ELT CATALOGUE 2013
Young Learners
English With Ellie English with Ellie is a highly flexible three-level course for children learning English in kindergarten. It helps make pre-school students’ first contact with the language fun, exciting and meaningful. This brand new series creates a fantastic, enriching learning environment where even the youngest children will be able to communicate in English from the onset. Levels: 3 levels Ages: 3 to 5 Components: Student's Book with stickers + Cut-outs + Songs CD Teacher's Book + Class CDs Teacher's Resource CD ROM
Sprinkles Sprinkles is an original three-level series ideal for pre-school children. It immerses children in authentic English and relies on their natural learning abilities to acquire a foreign language. It also helps students build other developmental skills appropriate to their age, such as gross and fine motor skills, visual and auditory discrimination as well as pre-reading and writing skills. Levels: 3 levels Ages: 3 to 5 Components: Student's Book + Stickers + Audio CD Activity Pad Teacher's Guide + Class CDs Teacher's Cut-outs Big Book
Children
Kids’ Web Kids’ Web accompanies children in all phases of their intellectual development, attending to their individual characteristics and offering them the possibility of learning a foreign language in a significant, fun and entertaining way. A meaningful use of the language is one of the main features of the series, which relates the activities proposed in the classroom to the daily life of children in their social context and the real possibilities of application of the knowledge
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Key features: The Kids’ Web series helps children: evolve in a stimulating atmosphere all the time; become capable of interpreting the overall meaning of a text without necessarily having understood the meaning of each and every single word; become creative in the use of language;
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develop an excellent imagination; be exposed to a vast repertoire of information through varied sources; learn in different ways; crave dynamism in the classroom; interact with the main character, Webby, through augmented reality.
Levels: 5 levels (Beginner to Upper-Elementary) Ages: 6 to 11 Components: For the child: Course Book with a built-in Activity Book CD-ROM with songs, karaoke version of songs, games and extra practice For the teacher: Teacher’s Book with notes, suggestions for extra and alternative activities and annual lesson planning Audio CD with listening activities, songs and karaoke version of songs CD-ROM with photocopiable material, tests and diploma
Children
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Sparks is a six-level course for primary school students. This series offers
an innovative two-pronged learning approach, working with both language
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and content-learning objectives.The main focus of Sparks' lessons is communicative. This allows for the enrichment of the class through numerous
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Levels: 6 levels (Beginner to Elementary) Ages: 6 to 11 Components: Student's book + Student's Multi-ROM Activity Book Stick Puppets (Levels 1 & 2) Pop-outs (Sparks 1 & 2) Cut-outs (Sparks 3, 4, 5 & 6) Project Booklet (Sparks 3 & 4)
Grammar and Writing Booklet (Sparks 5 & 6) Teacher's Book + Stick Puppets (Sparks 1 & 2) + Class CDs
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Sparks provides a content and language-related learning programme for the full six years of primary education. Each lesson includes a CLIL Objective with an explanation of the CLIL topic being developed. The main focus of all lessons is oral communication. The Literacy Programme is developed using stories, and has two basic elements: Literacy development and Phonics. Basic Competences are clearly laid out in the Teacher's Book.
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Step Up Higher Step Up Higher is a highly effective six-level series for children learning English in
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primary school. It combines the latest methodology with a well-structured set of contents. This attractive series enables students to acquire language through rich and interesting topics that draw on their own experiences. These topics promote natural and meaningful communication while developing other areas of the curriculum.
Levels: 6 levels (Beginner to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 6 to 11 Components: Student’s Book +Student’s Cut-outs + Student’s CD Practice Book Teacher’s Guide + Class Audio CD Resource Pack: Resource Booklet + Teacher’s Resource CD
Key features: Develops the child socially, cognitively and artistically. Provides extensive skills development through projects, games and cross-curricular activities. Offers traditional and original children´s literature to develop comprehension skills and promote fluency. Develops self-discovery of language within meaningful, highly interesting themes. Includes complete reading and writing programs. Offers comprehensive practice activities. Possesses solid grammar base.
