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)