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