Focus 2nd Ed. 2 Student Book+online Practice

Focus Second Edition is an even richer version of the best-selling English language learning series for upper secondary students. The new course retains the best of the first edition – a unique vocabulary building program and the 3Ms methodology. It enhances this with BBC video content and more thorough Use of English preparation, to offer everything teachers and students need to achieve success, in and out of the classroom.
With Focus Second Edition students will be motivated and engaged by the authentic content; they will be strong in all language and life skills, and prepared well for achieving great exam results.

Responding to students’ and teachers’ needs
Focus Second Edition retains what students and teachers highly valued in the first edition, and enhances it with authentic video content, including BBC videos and Focus vlogs.

This valuable, up-to-date content, along with plenty of new ideas and improvements, make the new edition a perfect fit for today’s teenagers and their busy teachers.

What's new
Thanks to feedback received from Focus users worldwide the course now offers everything teachers asked for, and that today’s students need to achieve true success, whether in their exams, or in their future academic, professional and social lives.

New authentic BBC videos: 41 new, natural-language videos accompanied by video worksheets
New Focus Grammar Vlog videos: 32 new grammar vlogs with corresponding worksheets
New vocabulary and reading lessons: up-to-date content with themes and topics students will be interested in
More Use of English: extended opportunities for Use of English practice across all components
More writing practice: extended writing section for more contextualized and thorough practice
More speaking and personalization activities: clearly signposted personalized speaking activities for more targeted practice
More listening practice: more audio recordings provide increased opportunities to practice listening comprehension and receptive skills


Components:
Student components:
Student's Online Practice (interactive Workbook)
core content of the course, used with a teacher in class
Online Practice & extra digital activities and resources:
Interactive Workbook with instant feedback and automatic grading
personal gradebook for students to review their performance
extra grammar and vocabulary checkpoint activities
Reading, Listening and Use of English banks of exercises and texts
all audio and video resources

Student’s eBook
a digital version of the Student’s Book with audio and video at the point of use
a user-friendly navigation
• Workbook
• additional grammar, vocabulary and skills practice to reinforce material in the Student’s Book
• used for homework or self-study

Pearson Practice English App
Student’s Book audio and video
• Workbook audio
• accessed via a code in the Student’s Book
• Teacher components
• Teacher's Book
• Student’s Book pages with overprinted answers
• ideas for extra activities
• references to additional materials
• Student’s Book audio and video scripts
• Workbook audio script
• Workbook answer key
• 45 photocopiable resources
• culture notes
• ideas for debate lessons
• extra activities for the grammar videos
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• Test Generator
Available on the Pearson English Portal. Access code in the Teacher’s Book
The new Test Generator enables teachers to generate a test based on the content from the assessment package that comes with Focus Second Edition.
• different tests for each student with randomized questions
• tests available online and in PDF, for printing out and using in class
• automatic notifications to students of new tests
• online tests automatically graded with students' results in gradebook
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• Class CD
• Pearson English Teacher’s Portal
• core content of the course used with the teacher, in class

• Pearson English Portal
Presentation tool that can be used on and offline.
Teacher's resources including:
• Assessment Package (including tests for dyslexic students)
• photocopiable resources
• Student’s Book and Workbook audio
• course video
• exam mapping booklets for PTE and Cambridge exams
• GSE mapping booklets
• wordlists
• lesson plans
• answer keys
• teaching with Focus Second Edition videos
Teacher’s view of all students’ resources:
• Online Practice (Interactive Workbook)
• extra digital activities and resources
• The Student’s app
Accessed via a code in the Teacher's Book.