We Are Heroes! brochure

Life skills for the real world

With Pupil’s Book eBook and Test Generator

A vibrant Primary course which has real world communication at its core.

Engaging characters and stories provide authentic contexts for communication and an integrated life skills syllabus helps foster critical and creative thinking.

WHY IS WE ARE HEROES! THE BEST CHOICE? • Engaging real-world content and tasks, tailored to the needs and maturity of your pupils, help them to progressively gain communicative competence.

• An emphasis on the development of life skills, presented in a child-friendly way, encourages pupils to reflect and apply the skills to their own lives.

• An integrated approach to the four skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) ensures that pupils develop both receptive and productive skills in parallel, as in real life.

•T hroughout the course, thinking skills activities are used to develop pupils’ ability to think critically and creatively.

• We Are Heroes! has a wide range of extension material which can be found at the back of the Pupil’s Book and Workbook. This provides teachers with the flexibility they need to adapt the level according to their classroom needs.

•T ips and accommodations for Special Education Needs will allow all pupils to learn in the best possible way.

MEET THE AUTHORS: “We Are Heroes! focuses on English as it is used in the real world. Pupils receive systematic support enabling them to complete fun, communicative tasks, set in real world contexts.

My pupils have really enjoyed and benefited from these tasks.”

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“By helping family, friends and members of the local community, every child can be a hero.”

“Teaching children to think critically and creatively is more important than ever.

We Are Heroes! helps children to develop new ways of thinking so that they can explore and make sense of their world.”

“We Are Heroes! is about confidencebuilding. We have developed activities to help students to feel comfortable about challenging themselves and thinking about how they learn effectively. I think our devoted Study Skills and Thinking Skills sections will be valued by teachers and students alike.”

EVOLVING WITH YOUR PUPILS 1 & 2

• In the Heroes Club the four characters participate in different fun activities in their neighbourhood and learn about the world around them in an engaging, age-appropriate way.

• I ntegrated skills are developed through the use of motivating songs, stories and videos.

•T he life skills activities use friendly comic strip characters, making them more accessible to this age group.

•T he final review task has a video which can be used as a model by pupils to show what they have learnt in the unit.

•T he Heroes Community Centre is where the characters like to spend their free time. They are now part of a wider community.

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• I ntegrated skills continue to be developed through the use of songs, stories, raps and videos, with productive and receptive skills being worked on together.

•L ife skills are broadened using stories in which pupils need to analyze the various possible outcomes.

•T he Grammar Heroes present vocabulary and grammar within an appropriate and fun context.

• At the end of the unit, using their linguistic and communicative skills, pupils demonstrate what they have learnt.

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• The four characters, Heroes Connect, are a group that meet up and work on their intercultural blog and vlog project. They share information with their peers around the world, enhancing cultural awareness.

• Continued focus is given to integrated skills with emphasis given to Digital Competence.

•T hinking skills lessons help pupils to develop new ways of thinking in order to explore and make sense of this world.

• Grammar is presented in the Grammar Connect section where pupils are given the appropriate tools to work out grammatical patterns.

• At the end of each unit, pupils watch a vlog which reinforces and extends the content of the unit, while also exposing pupils to new everyday English language.

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• AUTHENTIC CHILD-FRIENDLY LIFE SKILLS Developing life skills in 21st century pupils is a major theme in We Are Heroes! Using ageappropriate tasks, pupils work on life skills within contexts that they can relate to.

The focus on life skills encourages children to reflect on key aspects of their own everyday lives.

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• FOCUS ON REAL WORLD TASKS Authentic tasks and contexts are used to encourage child-friendly real world communication using different examples of real language forms.

The tasks presented help pupils to progressively develop their communicative competence.

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The level of challenge evolves taking into account the needs and maturity of pupils.

• AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE FOUR SKILLS The four skills are carefully integrated to provide richer, more authentic language development.

The four skills are worked on in parallel, like in real life.

Integrated Skills lessons in Levels 5 and 6 combine both receptive and productive skills.

