Openmind 2nd Ed. 1 Student'S Book Pack 1a (Am. En)(A2)

Description:
The openMind 2nd edition Student's Book Pack A contains a split edition of the print Student's Book covering units 1-6. Each unit incorporates the course theme of Life Skills, along with Grammar sections, Support boxes and a writing syllabus. A DVD with video is included and a webcode providing access to the Student's Resource Center where video worksheets and audio are available.

Key Features
- Print Student’s Book with engaging activities
- This Split edition contains Units 1-6
- Clear, vibrant and visual unit openers
- Revised Grammar sections with a step-by-step structure to make understanding easier
- Independent Learning boxes such as ‘Notice!’, ‘How are you doing?’ and ‘Reflect’
- Each unit follows the course theme of Life Skills
- Webcode included – providing access to the Student’s Resource Center
- The Student’s Resource Center contains extra downloadable video worksheets and Class audio MP3
- Accompanying DVD with video

Mind Series:
Available across 6 levels at CEFR A1 – C1, the Mind series provides students and teachers with a huge range of digital and print components, and its communicative inductive approach gives students the language and life skills they need to succeed in the real world. Open Mind for British English learners is also available.

The Life Skills strand that runs through the course helps learners become well-rounded individuals as well as confident speakers of English.
Mind series targets students’ language at the same time as providing them with the professional, academic, and personal skills they require for allaround success. Whether it’s for employability, or for study or their personal lives, the Mind series delivers it all in an easy-to-use, engaging package with a range of options for teachers and students.
Vibrant, well-rounded and engaging, the course is packed with high-quality video material, strong visuals and topics that really get students talking.

Key features
- Integrated and flexible online components give users access to everything they need in one place. A NEW Digital Student’s Book provides online and offline options, is fully optimized
for tablets, and offers a page-faithful version of the course with lots of additional features. The Online Workbooks provide practice-at-home with a gradebook and hundreds of activities to
help improve learners’ skills and language. The Presentation Kit is an interactive version of the Student’s Book for IWBs, designed to engage students and teachers with its interactive, heads-up
delivery options. Student’s and Teacher’s Resource Centers, containing downloadable audio and video and lots more material, add to the range of dynamic components.
- Life Skills are a core feature of the syllabus, with the different skills organized into three key domains: Work and Career, to support students in employability, Study and Learning for their academic lives, and Self and Society for their social and interpersonal skills.
- A strong focus on functional language helps learners with their fluency and speaking skills.
- Grammar sections are straightforward to teach and learn from, with inductive learning at the heart, and a strong focus on meaning, form, and function.
- An additional grammar reference section provides clear grammar explanations and exercises.
- Extensive testing options with editable versions of tests are available for unit, mid-year, and end-of-year assessment. There is also a Test Generator for creating customized tests.
- Speaking and Writing workshops offer self- and peer-assessment features are available in the Resource Centers for openMind and in the Student’s Books for masterMind.
- Authentic video content and video worksheets are available as extra practice activities on the Resource Centers.

Open your mind to a wealth of integrated and flexible online components
The Mind series components are packaged to provide the best combinations of print and digital – a truly flexible solution to ensure every classroom and self-study homework is covered.
Teachers and students alike will enjoy working with the fresh and rich online material, which also helps free up teachers’ time, allowing them to focus classroom time on the communicative aspects of their students’ learning, and providing the best balance between preparation, teaching and marking.

Online Workbook:
Available as part of the Student’s Book Premium Pack, Teacher’s Book Premium Pack or as a stand-alone component, the Online Workbook provides interactive workbook activities that support the Student’s Book material and provide instant feedback. An integrated gradebook captures the scores and can also be viewed by the teacher, who can create classes to see reports and data on their students’ progress and performance.

Resource Centers for students and teachers:
Accessible through the Student’s Book Pack, the Student’s Book Premium Pack and the Teacher’s Book Premium Pack, the Student’s Resource Center includes the Class and Workbook audio. High-quality video, matched to themes and language areas in the Student’s Book, is also available online with downloadable video worksheets, along with resources such as CEFR checklists, wordlists, and audio scripts.
The Teacher’s Resource Center also includes downloadable class and workbook audio, online videos and video worksheets with extensive teacher’s notes, additional life skills lessons, CEFR checklists and Speaking and Writing Workshops. Teachers can access a wide variety of testing materials in PDF and editable Word formats. There is also access to a Test Generator, allowing customization of tests. Teachers also receive all the resources in the Student’s Resource Center, helping them to plan lessons more effectively.

Including:
• Online Workbook and the related automatic gradebooks for students with full teacher access, and accessible on any device that can view the internet, including mobile devices
• NEW Digital Student’s Book is tablet-optimized and offers a page-faithful version of the coursebook with interactive exercises and a markbook.
• high-quality video matched to the Student’s Book themes and language areas
• full support for testing through the Test Generator found in the Teacher’s Resource Center
• additional lessons and activities all linked to the themes of the course

Digital Student’s Book:
A page-faithful version of the coursebook with interactive exercises and available online or offline, the Digital Student’s Book also includes a marking function, where students’ scores feed into their gradebook, which shows their results. With zoom annotation and other text tool features, the classroom experience is enhanced for both learners and teachers. Teachers’ access to the Digital Student’s Book allows them to create and manage classes, message groups or individuals and keep an eye on students’ progress throughout the course.

Presentation Kit:
Included with the Teacher’s Book Premium Pack, the Presentation Kit offers a page-faithful digital version of the Student’s Book with embedded audio, video, pop-up answers, and interactive tools. This makes it perfect as a class presentation tool and ideal for heads-up teaching. It can be used through an Interactive Whiteboard or on a laptop with a projector.