Many teachers think that just because their students are always on the internet, they’ll be happy to do any online work. This is not quite true. Teachers still need to take into account the level of challenge and the content itself. Students have high expectations of what they access online, because they’re used to incredibly engaging and interactive content. Therefore, teachers have to take a number of steps to make sure that online language learning environment motivates their students.

First of all, the content needs to be personalized and contain topics relevant to the students. Next, the environment needs to be stimulating by being challenging. The teachers also have to assess their online work on time, giving their students incentive to complete it. Finally, learners need to be trained to appreciate the value of particular online to achieve their goals.

Source: Thirau, Caroline “Blended Learning myths: busted!” Cambridge University Press, 4 April, 2017, P4

Welcome to Tiger Time!

Tiger Time is a vibrant, six-level primary course based around different settings and characters which grow and change with the students, reflecting their evolving interests and needs.

Units contain humorous stories told through different genres, which use everyday language as well as catchy songs, chants and raps at the lower levels. Within each unit lessons are carefully structured focusing first on vocabulary, grammar and skills, and building to CLIL, culture and projects, allowing children to practise and consolidate their learning throughout the unit. Each unit ends with a review, encouraging active communication.

Written with classroom management in mind, activities are practical and well-staged. The accompanying Presentation Kit and Teacher’s Resource Centre help teachers create dynamic lessons, which cater to diverse classroom situations. The Student’s Resource Centre provides a home-school connection offering extra activities and support.

Authors

Carol Read and Mark Ormerod

Source : www.macmillanenglish.com

Welcome to Grammar Goals

Grammar Goals is a new six-level grammar series for children aged 6-12 years. It presents and practises grammar in lively and meaningful age-appropriate contexts that reflect pupils’ real lives and interests. Linked to the Cambridge and Trinity external exam syllabuses, Grammar Goals offers regular exam-style practice tasks in the Pupil’s Books.

The visually appealing nature of the course ensures that grammar is presented in a child-friendly format that keeps pupils actively involved in learning the language form, function and meaning. The careful staging of the units provides three levels of challenge and success – bronze, silver and gold – helping students reflect on their progress and aim for higher goals.

Key features:

• Clearly contextualised language makes grammar pratice meaningful.
• Interactive grammar boxes break down form and clarify use.
• Carefully graded activities build confidence and accuracy.
• Cross-curricular topics link grammar to everyday life and teach pupils about the world around them.
• Activities develop young learner competences, such as thinking and interpersonal skills.  –
• A separate writing syllabus teaches key skills and strategies.
• Exam-style activities practise task types from the Cambridge English: Young Learners English tests.
• Step-by-step lesson notes with extra, mixed-ability and extension activities provide extra teacher support.

Authors:

Nicole Taylor and Michael Watts and Julie Tice and Dave Tucker and Angela Llanasand Libby Williams

Source :  www.macmillanyounglearners.com

About

Learning for life

If you don’t know Gateway already, this secondary course by teacher and author David Spencer is designed to lead teenage students to success in both international and school leaving exams. Each unit offers plenty of exam style activities and preparation tasks as well as Exam success tips.  The course is designed to prepare students for further study and future employment.

Gateway 2^nd Edition retains many of the features that made Gateway so popular.
The approach to grammar and vocabulary and the development of the four skills is carefully staged and are both teacher- and student-friendly.

Gateway 2^nd Edition also has several exciting new features!

The Flipped classroom videos bring grammar points from the Student’s Book to life and help teachers find more time in lessons and add variety to their teaching. The videos are short grammar presentations that are linked to one of each unit’s Grammar guides. Students can watch the presentation at home and complete tasks in the Online Workbook or printable worksheets on the Resource Centre. The videos are a flexible teaching tool and can also be used for revision, when students miss a class, or with the whole class in lesson-time, for variety.

At the heart of each unit there’s a special Life skills section preparing teenagers for varied aspects of life.  Each Life skills area has its own tailor-made video featuring British teenagers, demonstrating the topic and ends with students performing a Life Task; an activity that has direct relevance to the students’ lives outside the classroom.

Gateway 2^nd Edition provides material which helps to develop other areas of knowledge, as well as English language skills. It offers brand-new, up-to-date texts to motivate teachers and their students. Reading texts include Critical thinking questions to get students reflecting on what they’ve just read and personalise the topic of the text.

Find out more

Source : www.macmillangateway2.com

Speakout – The real world in your classroom!

The award-winning course that invites you and your students to discover English as it is really spoken. Speakout builds up all the skills and knowledge students need to express themselves confidently in a real English-speaking environment.
Lessons cover all four skill areas as well as grammar and vocabulary. Each unit ends with a DVD lesson based around an extract from a BBC programme which provides a springboard for meaningful speaking and writing tasks.

Models of authentic English are also provided through ‘on the street’ interviews filmed by the BBC. MyEnglishLab is a flexible online tool that enriches learning, informs teaching and enhances your Speakout course ,Enriched Learning MyEnglishLab has a wide range of activities that are instantly graded and correlated to your Speakout course,Informed Teaching MyEnglishLab for Speakout gives teachers instant access to a range of invaluable diagnostic tools ,Flexible Solutions You can assign tasks to the whole class, groups of students, or individual students to help them reach their goals more effectively.

ActiveBook is the Students’ book in digital format with integrated audio and video from the course and includes: Easy navigation of the Students’ Book pages with zoom facility ,Video and audio available at the touch of a button Video Podcasts with accompanying worksheets,BBC programme clips that can be played in a DVD player or computer.

Authors : Frances Eales, JJ Wilson, Antonia Clare, Steve Oakes.

Read More : http://product.pearsonelt.com/speakout1e/#speakout

Source : www.pearsonelt.com

Open Mind opens doors

Open Mind allows teachers and students to enjoy the best combination of digital and print material. This flexible new course combines language development with the crucial skills students need to be effective and adaptable for work and study.
Open Mind is a ground-breaking adult course that provides learners with the professional, academic and personal skills they need. Not only are language skills developed in the course, but also the important 21st-century skills that students need in order to have a better awareness of self and society, to handle the demands of their study and learning and to deal with challenges in their work and career.

The course offers a flexible combination of materials to ensure that students are learning from a variety of sources: content-rich reading texts, speaking and writing workshops, high-quality video, self-study Online Workbooks, and projectable Student’s Books. The series now comes with new Digital Student’s Books, optimised for tablets, for a smart and versatile learning environment.

Authors

Mickey Rogers and Joanne Taylore-Knowles and Steve Taylore-Knowles and Ingrid Wisniewska and Dorothy Zemach

Read More : www.macmillanopenmind.com/about

Source : www.macmillanenglish.com

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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*

In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When her identity was discovered, Malala began to appear in both Pakistani and international media, advocating the freedom to pursue education for all.

In October 2012, gunmen boarded Malala’s school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. Remarkably, Malala survived the shooting. At a very young age, Malala Yousafzai has become a worldwide symbol of courage and hope. Her shooting has sparked a wave of solidarity across Pakistan, not to mention globally, for the right to education, freedom from terror and female emancipation.

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What does it mean?

Be patient. Eventually something good will happen to you.

Where does it come from?

The related phrase all things come to those who wait was used by Violet Fane in 1892.