Reading Paths is a supplementary reading series for primary school which can be used with any EFL course.
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Levels: 6 levels (Beginner to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 6 to 11 Components: Student’s Book
Key features: Reading lessons introduce the story with activities that develop oral language; frontload vocabulary of story; and pre-reading activities such as predictions. Checking, Summarizing and Reflecting lessons provide opportunities for the development of oral fluency and reading comprehension. Additional learning activities such as Meeting Individual Needs and Multiple Intelligences are included.
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Children Rocket to the Earth Rocket to the Earth is a three-level course specially designed for 6 to 8 year-old children that motivates them to express in English from the very start. It caters for different learning styles and skills, which makes it ideal for diverse teaching situations and mixed-ability classes. It provides a wealth of material to make learning and teaching a highly enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Levels: 3 levels (Starter to Elementary) Ages: 6 to 8 Components: Course Book with stickers + Student’s CD Teacher’s Guide + Class CDs + Resource Pack
The Magic Twister The Magic Twister is a dynamic topic-based primary course with a wide range of multimedia resources. Developed to offer each student and teacher the flexibility they need, the course is based on activities which learners enjoy doing.
Levels: 3 levels (Starter to Elementary) Ages: 6 to 8 Components: Course Book with stickers + Song and Story CD + Cut-out Book (Levels 1 & 2) Activity Book + CD-ROM (Levels 1 & 2) Course Book + Song and Story CD + Reader (Level 3) Activity Book + DVD-ROM (Level 3) Teacher's Book + Class CDs
Children All Around All Around is a three-level series for children in primary schools with one to three teaching periods of English per week. This series focuses primarily on the teaching of English as a foreign language. However, the topics, activities and resources have been carefully designed to also teach the whole child – emotionally, socially, physically, creatively and cognitively. In this way, the students develop their potentials across the school curriculum as they acquire the necessary language skills in English Levels: 3 levels (true-beginner to elementary) Ages: 9 to 11 Components: Student’s Pack: Course Book with a built-in Workbook + Student’s Interactive CD-ROM Teacher’s Pack: Teacher’s Book + Audio CD + Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM
Trails Trails is a new dynamic three-level course for children starting English as from nine years old. Its graded, hands-on proposal takes learners from a true beginner to an elementary level. In the same way real children turn into pre-teens, so do the characters and their interests in the series, accompanying students in their developmental process. Levels: 3 levels (Beginner to Elementary) Ages: 9 to 11 Components: Course Book + Activity Kit + Student's CD Teacher's Handbook + Class CDs + Resource Kit + Annual Planning DVD-ROM
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Howdy! is a course for children starting English at primary school. Its graded, hands-on proposal takes students from a true-beginner to an elementary level. Its balanced literacy programme exposes children to language before they actually produce through flexible tasks related to the outside world. Levels: 3 levels (Starter to Elementary) Ages: 8 to 11 Components: Course Book with integrated activities + Language Choice + Audio CD (Level Starter) Course Book with integrated activities + Reading & Writing Choice + Audio CD (Levels 1 & 2) Teacher's Handbook + Class CD + Annual Planning
Teens
Sign Up to English Sign Up to English is a three-level series (from beginner or false beginner to pre-intermediate level) specially designed for teenagers studying English as a foreign language. Each lesson in this series provides real-life situations, engaging topics and contextualised activities to cater for the development and appropriation of the target language in a consistent and productive way.
Personalisation is a strong element in SIGN UP to ENGLISH: learners are given various opportunities to relate the contents of each lesson to their own experience. Topics involving ethics, environmental issues, health, cultural diversity, education, work, technology, leisure activities and citizenship are used in reading texts, project work activities and thought-provoking discussions. Grammar and vocabulary are presented in manageable chunks in every lesson and reviewed at the end of every unit.
