margarita hanschmidt, helje kaskel, mikael davies et al varied and challenging wide variety of...

Margarita Hanschmidt, Helje Kaskel,Mikael Davies et al

Varied and challenging Wide variety of themes Cultural information Exam help Balanced development of all language skills

A wide range of interesting topics with subtopics

Grammar + Refresh exercises Writing skills Extracts from modern English literature Culture tips Humorous listening and reading texts Nice photos and illustrations New toolboxes Songs and poems Personal CD-ROM

Balanced development of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills

Much attention to vocabulary, reading comprehension, pronunciation, intonation, spelling

A separate grammar section and a dictionary Project-based learning Much pair work and group work Cultural advice on how to behave in English

speaking countries

CD/CD-ROM with material for individual work For listening

main texts Grammar practice Vocabulary exercises Text-related tasks and exercises Listening practice Refresh tasks

INTRO KEY TEXTS

COMPREHENSION(READING, LISTENING)

TALKING,ELABORATION

Working with words

FreehandWrite on

Listening

Pronunciation

Culture tipsProjects

In addition: translation exercises, idioms, learning skills (Tool boxes), read on texts, crosswords.

In Touch 1: Guessing the meaning; Guessing what the text is about; Explaining words; Grouping; Using a dictionary; Jogging your memory

In Touch 2: Scanning, skimming; Elaboration; Inferring; Summarizing; Taking notes; Peer teaching; Selecting words to remember

In Touch 3: Tuning into the text; Set expressions; Making it personal; Activating prior knowledge; Pre-taught vocabulary; Semantic mapping

In Touch 4: Listing the main points; Making a mind map; Listing questions; Story grammar; Linguistic clues

In Touch 3In Touch 3◦ 1 Dreams (future choices, dilemmas, conflicts)◦ 2 A class of your own (different school systems, problems,

cheating, exhange students, relationships, difficult people)◦ 3 My brilliant career (job satisfaction, summer jobs, odd

jobs, how to start a company, pitfalls, elevator speeches, first aid)

◦ 4 Celebrating creativity and Christmas (benefits, keys, Estonian culture, ideal teacher, traditions)

In Touch 4In Touch 4◦ 1 Open House (town v. countryside, flat-hunting, classifieds,

unemployment, homeless people, Estonian architecture)◦ 2 Rest and Recreation (services, shopping, shopaholics,

eating, vegetarianism, cultural differences, generation differences)

◦ 3 Opposites attract (love, marriage, children, cohabitation, gender equality, values, virtues, vices, moral compass)

◦ 4 Do the right thing (honesty, multicultural diversity, netiquette, crime & punishment, politics, football hooligans, safe environment)

Each unit: aims and lesson plans Additional material: role plays, vocabulary

development, pronunciation practice, games and quizzes (incl. transparencies)

A key to all exercises Suggestions regarding language portfolios Transcripts CD includes listening material from the

textbook

vocabulary and grammar tests reading comprehension writing tasks speaking tasks includes a key

In Touch 1 & 2 for form 10In Touch 3 & 4 for form 11

In 2010In Touch 5 & 6 for form 12

Web environment - downloadable online materials:

testsadditional materialstips and adviceupdates