We are working with Cambridge Assessment International Education towards endorsement of this title. APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH
Approaches to teaching and learning English
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Structure of the course
The Learner’s Book contains nine units, each based on exciting themes like ‘Adventure’ and ‘Dangers of the sea’. Most units contain a range of international fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama text extracts, reflecting the interests and diverse cultural backgrounds of your learners. There are two units that are different (Unit 2: ‘Hey, You Down There’ and Unit 7: ‘The Travel Agency’). Each of these two units focuses on one full short story, promoting reading for pleasure and allowing students to delve deeper into language and meaning.
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Every unit contains six sessions, each designed to take around 2.5 hours of teaching time including the Workbook activities and Worksheets. If your timing is different, we hope the materials are flexible enough for you to be able to fit them to your requirements.
The Workbook accompanies the Learner’s Book, providing supplementary and extension material. The content mirrors the content of the Learner’s Book to support: reinforcement of concepts introduced in the Learner’s Book
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the Language focus parts of some sessions
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differentiated activities
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independent work or homework.
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Skills development
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Cambridge Lower Secondary English offers an integrated approach to the four language skills (Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing), allowing you to cover learning objectives from each strand of the curriculum framework in your English lessons.
Speaking and listening
Speaking and Listening underpin this course. Each session offers opportunities to consolidate and develop the Speaking and Listening sub-strands (making yourself understood, showing understanding, group work and discussion, performance, and reflection and evaluation). Listening activities are included in the Learner’s Book with accompanying recordings available in this Teacher’s Resource. (If you are unable to play the recordings, audio scripts in this Teacher’s Resource allow you to read the text out to your class instead.) Audio tracks actively promote good pronunciation of English and you will find recordings of all the texts from the Learner’s Book in this Teacher’s Resource.
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