Levels: 3 levels (Beginner / False Beginner to Pre-intermediate) Ages: 12 to 15 Components: For the student: Course Book with a built-in Workbook Student’s Interactive CD-ROM For the teacher: Teacher’s Book with lesson-by-lesson plans with answer key and photocopiable tests Audio CD Teacher’s Resource CD-ROM with photocopiable activities for extension and consolidation and extra photocopiable tests
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Teens
English In motion is a new four-level course for secondary school students, which includes CLIL objectives' lessons, contemporary contexts and a full
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range of multimedia components to enhance students' learning.
Levels: 4 levels (Elementary to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 12 to 15 Components: Student's Book + Student's Multi-ROM + Dictionaries CD-ROM Workbook Teacher's Book + Class Audio CD Teacher's Resource Book Website
Awesome Awesome is a three-level general English course for the 21st century that takes students from an elementary level to an intermediate level.
Levels: 3 levels (Elementary to Intermediate) Ages: 12 + Components: Student's Book Practice Book Reference Guide CD-Rom Teacher's Book Resource Book Class Audio CDs + Test
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Teens Way to go! Way to Go! is a three-level course book for secondary school education with a clear grammatical sylabus which provides students with reading strategies and critical thinking skills.
Levels: 3 levels (Beginner to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 12 to 15 Components: Student's Book with Practice Section Teacher's Book + Class CDs + Mixed-ability Worksheets + Tests
We Can Do It!
We Can Do It! is an innovative six-level course that takes learners from beginner to low-intermediate level. It emphasizes the functional and communicative aspects of the language and motivates students by encouraging self-evaluation and by highlighting what they can do with the language they are learning. Levels: 6 levels (Beginner to Low-Intermediate) Ages: 12 to 17 Components: Student’s Book with Practice Section + Audio CD Teacher's Book Teacher's Resource CD-ROM
English Toolkit English Toolkit is a three-level course especially designed for upper-secondary school classrooms. It takes students from Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate level and focuses on the language and skills required to get ready for today's working world or university life. The series provides grammar and vocabulary study and the practice of the four skills, laying emphasis on reading comprehension.
Levels: 3 levels (Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate) Ages: 15 to 18 Components: Course Book + Workbook + Grammar Reference Section Teacher's Book + Content Areas CD-ROM + Audio CD
Adults Young Adults
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The Big Picture The Big Picture is a highly visual and easy to use course for adult and
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young adult learners of English, offering 90 to 120 hours of core classroom material.
Key features: Your students will love the striking images and will instantly engage with the interactive digital resources. Carefully graded activities will give students the opportunities and support they need to express themselves confidently in English and the final task in each unit will allow them to apply the language learnt in a practical and fun context. As a teacher you will be able to monitor your students’ progress via The Big Picture Learning Platform, a regularly updated site with trackable language revision and extension activities. The Big Picture Test Generator will allow you to build your own tests and exams and you will be able to blend online and coursebook activities with the online lesson planner.With such a wealth of digital and print resources for both you and your students, The Big Picture will provide the perfect frame for learning English in your classroom.
Levels: 4 levels (Elementary to Upper-Intermediate) Ages: 18 + Components: Student’s BookWorkbook + Student’s Audio CD Teacher’s Book + Class Audio CDs The Big Picture Learning Platform / The Big Picture Test Generator Website
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Adults Young Adults
Essential English Course Richmond Essential English Course is a brand new, all-in-one course for adults and young adults. Based on extensive research in real classrooms in various countries, this book has been written by Paul Seligson, renowned ELT author and teacher trainer and provides an unbeatable multimedia offer consisting on a Digital Book, a Website for both students and teachers and a CD-ROM.
Levels: 5 levels (Beginner to Upper-Intermediate) Ages: 15 + Components: Course Book Pack integrated Activity Book + Student's CD-ROM Teacher's Pack with Photocopiable Resources + Class Audio CD Teacher's Digital Book Website
New Framework New Framework substantially refines and updates Framework whilst retaining all the best features of the original course's approach to skills work, communicative competence and fresh, dynamic topics.
