Engage teenagers intellectually and emotionally. It’s their world, keep it upbeat! Time to turn up the tempo and get your classes beating to a new rhythm. Students feel they are tapping into the future as they explore topics that reflect their lives and resonate with reality.
The Students’ Book is lively, colourful and easy-to-use. Specifically designed to reflect the lives and experiences of modern teenagers, the Upbeat Students’ Book aims to engage students both emotionally and intellectually. Each unit is divided into four lessons A, B, C and D. Each A, B, and C lesson presents and practises a mix of grammar, vocabulary and functional language. Lesson D is focussed on skills development. It consolidates and extends the language presented in the preceding three lessons and provides further reading, listening, speaking and writing practice.
The Teacher's Book contains step-by-step teaching notes arranged around reduced-size Students' Book pages. In addition to the teaching notes, there are boxed Answer keys 'or the Students' Book exercises where relevant, and Background notes for cultural or linguistic points. Suggestions for optional extra activities and further work are also included.
Teenagers are bright, energetic and upbeat. They live in an exciting world where they are constantly exposed to sounds and visual imagery, surrounded by technology which they use with ease. At the same time teenagers' lives can be complicated as they face difficult life changes and complex moral issues for the first time. Upbeat aims to stimulate students' interest through exciting teen topics and problem-solving activities, addressing more serious social themes. By engaging teens both emotionally and intellectually, this new secondary course offers students a positive and stimulating learning experience.
The Students' Multi-ROM is a self-access resource for each student to use on a computer either at home or in school. It is an amusing and motivating way to practise language and may be especially useful for those students with learning differences. It contains 12 units to practise the material in the corresponding 12 Students' Book units. In each unit, there are exercises covering Grammar, Vocabulary and Use your English. Each unit finishes with two Review exercises, revising the key grammar and vocabulary content of the unit. The Students' Multi-ROM also contains video extracts, with accompanying exercises, and the audio material for the Language Builder.
