Publisher's Synopsis
Student Book and eText with Digital Audio CD
- Skill-integrated units focusing on all communication skills
- Variety of grammar, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, reading, writing, and communication activities
- Personalisation activities that get students to share information about their backgrounds, interests, and opinions
- Standards-based life skills lessons aligned with key curriculum frameworks and assessment systems
- New Reading and Writing Workshop sections for career and academic readiness:
- Language arts academic discourse activities
- Informational readings
- Writing process lessons
- Picture dictionary lessons for introducing unit vocabulary
- Check-up tests and skills checks in all units
- Gazette magazine sections with high-interest material for use in class and at home
- Standard CD tracks for Gazette activities and mp3 audio files for major lesson features, including model conversations, readings, and Gazette activities (downloadable to a computer or audio player)
eText
Use this digital tool to complement the program's dynamic conversational approach. The eText supports students' independent practice for self-paced learning.
- Pages of the Student Book, with the complete audio program in embedded links, provide conversation, listening, pronunciation, reading, and Gazette practice
- Notes and Bookmark tools enable students to add, receive and share notes, and bookmark pages to revisit them later
- FunZone activities, games, videos, music, and animations reinforce each unit's objectives:
- Vocabulary flashcards
- Skill building activities for vocabulary, grammar, reading, and life skills
- GrammarToons animations with activities
- GrammarRaps, GrammarSongs, and video segments with activities (Levels 1 and 2 only)
