New Challenges Starter Teacher's Book

Students build confidence, creativity and performance with New Challenges, helping them to grow and develop social awareness. Learners will enjoy lessons that are educational and fun and present a challenge that is achievable. The author team of this proven course have selected themes that inspire, motivate and promote positive values. Students acquire language skills in a systematic way and become independent learners who are better citizens of the world.

Meet the challenge with ActiveTeach - for resources and in-class presentation. Students step up to the challenge with ActiveBook - the student book in digital format with audio.

New Challenges combines the best of the authors' distinctive topic-based approach with a lighter touch appropriate to the age group.

• Highly respected authors of bestselling Challenges series, Michael Harris, David Mower and Anna Sikorzynska
• Strong thematic content educates and motivates.
• Stories promote positive values with characters that provide positive role models
• Clear and explicit grammar and lexical syllabuses together with an approach which actively develops students' spoken and written language with WORD BUILDERS and SENTENCE BUILDERS
• LANGUAGE AND SKILLS are recycled in an extended productive activity at the end of each module, with further opportunities for more creative writing or project work
• REVIEWS at the end of every second module have a diagnostic element; students listen and check their own answers and are guided to further practice of their weak areas
• Systematic learner development strand helps students communicate and interact as well as become independent learners
• Cross-cultural input integrated in main lesson promotes intellectual awareness
• Syllabuses take account of the Council of Europe's Framework of reference for modern languages.
• Levels 1 and 2 correspond to ESOL's KET exam. Levels 3 and 4 correspond to ESOL's PET exam.
• Manageable in one academic year