Language skills
Each chapter of this book is divided into four parts accommodating the four language skills.
Listening : The book does not contain audio material. However it contains texts which will be read by the teacher at the beginning of the listening part of the chapter.
Speaking : The book contains plenty of speaking exercises which allow students to use English orally.
Reading : The book contains plenty of reading materials.
Writing : In the end of each chapter, students are given assignments to create or compose text in which they practice their writing ability.
The book designed adequately to covers the four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It does not accompanied with the special audio materials, but it does contains the text to be read by the teacher in the listening part of each chapter. Moreover, it can be covered by the speaking exercises which automatically make the students who are not speaking as the listener.
By going through the goals of the book, I can conclude that it does emphasize the skills that are emphasized by the curriculum, in this case, able to understand the functions, the text structure, and the language features in different types of text, and the ability to use it correctly and appropriately as a means of communication.
To sum up, the book does integrate the four skills, but in quite imbalance approach towards each skill. However, this book is adequate to achieve the language skills that are emphasized by the curriculum.