#Backtoschool – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Fri, 01 Oct 2021 07:21:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png #Backtoschool – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Gateway 2nd Edition https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/gateway-2nd-edition/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:24:25 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14400 Learning for life

Gateway 2nd edition is a 7-level course that leads teenage students to success in exams while equipping them with strong English language skills and knowledge they will need for further study and the world of work.

Praised for its clear and logical structure, Gateway 2nd Edition develops grammar, vocabulary and the four skills in a balanced way so that students can instantly use language in real-life communication. It offers a comprehensive and easy to implement approach to life skills training, enabling teenagers to thrive in the 21st century world. In addition, a thorough exam preparation programme improves students’ chances for better scores in school-leaving or international exams.

Key features

  • Practising teacher and best-selling author David Spencer, who works with teenagers every day, draws on his first-hand experience to provide practical solutions for motivating students and making teaching effective.
  • Life skills videos and tasks, covering topics such as Personal and Physical well-being, Citizenship or Social skills help to prepare teenagers for life outside the classroom.
  • The innovative Flipped Classroom videos, which students can watch before class, feature grammar presentations by the author, allowing teachers to find more time in the lessons to focus on real-life communication and add variety to their teaching.
  • Exam-style activities accompanied by the Exam Success tips provide numerous practice opportunities and ensure an in-depth understanding of the requirements.
  • The Gateway to Exams sections allow students to revise the exam techniques they have learnt and practise typical exam tasks, thus making them confident to take their exam successfully.

Student’s Book Premium Pack

The Student’s Book Premium Pack contains the print Student’s Book with a strong exams focus and exams task familiarisation throughout the Student’s Book. Access code to the Online Workbook and the Student’s Resource Centre which includes the Class audio, Workbook audio, Life skills and Flipped classroom videos and a downloadable Macmillan Reader.

Workbook

The Workbook mirrors the Student’s Book in its organisation, providing a wealth of extra grammar and vocabulary exercises and opportunities to practise reading, listening, speaking and writing. It also offers higher-level material in the form of Grammar challenge and Vocabulary extension exercises, particularly useful for mixed ability classes.

Digital Student’s Book and Online Workbook

Gateway 2nd edition leads teenagers to success in exams and prepares them for further study. This fully digital solution gives access to the Digital Student’s Book and Student’s Resource Centre with Life skills and Flipped classroom videos, Culture worksheets and a Macmillan Reader. The Online Workbook includes interactive activities and audio.

Teacher’s Book Premium Pack

The Teacher’s Book includes  a flexible Teacher’s eBook to allow for on screen lesson preparation,
access to the Teacher’s Resource Centre, Presentation Kit, Test Generator and digital student components. The Teacher’s Book includes teaching notes, teacher development sections with ideas for developing learning strategies and exam preparation.

Fully flexible course

If you teach remotely or would like to add an online learning element to your face to face classes, we have reconfigured and enhanced this course with digital components, making it ready for any scenario. The listing below shows you all of the components available for this course.

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Focus 2nd edition https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/focus-2nd-edition/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:29:25 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14387

Focus Second Edition is an even richer version of the best-selling English language learning series for upper secondary students. The new course retains the best of the first edition – a unique vocabulary building program and the 3Ms methodology. It enhances this with BBC video content and more thorough Use of English preparation, to offer everything teachers and students need to achieve success, in and out of the classroom.

With Focus Second Edition students will be motivated and engaged by the authentic content; they will be strong in all language and life skills, and prepared well for achieving great exam results.

Responding to students’ and teachers’ needs

Focus Second Edition retains what students and teachers highly valued in the first edition, and enhances it with authentic video content, including BBC videos and Focus vlogs.

This valuable, up-to-date content, along with plenty of new ideas and improvements, make the new edition a perfect fit for today’s teenagers and their busy teachers.

What’s new

  • New authentic BBC videos: 41 new, natural-language videos accompanied by video worksheets
  • New Focus Grammar Vlog videos: 32 new grammar vlogs with corresponding worksheets
  • New vocabulary and reading lessons: up-to-date content with themes and topics students will be interested in
  • More Use of English: extended opportunities for Use of English practice across all components
  • More writing practice: extended writing section for more contextualized and thorough practice
  • More speaking and personalization activities: clearly signposted personalized speaking activities for more targeted practice
  • More listening practice: more audio recordings provide increased opportunities to practice listening comprehension and receptive skills
The 3Ms methodology

Focus Second Edition is built upon motivation, memory and meaning: three principles that are specifically relevant to teenage learners. This reliable, tried and tested approach has been revised to deliver what today’s students need.

The new edition has been fully upgraded with many new features to make the content memorable, the themes meaningful and the learning process motivating.

Solid exam preparation

Focus Second Edition is a tried-and-tested series that gives your students the practice they need to succeed in their national and popular international English exams.

It provides students with regular opportunities to try exam-style tasks, tips and strategies available across all course components. Teachers can benefit from a thorough Assessment Package that includes a wide range of tests which can be used at different points in the course.