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• THINKING SKILLS Thinking skills activities can be found throughout the course. These develop pupils’ ability to think both critically and creatively.

Thinking skills are systematically developed in line with the age of the pupils.

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• CLASSROOM INNOVATION We Are Heroes! has a wide range of innovative support material for both teachers and pupils.

The Pupil’s Digital Resources foster student autonomy and digital literacy while creating a strong home-school link.

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The Teacher’s Book comes with Special Education Needs tips which aim to provide teachers with tools to work in the classroom more efficiently with different types of pupils. Worksheets and tests designed for children with special education needs are online, ready to be downloaded.

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The photocopiable material for the communication activities (Levels 1 to 4) provides teachers with all the necessary tools for setting real-world communication tasks in an enjoyable way.

• FLEXIBLE MATERIALS Optional extension material at the end of both the Pupil’s Book and Workbook allows teachers to easily adapt the level to their pupils’ needs.

1 & 2 • Seasons lessons •H eroes Reading Club lessons • Reviews – an introduction to exam-type practice

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eading extension R Grammar extension Functional language Festivals Reviews with examtype practice

5 & 6 •T hinking skills lessons • Heroes Project • Grammar reinforcement and extension • Extra reading • Festivals • Study skills lessons • Exam practice: with international examinationtype practice

DIGITAL MATERIAL

Reliable and comprehensive digital pack

TEACHER’S RESOURCE CENTRE • All the supplementary materials teachers may need for their class at the touch of a button.

TEST GENERATOR

• An innovative tool to make teachers’ lives easier when it comes to testing and also to provide flexibility.

• Enhanced digital versions of the Pupil’s Book and Teacher’s Book.

• It allows the teacher to present the material to the class.

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TEACHER DIGITAL RESOURCES

VIDEOS

• Integrated into the lesson stages in every unit.

Supplementary material including the songs and their karaoke versions, which can be downloaded as MP3 files, and the photocopiable material needed for the class activities.

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PUPIL’S BOOK eBOOK

Digital version of the Pupil’s Book with embedded audio, animations (in Levels 1 & 2) and end-of-unit video.

*Pupil’s Book includes an access code to the Pupil’s Resource Centre and Pupil’s Book eBook.

Visit http://digital.macmillan.com.ar to find more about the series digital resources.

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• FOR TEACHERS

*The Teacher’s Resource Centre Pack includes: • Downloadable audio

• Digital Flashcards

• Grammar and Vocabulary Reinforcement and Extension worksheets

Teacher’s Book (with access to Teacher’s Resource Centre)

LEVELS 1 AND 2

• Videos • Photocopiables for final unit outcome (in black and white and in colour)

• Classroom Language cards • Welcome Unit word cards

• Festival worksheets

• Presentation word cards

• Real world research worksheets

• Downloadable audio

• Record sheets

• Videos and animations

• Evaluation rubrics

• Photocopiables for communication activities in Lesson 4

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests)

• Photocopiables for final unit outcome (in black and white and in colour)

• SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

• Festival worksheets

Test Generator

DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE

• Digital Flashcards

LEVELS 5 AND 6

• Vocabulary Reinforcement worksheets

• Song sheets • Record sheets

• Grammar Extension worksheets

• Evaluation rubrics

• Functional language worksheets

• SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

• Videos

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests)

• Downloadable audio

• Thinking Skills templates • Record sheets

LEVELS 3 AND 4

• Functional language worksheets

Pupil’s Book eBook

• Presentation word cards

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests) • SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

Visual Aids Booklet DOWNLOAD (Levels 1–3) SAMPLE HERE

• Evaluation rubrics

• Grammar Extension worksheets

• Grammar and Vocabulary Reinforcement worksheets

• FOR PUPILS Pupil’s Book Pack (Pupil’s Book with access to Pupil’s Book eBook & Pupil’s Resource Centre) DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE

Workbook DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE

For more information, visit macmillanenglish.com/ar/we­are­heroes or tell us how we can help you further at argentina.eltinfo@macmillaneducation.com The We Are Heroes! series covers:

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