Language Leader Intermediate - ESL book review

If you really want to learn English, but are sick of boring books, then Language Leader Intermediate is what you want. - This ESL book review will tell you why Language Leader is what you should buy! You can use this book without a teacher, but it will be more fun if you learn with a friend.

The Language Leader intermediate coursebook has twelve units. Each unit is divided into five lessons. That makes a total of 60 lessons! Think how much you will save by not paying a teacher who wants to do boring things.

The Language Leader book looks fantastic with loads of color pictures and interesting topics.

These books are really good for ESL students who want to study at university because the lessons are about university topics such as engineering, advertising, design and language you need at work.

Read more to find out what's in each topic in Language Leader, and what you will learn.

Unit 6 of Language Leader Intermediate is about business, and has vocabulary such as community, competitors, customer, law, loss prices, profit staff, taxes and wages. So that gives you an idea that you will be learning about business terms and roles as well as business word combinations.

The study skills focus on recognizing formal and informal language in a business setting which is really important for ESL business people to understand.

The grammar focuses past continuous and past perfect.

But really important for business as well as your whole life, the writing part of this is about how to write business e-mails.

Every unit in Language Leader Intermediate has a scenario section. This one is about a business that wants to import sunglasses, and through listening, thinking and speaking you will have to solve a business problem.

In the lessons on travel you will learn about travel expressions, and this is great preparation for ESL students who will study travel or tourism at college or university because you will learn to take study notes while you listen.

There are lots of real travel articles to read about some really great places like underwater tourism, space travel, and travel to Prague and Krakow.

The scenario in this section of Language Leader Intermediate is to plan a study trip, so this will help ESL students who are planning to travel away from home to study.

The Engineering lessons have lots of information about what Engineers do and activities that use speaking and listening in a way that is great college or university preparation.

Did you know that Engineers can track asteroids that are on a collision course with the earth?

The grammar you learn here are the use of passive and how to use articles properly. For writing, you will learn how to describe a process which is really important for Engineers and other professions as well.

I've told you about Language Leader Intermediate but you can also get

• Language Leader Elementary
• Language Leader Pre-Intermediate
• Language Leader Intermediate
• Language Leader Upper Intermediate

So if the intermediate book looks too easy or too hard, you can choose a level that is better for you.

There are also workbooks that will give you lots of extra practice. The workbooks come with their own CD-ROM and you can get it with an answer key if you want. The workbooks have the same topics as the coursebook, so you can test yourself on what you learned.

The Language Leader books are fantastic.

Great pictures and topics that will really help you improve your English with or without a teacher!

So if you really want to learn English, save money on lessons, grab a friend to do the speaking with, and start learning English now.

Language Leader Intermediate Coursebook and CD-ROM, Class Audio CD 1 and 2 by David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent

Language Leader Intermediate Workbook with/out Key and Audio CD by John Hughes

Language Leader Intermediate Teacher’s book and Test Master CD-ROM by David Albery

Published by Pearson Longman 2008