Students can use a Student’s Book with extra digital activities and resources, accompanied by a paper workbook. They can also choose a Student’s Book with Online Practice, extra digital activities and resources, where the workbook is available in the online format, providing interactive activities, instant feedback and automatic grading.

Teachers use the print version of the Teacher’s Book and also get access to course digital resources including presentation tool, teacher’s resources, assessment package or “How to Teach with Focus Second Edition” videos.

  • Student’s Book audio and video
  • Workbook audio
  • accessed via a code in the Student’s Book
  • Assessment Package (including tests for dyslexic students)
  • photocopiable resources
  • Student’s Book and Workbook audio
  • course video
  • exam mapping booklets for PTE and Cambridge exams

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Buy this book at English Book Education Bookshop;

Address:

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Language Hub https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/language-hub/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:36:35 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14375 Take the complexity out of teaching English

Language Hub is a 6-level general English course for adult learners which takes the complexity out of teaching English. At its core is a well-balanced skills syllabus with clear learning outcomes using a range of interesting topics, and a functional language strand presented through an entertaining video series.

All lessons in Language Hub are designed to build learners’ confidence in a variety of situations and producing them has never been easier. The Teacher’s Book makes lesson preparation intuitive using annotated ‘teach-off-the-page’ lessons supported by tips and ideas taken from the award-winning Macmillan Books for Teachers.

Key features

  • Language Hub is easy to use in a variety of teaching situations due to its firm pedagogic foundation, and syllabus aligned to the revised CEFR.
  • Comprehensive video content includes engaging ‘sitcom’ series providing realistic models for learners’ own language production, and additional authentic video content from The Guardian offering further input for practice.
  • The Writing lessons in the Student’s Book help learners improve their communicative writing skills and cover a range of genres aligned to the topic in each unit of the course.
  • The Student’s App offers learners quick and flexible practice when and where they need it, and also provides exposure to target language for class preparation and consolidation.
  • The Teacher’s App has a simple-to-use Classroom Presentation Kit that helps to deliver truly engaging lessons.

Student’s Book with Student’s App

The Student’s Book has a robust skills, grammar and vocabulary syllabus with clear learning outcomes aligned to the revised CEFR. The Student’s App allows learners to practice on-the-go with over 300 activities designed to offer quick and flexible practice. It also includes access to the Digital Student’s Book for face-to-face or online classes.

Workbook with Key + access to Audio

The Workbook provides additional support for the Student’s Book with activities covering the course language, vocabulary and skills. This comes with the Answer Key and access to the Student Resource Centre for the audio files. It also includes access to the Digital Workbook.

Digital Student’s Book with Student’s App and Digital Workbook

Language Hub has a well-balanced skills syllabus and includes a functional language strand with an entertaining video series. This fully digital version enables teachers to take teaching online instantly and confidently. It includes the Digital Student’s Book, Digital Workbook and access to activities through the Student’s App.

Teacher’s Book with App

The Teacher’s Book includes a flexible Teacher’s eBook to allow for on screen lesson preparation. The Teacher’s App provides everything in one place including; the Classroom Presentation Kit, audio and video resources, photocopiables, Test Generator, and access to the content of the Student’s App.

Student’s App

The Student’s App offers learners quick and flexible practice opportunities when and where they need it, and also provides exposure to target language for class preparation and consolidation. There are over 300 extra activities at each level.

Teacher’s App

The Teacher’s App helps to deliver content in a simple-to-use lesson pathway designed for easy presentation and truly engaging lessons.

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Buy this book at English Book Education Bookshop:

Address:

Tbilisi 14 Chavchvavadze Avenue; 92 Vepkhistkaosani Street, 3 m/r Didi Dighomi, Tbilisi, Georgia

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ROADMAP https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/roadmap/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:32:36 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14340

Roadmap is a new, eight-level general English course for adults that recognizes every class is different, every learner is unique.

Roadmap’s rich content and flexible organization allows teachers to personalize their lessons to give learners the specific language training they need to progress. 

Discover Roadmap

  • enable learners to make fast, measurable progress
  • personalize teaching using different routes through the course
  • develop reading, writing and listening skills with extensive practice and strategies
  • deliver successful lessons with materials that are easy to use and fun to teach
  • get students practicing out of class with the mobile app

Learning English is a journey and the final destination is the ability to speak confidently and fluently. Roadmap provides the direction you need to get your learners where they want to go

Digital tools to support students and teachers

For students

  • The mobile app gives students an opportunity to practice anytime, anywhere, with extra grammar and vocabulary exercises to consolidate language points.
  • MyEnglishLab provides online practice for students, class management for teachers and a gradebook to review performance. 

For teachers

  • The presentation tool gives teachers a fully interactive version of the Students’ Book and Workbook with integrated audio and video to use at the front of class.
  • The resources teachers can access online include full teaching notes, photocopiables, audio and video and an assessment package. 

