Gateway B2+class Cds(2) (Upper-Intermediate+)

Description: Gateway is a new academically-rich five-level (elementary to advanced) course designed to lead teenage students to success in school-leaving and university entrance exams, and prepare them for university and the world of work.

The course stimulates the interest of students and teachers by providing cross-curricular and intercultural content that is genuinely interesting, meaningful and thought-provoking.

Gateway takes an inductive approach to grammar and revises and extends the students’ active knowledge of grammar and vocabulary through a wealth of varied skills-based activities that recycle, revise, evaluate and develop language skills.

Key Features
• The Student’s Book provides 90–120 hours of teaching material within 10 units.
* Each unit has ten pages, followed by two pages of ‘Language reference and revision’
* After every 2 units, there is a two-page ‘Gateway to exams’ Section that revises and practises the exam techniques presented in the preceding units
* CLICK (Cross-curricular, Literature and International Cultural Knowledge) lessons develop students’ language through real contexts
*‘Study skills’ and ‘Exam success’ pages at the back of the book
* A list of irregular verbs, unit-by-unit word lists and Spelling and Pronunciation guides are also included
* ‘Speaking and Writing’ banks for students doing speaking and writing tasks
• The Workbook offers exercises which can be done in class or as self-study.
*It also provides activities for mixed-ability classes.
*There are ‘Revision’ units and ‘Can Do’ Progress checks after every 2 units and one-page ‘Progress tests’
*The Gateway Dictionary includes entries from the Macmillan Dictionaries
• The Teacher’s Book provides:
* Explanatory language notes
* Teacher development sections
* Advice on planning
* Management of activities
* Ideas for developing learning strategies
* Exam preparation
* Cultural background information
* Supplementary activities for mixed-ability classes
* Answer keys and audioscripts
* The Teacher’s resource materials at the back of the Teacher’s Book contain thirty photocopiable worksheets designed to support and complement the material
*A free Test CD with end-of-unit tests, mid-year tests and end-of-year test
• Gateway Online for Students and Teachers: these two sites constitute a dynamic space for students and teachers using Gateway. For students, it offers additional language practice through games, videos and interactive activities, writing models and activities which help students prepare for exam writing tasks, a wordlist builder and a Macmillan Reader eBook. For teachers, it offers training footage of Gateway in use, regularly updated teaching tips written by specialist teachers, downloadable resources to use in the classroom and the possibility to join the Gateway Community to interact with other teachers using the series
• Gateway Interactive Classroom offers a digital version of the Student’s Book, including extra activities integrated audio, video resources and a teacher’s area for material creation
• Audio CDs"