How did it all begin?

In 1994, a new language school was set up in Cracow - PROLOG . It can be best described as a team of highly motivated, enthusiastic teachers who are open to new ideas. It includes Poles as well as foreigners - native speakers of the languages taught. We concentrate on teaching three languages: English, German, and Polish as a foreign language. From the very beginning our teaching methods have been determined by communicative approach, prevalent in teaching foreign languages for many years now. It allows our students to develop all language skills at the same time thus giving them the opportunity to maximize the activeness of the language at every level of learning. English and German teaching programs for particular levels of proficiency were designed on the basis of the teaching and examining standards of the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate (now Cambridge ESOL) and the Goethe Institute (now Goethe Institut Internationes) respectively. While choosing a course book, we look for materials which allow us to prepare a framework for teaching programs for each level and which guarantee continuity of the material through the numerous levels of proficiency that we teach. That is the reason why we have chosen series of materials by renowned publishing houses: Longman, Cambridge University Press, LTP (Thomson and Heinle) and Hueber Verlag. In stark contrast to the above, the offer of available materials for teaching Polish as a foreign language was extremely poor. At the beginning, it was dominated by materials which did not explore the communicative approach, which, according to us, did not guarantee effective learning of speaking and listening, or reading and writing skills in Polish. To make things worse, there were no established standards of teaching Polish as a foreign language, making effective teaching even more difficult. Only in recent years have significant changes in this field taken place: several more modern teaching books appeared on the market and the system of the state certifying examinations was started. Taking advantage of the many years of experience in teaching foreign languages and utilizing the experience of teachers cooperating with us, we decided to prepare our own materials for teaching Polish as a foreign language, addressed to the universal, adult learner. This opportunity was given to us by the European Union program Socrates/Lingua 2 . PROLOG put forward a project to be realized within the framework of the program. The project consisted of designing a concept, writing, testing and publishing a series of modern teaching books.
The materials you are looking at now were designed in accordance with the concepts of the European system of language teaching (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) , as well as guidelines of the State Certification Commission for Polish as a Foreign Language (Państwowa Komisja Poświadczania Znajomości Języka Polskiego jako Obcego) .The series, in its current form, was designed for the learners preparing for the first certifying examination at the level PL-B1.