Student’s Book

  • Ten units with three main input lessons link to three Develop your listening, reading and writing skills lessons
  • An English in Action lesson in each unit covers key functional language with video clips and worksheets
  • In each main lesson the Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation lead up to a speaking task based on GSE learning objectives
  • Audio, video, scripts, word lists available online

Workbook

  • Additional grammar, vocabulary and functional language practice activities
  • Additional reading, writing and listening practice activities
  • An answer key at the back of the book allows learners to check their answers

Teachers Components:

  • Teacher’s Book
  • Test Generator
  • Presentation Tool
  • Teacher’s Digital Resources

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Buy this book at English Book Education Bookshop:

Address:

Tbilisi 14 Chavchvavadze Avenue; 92 Vepkhistkaosani Street, 3 m/r Didi Dighomi, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Discover Speakout 2nd Edition https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/speakout-2nd-edition/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:28:34 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14328

Speakout is the English language course that includes video content from the BBC to engage students and make teaching easier.

It follows a balanced approach to topics, language development and skills work. Speaking activities are prominent, but not at the expense of the other core skills of reading, writing and listening, which are developed systematically throughout.

New design: Pearson has improved the overall design of the components and pages, refreshed the photos and illustrations, and selected dramatic images to introduce each new unit. Great images motivate learners, and provide excellent prompts for language activities.

Reading & listening texts: Pearson has broadened the range of texts to reflect the types of texts learners read outside the classroom. Listening texts are also more authentic and we’ve included a wider variety of international accents.

BBC video clips: The BBC video clips in each unit are unique to Speakout. We’ve retained the most popular clips and included some wonderful new material from the BBC to engage and motivate learners.

Pronunciation sections: Pearson has developed a stronger pronunciation syllabus with a wider range of pronunciation features.

Components

Speakout 2nd Edition delivers a fully-integrated learning package which includes MyEnglishLab, Speakout Extra, Study Booster plus a whole lot more.

Student’s Book

  • Twelve units with 90 to 120 hours of teaching material
  • Comprehensive Language Bank with detailed explanations and extra practice
  • Photo bank to expand vocabulary
  • Audio and video scripts

Workbook

  • Additional grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises to complement material in the Students’ Book
  • Additional functional language practice exercises
  • Additional reading, listening and writing practice
  • Regular review and check sections
  • Versions available with and without key
  • Audio material to practice listening, pronunciation and functional language available online

Digital components for teachers

  • Presentation Tool 
  • integrated remote lessons
  • digital resources
  • Test Generator
  • online practice

  • Extra practice in grammar, vocabulary and skills
  • Unit and achievement tests
  • Mid and end of course tests
  • BBC interviews
  • Interactive worksheets for BBC interviews

Access MyEnglishLab via the Pearson English Portal. MyEnglishLab provides a fully blended and personalized learning environment that benefits both teachers and learners.

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Buy this book at English Book Education Bookshop:

Address:

Tbilisi 14 Chavchvavadze Avenue; 92 Vepkhistkaosani Street, 3 m/r Didi Dighomi, Tbilisi, Georgia

Batumi: Brothers Zubalashvili and Baratashvili Street

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Big English https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/big-english/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:50:05 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=14191 Think big! Dream big!

Big English is the most complete package for young learners. It gives your students all they need to learn English and provides everything you need to engage your class and get great results.

Educational pillars

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

Ready-made Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) lessons help you to challenge students to be creative, think critically and collaborate. It brings the world into the classroom with up-to-date content that is relevant to student’s lives.

In-built Assessment for Learning (AfL)

AfL help you pinpoint where students need help. It’s a great way to get students more involved in the learning process to become more effective learners.

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills, embedded throughout the course, help students develop essential skills for life, such as Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Digital Literacy.

Pupil’s  book

Activities present key language in context, and include songs, stories, sticker activities, content language and values lessons to help students develop 21st Century Skills. Regular four-page checkpoints focus on Assessment for Learning and allow students to assess their own progress. Each book includes a Young Learner’s Exams preparation section.

Activity book

The Activity Book, with color photographs and illustrations, provides engaging additional practice for each lesson in the Pupil’s Book. Activity Book pages can be used on an interactive white board and in MyEnglishLab.

Teacher’s book

The Teacher’s Book provides step-by- step Lesson Plans, activities and ideas, a game bank, Pupil’s Book and Activity Book audio scripts, Activity Book answer keys, and notes for using the Young Learners’ Exams Practice Materials found in the Pupil’s Book. Assessment for Learning techniques and ideas for developing 21st Century Skills are contained in each Lesson Plan.

Learning doesn’t stop once the bell rings and class is over. The interactive, online activities in MyEnglishLab make practising English fun. Teachers can keep track and parents can get involved.

An online learning tool that perfectly partners Big English for personalised practice and assessment.

The Pearson English Portal connects teachers, learners and world-class resources, enabling you to work together, anytime and anywhere.  MyEnglishLab is now accessed via the Portal.

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