Exploring English
Exploring English is a
four-level course written especially for teenage students.
The course employs established methods of language
teaching, a structural curriculum and a communicative
approach.
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KEY FEATURES (Levels 1
- 3)
• Storyline: an
exciting, real-life sequence of events based on the lives
of a group of young people, some living in England and some
visiting England. This story reflects students' own lives
and interests, and serves to raise awareness of
multi-cultural issues.
• Reading texts: a
variety of carefully-selected texts enables students to
explore an interesting range of issues and ideas.
• Grammar:
coverage of grammatical functions is simple but thorough.
Grammar is always fully exploited in context through
interesting and appropriate activities.
• Vocabulary
building: extensive practice in vocabulary
development and word-building is given by means of a
variety of stimulating tasks.
• Skills work: the
four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are
developed through simple step-by-step techniques.
• Communicative
activities, songs and puzzles: these make the
learning process easier and more enjoyable. They also
encourage students to want to communicate in English.
• Regular
revision: constant recycling and revision ensures
thorough practice of all material previously taught.
COMPONENTS (Levels
1 - 3)
For the student:
– a Coursebook (in full colour)
– an Activity Book (also in full colour)
For the teacher:
– a Teacher’s Edition in which each double page
of the Coursebook is reproduced (full size),
– preceded by a
double page of related teaching notes, guidance on
classroom procedures, extra
– activities and
answers to the exercises. Teacher’s Editions also
contain photocopiable material for
– extra practice.
– an Activity Book With Answers in full colour, in
which each page of the Activity Book is
– reproduced
(full size) with answers shown in place
– CD’s (or Cassettes) containing recordings of
all dialogues and reading passages, plus the Listening
– exercises, the
'Language Spot' drills for pronunciation, and the songs,
and
– a Test Booklet with tests on each block of four
units. There are three separate, parallel versions
– of each test,
allowing the teacher to give pupils sitting next to each
other different tests if desired.
EXPLORING
ENGLISH 1
• Emphasis on the spoken language
• Dialogues in comic-strip style with teenage appeal
• Reading material in teenage magazine format
Key structures in Exploring English 1:
• verb ‘to be’, ‘have got’ / ‘has got’
• present continuous
• prepositions of place and time
• simple present
• countable and uncountable nouns
• simple past
• ‘going to’ and ‘will’ futures
• comparative and superlative
• imperatives and ‘let’s’
• modals ‘can’, ‘must’, ‘may’
• present perfect
EXPLORING ENGLISH 2
• Emphasis on the spoken language continues, but with a gentle progression to longer reading texts
• Dialogues present informal language in the context of teenagers talking about their problems
• Reading material again in teenage magazine format
Key structures in Exploring English 2:
• past continuous
• ‘used to’
• ‘may’ and ‘might’
• adverbs of manner and frequency
• first and second conditionals
• future continuous
• present perfect continuous
• past perfect simple
• the infinitive
• ‘have to’ and ‘must’
• passive voice (present, future and past)
EXPLORING ENGLISH 3
• Students learn the idioms and phrasal verbs most commonly used in spoken English
• Reading texts get longer, but are still in magazine format
• Writing skills are further developed in exercises with clear guidelines, always preceded
• by full models
Key structures in Exploring English 3:
• infinitive and gerund
• passive voice (new tenses)
• past perfect continuous
• future perfect
• third conditional
• ‘could’ and ‘be able to’
• ‘should’ and ‘ought to‘
• causatives
• direct and reported speech
• relative clauses
• ‘would rather’, ‘had better’
EXPLORING ENGLISH 4
Standard units consist of 3 sections, each of which is four pages long. Every section begins with either a dialogue or a reading passage - all these are recorded on the CD’s (or cassettes). After this come a range of exercises, leading into skills work. Every third unit is a ‘functional unit’ consisting of two double-page spreads.
Components
For the student:
– a Coursebook (in full colour)
– an Activity Book (also in full colour)
For the teacher:
– a Teacher’s Book in which the Coursebook pages are reproduced
– (full size and in colour), but with answers shown in place
– a Teacher’s Guide (black and white) giving suggestions for
– exploiting the Coursebook material and ideas for further activities,
– together with Photocopiable Material and Listening Tapescripts
– an Activity Book With Answers in which the Activity Book pages
– are reproduced (full size and in colour), but with answers shown
– in place
– CD’s (or Cassettes) containing recordings of the dialogues and reading
– passages, plus the listening sections, and
– a Test Booklet with tests on each block of four units. There are
– two separate, parallel versions of each test, allowing the teacher
– to give pupils sitting next to each other different tests if desired.