based on language level analysis of each level of language learning and derived from teaching and experimenting on hundreds and hundreds of students of all levels and all nationalities that I have taught throughout my long teaching career and program development and consulting experience. It is, surely, unique in the sense that the objectives taught at each level of language learning are listed at the beginning of the level exercises in the Workbook. Both, the teachers and the students will benefit from the Workbook as teachers may learn what is taught at each level and students may check if they can use those objectives correctly. The workbook calls for Review, Enhancement, Nurturing, Activation, Testing and, finally, Adjustment where necessary. That is where I call this book the Renata (Rebirth) of Review books as the first letter of each principle indicates. It, really, represents a 'Rebirth' of good research in the objectives taught at each level for Foreign Learners and applying these in the exercises appropriate for each level. The Workbook is dedicated to all who may use it to benefit and learn from it now and in in the future, as well as to all the young boys and girls and adults of all nationalities that I have taught in my long educational career which has certainly helped me enrich my understanding of what they needed and their difficulties of acquiring and functionally using the English Language. This is not a Grammar book that teaches and explains what Grammar is or what has been learnt, but a comprehensive Review Manual that only serves as a consolidation and correction tool of the whole of the English Grammar and language building blocks learnt to help foreign language learners prepare and pursue college education or apply for a job in today's competitive job market. I have not specifically targeted any geographical area by this workbook although it may well serve students from the Arabia who are planning to undergo academic or industrial training for oil and chemical industries, where I have had the honor to work for a good number of years. It also targets the high school and pre-college applicants, where I spent years of my life teaching and offering consultancy work in program development and I know exactly what those young men and women need in order to establish themselves as successful candidates for academic, industrial trades for the jobs and for the business market, in general.Good luck
