Military English Tactical and Peacekeeping Operations: Student's Workbook - Paperback

by Robert Andrew Buckmaster (Author)

Military English: English for Tactical and Peacekeeping Operations is a pre-deployment course for Army personnel who are to be sent on multinational peace support operations or on training courses in an English language speaking country, or are to be trained by English-speaking instructors. There are four components to the course: 1: A Coursebook with 200 lesson-units, providing over 200 hours of study materials including vocabulary learning tasks, reading and listening tasks, briefings, role plays and other speaking tasks. 2: A Workbook. 3: A Teacher's Book with full instructions on teaching the course, and coursebook and workbook task key. 4: Downloadable colour pictures, maps, PowerPoint Presentations and audio files, and audio transcripts for use on phones, tablets or computers. These can be freely downloaded and shared with all students. Course Overview: There are three Phases to the Course. Phase One of the course is a series of intertwined threads of General English units, General Military English units and some Specialised Military English units. Phase Two is blocks of units of Specialised Military English, and General English with a Military Application. Phase Three revises and activates the Specialised Military English of Phase One and Two and adds Peacekeeping English. The course has an open and clear methodology, built in revision tasks and essential practice in the five core area for tactical and peacekeeping operations: understanding briefings and orders, convoy and checkpoint operations, and patrolling. Each Phase has built in tests, and the whole course builds up your students' confidence in using Military English and develops their listening and speaking skills so they can operate effectively in training situations and on missions.

Military English for Tactical and Peacekeeping Operations Workbook

Introduction; Study Guide; Self-Assessment; Functional Grammar Study Pages; Acronyms and Abbreviations Study Pages; Peacekeeping Fact File Reading Tasks; Report Writing Tasks; Fact Files; Consolidation Tasks Phase 1; Consolidation Tasks Phase 2; Blank Forms; Patrol Orders; Revision: I SPELL Challenge; Reference: Table of Ranks; Reference: Acronyms and Abbreviations List; Reference: Radio PROWORDS; Reference: Language for Briefings and Talk and Report; Reference: Grammar; Reference: Quick Functional Grammar; Reference: Topic Vocabulary; Reference: Mini-Dictionary; Reference: Key Tactical Verbs

See also:
Military English Tactical and Peacekeeping Operations Teacher's Book
Military English Army Key Words
Teaching Uniformed Personnel: A Handbook for English Teachers