What lies at the heart of SPEAK YOUR MIND?
To succeed in today’s changing world young adults need to communicate in a confident and competent way and have the necessary language and thinking skills to succeed in academic, professional and everyday life. SPEAK YOUR MIND is a new 6-level general English course for young adults that develops confident communication and helps students think and process information more effectively. It equips them with the skills not just to survive, but to thrive and achieve their goals in life.
Better Thinking SPEAK YOUR MIND encourages students to consider other points of view before expressing their own ideas on real-life issues.
Confident Communication The course provides students with confident communication strategies helping them express their own opinions clearly and competently in a variety of situations.
Life Readiness It also links language learning with real life to equip students with the language and skills needed in their academic and professional future.
Easy-to-use digital support SPEAK YOUR MIND offers an array of digital components and tools to make teachers’ work and students’ learning process easy, accessible and engaging in every teaching and learning situation.
Better Thinking
Support your students’ thinking and study skills development to help them thrive in their academic and professional lives.
Stimulate their thinking skills
The Unit Opener and frequent Thinking skills tasks throughout the unit stimulate all types of thinking and provide students with plenty of opportunities to understand, manipulate and generate information.
Teach them life skills
Language and Life lessons in every unit help students develop the skills they needs for success. The lessons take students through a step-by-step process in which they work together to analyze a problem, solve it or create a proposal in a real-life scenario.
Help them develop good study skills
Study Skills lessons in every other unit teach students how to do efficient research, give presentations, and how to improve their memory.
To learn more about thinking skills download Dr. Kagan’s article at macmillanenglish.com/ar/speak-your-mind
Confident Communication
Create a classroom environment in which your students will feel motivated to express their ideas freely and communicate with confidence.
Boost your students’ confidence to speak
Every Unit Opener encourages students to share what they already know and build on the knowledge and language they already have. These ‘vlog’ style videos provide a model for discussion and encourage students to speak their minds.
Provide frequent opportunities for practice
Every lesson ends with a specific communicative outcome and a collaborative task in which students use the target language and grammar from the lesson to communicate their ideas and express their opinions.
Teach language and speaking strategies
CONFIDENT COMMUNICATOR boxes with tips on functional language and speaking strategies help students initiate a conversation, keep it going and overcome communication problems.
Watch a sample ‘vlog’ style video at macmillanenglish.com/ar/speak-your-mind
Life Readiness
Bring real life language into the classroom and discover more about the real lives of professional people.
Make your students familiar with the specifics of particular jobs FOLLOW A PRO lessons and documentary style videos that follow a day in the life of a particular profession provide additional language input and help students connect language practice directly to real life.
Watch a sample FOLLOW A PRO video at macmillanenglish.com/ar/speak-your-mind
Help your students personalize their learning MAKE IT REAL, MAKE IT YOURS and MAKE IT HAPPEN boxes let students personalize their learning and add the words and phrases they need to use for work or study. MAKE IT DIGITAL boxes provide extra ideas for online work outside of class connecting material from the lesson with individual student’s work.
Digital Support for Students DIGITAL STUDENT’S BOOK AND WORKBOOK
SPEAK YOUR MIND provides students with flexible digital tools that make learning English accessible and engaging and helps them practice English anytime they want. A fully digital version of the Student’s Book and Workbook provide a rich interactive experience for students. They offer easy access to audio and video resources as well as quick links to explanations and further practice.
On-the-go practice Student’s Resource Center
FLEXIBLE ON-THE-GO PRACTICE
The innovative Student’s App fits language practice into students’ busy lives. It increases students’ confidence to communicate and provides extra practice in a fun and motivating way.
The Student’s App gives access to: • On-the-Go practice activities • Progress Tracker
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• eBook • Student’s Resource Center including audio and video materials
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Over 100 item-based activities with 12 speaking activities per level. Tasks available in practice mode, and challenge mode against the clock.
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Gamified environment
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All activities in the App are mapped to the course syllabus.
Easy-to-use Support for Teachers
The course ensures that the class planning process is as streamlined as possible and gives teachers the flexibility to conduct lessons in any teaching scenario.
TEACHER’S EDITION
The Teacher’s Edition comes with a code to the Teacher’s App – an all-in-one innovative digital solution that gives access to all necessary materials and tools.
Reduced Student’s Book pages and GO TO pointers make lesson navigation easy and save time on lesson planning.
Annotated answers for every activity save lesson preparation time and allow teachers to focus on students’ performance in class.
Teachers are given support with tips for dealing with course topics, specific language issues and common errors.
INNOVATIVE TEACHER’S APP
• Classroom Presentation Kit with a page-faithful Student’s Book and Workbook view.
• Homework Manager allowing teachers to assign homework and send it directly to the students’ smartphones.
• Progress Tracker to check how students are performing and provide extra, personalized support where needed.
• Test Generator allowing teachers to customize tests on every skill by selecting particular activities from the menu.
• ePlanner a flexible tool for lesson planning allowing teachers to meet their goals within their time constraints.
• Teacher’s Resource Center providing Teachers with access to eBook, extra downloadable worksheets, audio files and videos, word lists and Ready-to-Go print tests.
Download sample worksheets at macmillanenglish.com/ar/speak-your-mind
BLENDED SOLUTIONS FOR STUDENTS
On-the-go practice Student’s Resource Center
SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS The Teacher’s App gives access to:
Student’s Book with Student’s App and access to Digital Workbook
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FULLY DIGITAL SOLUTION FOR STUDENTS
Classroom Presentation Kit Homework Manager Progress Tracker Test Generator ePlanner Teacher’s Resource Center eBook
On-the-go practice Student’s Resource Center
Digital Student’s Book with Digital Workbook and Student’s App
pre-A1
A1
Teacher’s Edition with Teacher’s App
A2
B1
B1 / B2
B2 / B2+
Starter
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4 (NEW)
Level 5 (NEW)
Student's Book with Student's App
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9781380031020
9781380031174
9781380031341
9781380037015
9781380037152
Student's Book with Student's App and access to Digital Workbook
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9781380031037
9781380031181
9781380031358
9781380036995
9781380037138
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Student’s Book + Workbook with Student’s App and access to Digital Workbook
9781380036650
Digital Student’s Book with Digital Workbook and Student’s App
9781380067593
9781380067609
9781380067630
9781380067661
9781380067692
9781380067722
Teacher's Edition with Teacher's App
9781380036674
9781380031044
9781380031198
9781380031365
9781380037039
9781380037176
Levels 1 to 5 also available in split editions.
To learn more and download a sample lesson, please visit: macmillanenglish.com/ar/speak-your-mind or contact your local Representative: argentina.eltinfo@macmillaneducation.com