stretch starter - student book with online practice (2nd edition)

Stretch Starter - Student Book With Online Practice (2nd Edition)

Stretch Your Skill Set: Expand your students’ ability to express themselves in English with dedicated presenting skills and presenting practice lessons.

- Develop students’ presenting skills. NEW Step by step activities help students prepare and deliver spoken presentations. Full Presenting Practice lessons and shorter Quick Presentation tasks enable a flexible approach that accommodates varying student needs and available classroom hours.

- Provide relatable examples. NEW presentation videos and social media videos feature non-native and native English speakers and offer models for students to emulate in their own presentations and video creation tasks.

- Foster a supportive classroom. NEW Feedback and Reflect activities encourage students to learn from each other, to make constructive suggestions & to reflect on how they can develop their own presentation skills further.

Stretch Your Fluency: Provide clear steps to communicative success through structured speaking tasks.

- Guide students to greater fluency. Communication and Useful Language boxes and pronunciation exercises in every Speaking lesson provide a step-by-step approach. Example dialogues with relatable situations from everyday life act as models for students’ own conversations.

- Build communicative competence. Reinforce new vocabulary and activate students’ existing grammar knowledge through speaking tasks in the Grammar Talk sections.

- Spark conversations. NEW Reading & Speaking lessons provide structured speaking activities that help students respond to the themes & topics in reading texts.

Stretch Your Horizons: Inspire students with relevant, motivating course content

- Bring the outside world into the classroom. Documentary & social media videos from around the globe capture students’ imaginations & get them talking.

- Introduce the global skills that support success. Dedicated Understanding Video and Video & Global Skills lessons every other unit and clearly signposted Global Skills boxes throughout the course make teaching these valuable competences simple.

- Build your students’ confidence. I Can statements on every page help students to reflect on their progress and encourage a sense of achievement.