Student's Handbook.pdf

The Callan ™ Method was first developed and published in 1960.

It was then published, for restricted use only, in 1963.

This edition was published, for the international market, in 2004.

First Edition 1960

Second Edition 1963

This Edition 2004

STUDENT’S HANDBOOK

ISBN 1 898605 60 2

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ORCHARD PUBLISHING LTD.

Orchard House 45 Mill Way Grantchester Cambridge CB3 9ND

in association with

CALLAN METHOD ORGANISATION LTD. and THE CALLAN SCHOOL

Berwick House 139 Oxford Street London W1D 2JA

www.callan.co.uk

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NOTE : UNTIL THE YEAR 2000, THE FIRST FOUR STAGES OF THE

METHOD WERE CONTAINED IN ONE BOOK. THEY ARE NOW

DIVIDED INTO TWO BOOKS.

ENGLISH IN A QUARTER OF THE TIME!

The Callan Method teaches English in a quarter of the normal time.

Instead of taking the usual 350 hours (four academic years) to get

the average student through the Cambridge Preliminary, it takes

only 80 hours (one academic year), and only 160 hours for the

Cambridge First Certificate.

Private schools using the Method are able to give all their students a

legally-valid written guarantee that if they fail their Cambridge,

state-school or university exams in the predicted number of hours,

they will be given free lessons until successful. For these exams

most Callan Method schools have a 95 % pass rate, compared with

the international average of about 70%.

Such schools are also able to allow their students to take trial lessons

before signing on, and to pay on results if they are sceptical of the

Method's claims.

The Method can guarantee an excellent result with virtually every

student. It involves little or no homework, and is easy, interesting

and pleasant to use.

It is suitable for students of all ages and for all purposes of study. It

requires no equipment (not even a blackboard) or other books, and

can be used for any size of class at private schools, state schools or

universities.

The Method can also be used in a "Teach Yourself" manner, and

students can learn with it by practising with each other. It can also

be used successfully by non-professional teachers without

qualifications or experience, and enables anyone to open a Callan

Method school without any knowledge of the teaching of English.

Although this book is called a Student's Handbook, it is really more

intended as a reference book for teachers, schools, universities,

governments and business organisations, as it lays out in great detail

all the information concerning the Callan Method.

It can, of course, be read by students if they wish to have a more

detailed explanation of the Method and of the arguments proving the

Method teaches English in a quarter of the normal time.

Any student not able to read English well enough, could always ask

an English-speaking friend to read the Handbook for him and

explain its contents or just its main points of interest selected from

the Index.

A shorter version of the contents of this Handbook is to be found in

the Callan Method "Information" book, and in the preface to the

Callan Method Student's Books.

The Callan ™ Method is Suitable for All Types of Students

and Teachers the World Over

The Callan Method is suitable for use by any type of teacher

anywhere in the world, preparing any type of student for any type of

English exam. It can be used by an American teacher teaching

immigrants in Los Angeles, or an Indian teacher in Calcutta teaching

Indian schoolchildren.

Up to the level of the Cambridge First Certificate, the English

language remains the same, no matter who is using it or for what

purpose. Of the basic 4,400 words which are taught to this level,

only 39 differ in American-English from English-English, and only

6 differ in spelling.

Although Standard English-English pronunciation is referred to in

the Method, it is only intended as a yardstick. A student, for

example, taught by an American teacher speaking with a Standard

American accent will have no difficulty in being understood

wherever he might go in the world, and neither would a student

taught by an Australian teacher with a Standard Australian accent. It

is only when a teacher has a strong regional accent (Yorkshire,

Somerset, Texan, Brooklyn etc.) that problems may arise.

The Cambridge Exams which are referred to throughout the Callan

Method books act solely as a yardstick for measuring the Callan

Method against other methods. Many countries have their own

exams (the Michigan University exams in America, for example)

which the students can be prepared for by studying with the Callan

Method. When they reach the level of the exam they wish to take,

they and their teacher would work through the past examination

papers for that exam instead of through the past examination papers

for the Cambridge exams. The language will be virtually the same

no matter what the nature of the exam.

References to such things as pounds, miles, yards and English place-

names throughout the Method can easily be changed by the teacher

to dollars, kilometres, metres etc. and to place-names in the students'

own country.

LIST OF CALLAN METHOD MATERIALS

The following is a list of books and tapes/cds that go to make up the

Callan Method:

1. Teacher’s Books One to Seven

2. Teacher’s Demonstration Charts

3. Teacher’s Handbook, ie Instruction Manual

4. Teacher’s Audio Training Tape

5. Teacher’s Video Training Tape

6. Student’s Books One to Seven

7. Student’s Tapes/CDs accompanying the Student’s Books

8. Student’s Vocabulary Booklet, containing the translation

in the student’s own language of all the words used in the

seven books of the Callan Method

9. Dictation Booklets, for writing dictations in

10. Student’s Handbook, containing a detailed explanation of

how and why the Callan Method works

11. Director’s Handbook, showing anyone how to set up a

Callan Method school

12. Information Booklet, containing general information about

the Callan Method

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