Introduction Course characteristics

Vocabulary & Listening

In addition to the vocabulary introduced in Presentation 1, this section contains more complex vocabulary and expressions aimed at extending and enriching the lexical group.

Vocabulary is frequently presented with audio to aid passive comprehension of new words and active reproduction and modeling of good pronunciation.

Video & Life Skills

This page contains authentic video content (a vlog or an interview) set in different, reallife situations. There are some pre-watching and target vocabulary tasks before the videos, followed by comprehension tasks. This page can be used in class by showing the video and then carrying out the tasks; or as a flipped lesson, where students watch the video and do the compression tasks at home, and the teacher does the interactive and collaborative tasks in class.

Different types of authentic listening texts are presented in the course book including: interviews, dialogues, voice messages, radio programs.

The page always concludes with tasks practising, personalising and producing the target language in the video presented.

The pages in this section aim to develop students’ Life Skills.

Course characteristics

Introduction

Language Skills

The two pages of Language Skills focus on developing the receptive reading and listening skills, and on the productive skills of writing and speaking.

There is always a warm-up task before the reading to help students navigate the text. This can be vocabulary or picturebased.

Reading is always followed by various types of comprehension task.

The topic of the Listening text is linked to the reading text, but with a particular angle which presents another aspect of it. The variety of listening texts include: conversations, short talks, phone messages, and instructions.

Oral and written skills aim to build, improve and consolidate the competences required for international certification with speaking or writing tasks.

All the learning strategies suggested to help develop study skills are part of the Learn to Learn competences framework.