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Impact helps teenage learners (Lower Secondary) to better understand themselves, each other, and the world they live in.

By encouraging self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while learning English!

• National Geographic Explorers are featured as role models who embody the 21st century skills and values teenagers need to become successful global citizens.
• Cross-curricular topics engage learners with stimulating information about the world, better preparing the for future academic success.
• Student choice activities and projects present learners with options for language practice, allowing teens to become active participants in the learning process.

Impact helps teenage learners (Lower Secondary) to better understand themselves, each other, and the world they live in.

By encouraging self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while learning English!

• National Geographic Explorers are featured as role models who embody the 21st century skills and values teenagers need to become successful global citizens.
• Cross-curricular topics engage learners with stimulating information about the world, better preparing the for future academic success.
• Student choice activities and projects present learners with options for language practice, allowing teens to become active participants in the learning process.

Welcome to the second edition of Life. It’s been a fantastic experience to use the feedback we’ve collected from teachers and learners from around the world to revisit the first edition and build on its strengths. There are three things that a second edition gives an opportunity for: to bring in fresh content; to adjust existing content to ensure it delivers a book’s underlying methodological principles; and to refine and improve exercises according to user feedback.

'Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.' The words of Scott Jurek, a dominant force - and darling - in the gruelling and growing sport of ultrarunning for more than a decade. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead in the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile jaunt over the Gold Rush trails of America's Sierra Nevada. He went on to win that race seven years in a row. Jurek was also one of the elite runners who travelled to Mexico to run with the Tarahumara Indians, as profiled in the international bestseller Born to Run. His accomplishments are nothing short of extraordinary. In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as an elite athlete, and about the vegan diet that is key to his succe