Amazing English 1 Grammar Book

AMAZING ENGLISH 1 GRAMMAR BOOK (A1) (AMAZING ENGLISH) Amazing English Grammar Amazing English Grammar is a new four-level series of beautifully illustrated grammar reference and practice books, taking students from Senior A to Senior D class. Each level is of a manageable length and can be completed in one academic year. Thanks to its thoroughly researched syllabus, Amazing English Grammar can be used alongside any Senior A-D course. Amazing English Grammar contains: • an introductory unit containing two lessons, and six main units containing five lessons. • amusing grammar presentations featuring The Amazing Kids: Rocky, Dash, Feather and Cat. • clear, simple grammar theory. • a wide variety of practice exercises. • speaking tasks to encourage students to use the grammar productively in contextualised situations. • regular reviews consolidating the grammar learnt in the preceding two units. • writing tasks to allow students to use the grammar productively in contextualised situations. • a list of irregular verbs. Amazing English is an exciting new four-level course Each level has 30 lessons, within six topic-related units, is of a manageable length and can be completed in one school year. Amazing English for the Student • Student’s Book • Workbook • e-book • Grammar Book • Test Book • Companion Amazing English for the Teacher • Teacher’s Book • Class Audio CD • Interactive Whiteboard Software • Teacher’s editions of Student’s Book, Workbook, Grammar Book, Companion and Test Book Amazing English IWB The Amazing English advanced technology IWB software combines all the components of this course into one amazing interactive tool to help teachers bring their lessons to life in the classroom. Amazing English 1 Interactive Whiteboard Software contains: • the interactive Student’s Book page-for-page, including the animated story episodes. • the interactive Activity Book, which includes all of the Activity Book exercises in fully interactive format. • the interactive grammar with fully animated presentations. • all the songs and videos. • interactive games to be played in class and at the end of each unit if time permits. Amazing English e-book Amazing English e-book is a complete digital version of Amazing English Student’s Book. The Amazing English e-book for students uses advanced technology interactive software to combine all the components of this course into one amazing interactive tool to help students consolidate and revise the lessons done in class. Amazing English 1 Student’s Book Each unit of the Student’s Book includes five, two-page lessons that are designed to be simple to use and easy to teach. They include lessons about amazing people, places and things, as well as lessons that focus specifically on students’ listening, speaking and writing skills. These lessons are followed by a review of the vocabulary and grammar that has been presented as well as a theme-related song, which students will enjoy listening to and singing. Within each unit, there is also a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and Culture section. The CLIL parts focus on learning about another subject such as maths, geography or history in English. The Culture parts of the units focus on different aspects of life in the UK and other English-speaking countries, often encouraging students to compare them to their own country. Each CLIL and Culture section is linked to the theme of the unit and comprises fun and communicative activities involving pair or group work. This section also has a Now take it home! feature which encourages students to tell their parents what they’ve been doing or learning about in class. Each unit ends with a fully-illustrated episode of our exciting ongoing story. Using language from the same or previous units, each twopage spread will capture students’ interest and motivate them to read in English and use the language they have learnt. The comic story is brought to life in full animation in the Student’s e-book. There are also values, pronunciation and video features in each unit which ensure that students are exposed to all aspects of language learning as well as encouraging them to connect their learning experience to the real world. Amazing English Workbook The Workbook follows up, lesson by lesson, on the vocabulary and grammar taught in the Student’s Book and also provides further reading and writing practice. Its clear and simple format means that it can be used by students at home as well as in class. Amazing English Workbook contains: • an introductory unit. • six theme-related units, in which lessons 1-4 practise the vocabulary and grammar from the corresponding lesson in the Student’s Book while the skills-building lesson provides grammar practice as well as further reading and writing practice. • six reviews, providing further consolidation of the vocabulary and grammar. Amazing English Test Book Through a comprehensive set of tests, the Test Book assesses students’ progress at various stages of the course. Amazing English Test Book contains: • six quizzes that focus on the key vocabulary and grammar from the six units of the Student’s Book. • three progress tests, one for use after every two units of the Student’s Book, that include reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar tasks and a writing task. • an end-of-year test covering reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar tasks and a choice of writing tasks. • score sheets, where students’ test results and comments can be recorded. Amazing English Teacher’s Book The Teacher’s Book provides everything the teacher needs to make best use of the material in the Student’s Book. Amazing English Teacher’s Book contains: • clear lesson plans with detailed instructions and the key to all tasks from the Student’s Book. • background information on some of the reading texts, amazing facts and other texts that refer to real things. • suggestions for extension activities and teaching tips. • the recording script with justifications underlined for the listening tasks included in the Student’s Book. • photocopiable tasks for use with students who finish early in class, as a way of revising prior to a test, or as extra practice of the vocabulary and grammar in the Student’s Book. • photocopiable songsheets for the songs which appear in each unit of the Student’s Book. • photocopiable worksheets for each episode of the ongoing story, The Amazing Kids. • the keys for the Workbook and Test Book. Amazing English Companion Amazing English Companion accompanies the Student’s Book. Lesson by lesson, it covers the vocabulary and grammar presented in the Student’s Book and makes an ideal study aid. Amazing English Companion contains: • all new vocabulary appearing in the Student’s Book. • topic-related example sentences. • derivatives appropriate to the language level. • notes on usage, synonyms and antonyms. • vocabulary and grammar tasks practising the main vocabulary and grammar content. At the back of the Companion, there is an irregular verbs list and an alphabetical word list containing all the words and phrases in the Companion along with their entry numbers.