Levels: 4 levels (Elementary to Upper-Intermediate) Ages: 15+ Components: Student’s Book + Reference Guide + CD-ROM Workbook + Student’s Audio CD Teacher’s Book + Teacher’s Resource Book + Class Audio CDs World English DVD Website
Elevator Elevator is a four-level course that combines a fresh approach to topics with an easy-to-teach methodology. It's the perfect solution for teachers who want a course that offers clear learning objectives, fast-paced lessons and lots of meaningful speaking practice.
Levels: 4 levels (Elementary to Upper-Intermediate) Ages: 18+ Components: Student's Book + Language Lift + Student's CD-ROM Workbook + Student's Audio CD Teacher's Book + Teacher's Resource Book + Class Audio CDs Website
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Practice Tests Richmond Exam Practice Tests will familiarise students with the form and
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layout of their Cambridge ESOL exam, while giving them vital practice of the language, skills and strategies they will need to master. Each Student’s Book contains five full practice exams, including realistic visual material for the speaking paper. Each CD-ROM contains computer-based versions of these five tests, plus two additional tests, making seven complete computer-based tests. Components: Student's Book + CD-ROM Teacher's Resource Book + Class Audio CDs
Key features: Revise and update Richmond’s successful original courses including brand new material written by experienced examiners. Perfect support for exam courses such as Richmond’s Target KET, Target PET and Target FCE, or alongside any general English course. The PET and FCE Practice Tests Books contain full colour sections for the Speaking paper visual materials Students can choose to do the practice test electronically on the CD-ROM as general practice or to familiarize themselves with the computer-based exam. The layout is similar to that of the actual exam so students know exactly what to expect on exam day. Each Teacher’s Resource Book contains exam information and tips, full answers, full transcripts for the Listening paper, model answers with examiner comments for the Writing paper, colour visual material for the Speaking paper.
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Exams
Target FCE Target FCE is a dynamic new First Certificate Exam preparation course that combines essential exam practice, tips and strategies with thorough language and skills development. Revolving around 12 key exam topics and including realistic exam practice for all five papers in every unit, Target FCE offers an effective and fun route to exam success.
Components: Student's Book + Student's CD-ROM Workbook + Audio CD Teacher's Book + Class Audio CD Website
Target Pet - Ket Target KET for schools and Target PET prepare students for the University of Cambridge ESOL Examination's new KET for Schools and PET exam. Essential exam practice, tips and strategies are combined with fun communicative activities, ensuring lessons are varied and engaging - and that students are ready for their exam.
Components: Student's Book + CD-ROM Workbook Teacher's Book + Class Audio CD Website
Richmond Interactive Digital Books The Richmond Interactive Digital Practice Tests Books have been specially designed for students who are sitting for the Cambridge Young Learners English Tests: Starters, Movers and Flyers. Each Digital Book includes three complete Practice Tests with their corresponding Answer Keys in printable format plus a wealth of interactive vocabulary games and activities for extra practice and fun!
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Readers Richmond Primary Readers Levels: 6 levels (Beginner to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 6 to 11 Components: Reader + Audio CD Downloadable Teacher's Notes + Worksheets
Media Readers Levels: 4 levels (Starter to Pre-Intermediate) Ages: 11 + Components: Reader + Audio CD Downloadable Teacher's Notes + Worksheets
Resources Handbooks for Teachers: A highly practical series of methodology guides, written by teachers for teachers.
Celebrating our Heritage The Mixed Ability Class Evaluating your students Helping Students to Learn
Dictionaries
Mini Dictionary
Pocket Dictionary
33,000 words, sentences and examples + mini phrasebook for travelers.
70,000 translations + supplementary useful expressions + maps + CD-ROM
Fully Illustrated 35,000 definitions + 3,000 illustrations
First Dictionary 1,400 illustrations + idioms + language notes