Longman

Longman

Longman was a publishing company founded in London, England in 1724. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education.-Beginnings:The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman , the son of Ezekiel Longman , a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and...

 New Concept English by L. G. Alexander

Louis George Alexander

Louis George Alexander was a teacher and writer, the author of New Concept English and the Direct English Syllabus and Course Structure.-Biography:...

 is a popular English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 textbook. The course was first published on October 30, 1967. A later (1993) revised edition is also available.

The course consists of four components:

• The Students' Book
• The Teacher's Book
• A set of cassette
  Compact Cassette
  The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
  
  s, on which the multi-purpose texts have been recorded.
• Another set of cassettes, on which Repetition drill in the Teacher's Book has been recorded.

Book 3: Developing Skills

At this level,there is less need for pattern control and contextualization.
Now that the foundations have been laid,the student is in a position to cope with new sentence patterns as and when they occur.
This book includes 60 lessons.

Book 4: Fluency in English

The materials were chosen from a variety of publications. Nine of the lessons were selected from The Listener. This volume book 48 lessons.