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By focusing on building up key language skills and finding ways to engage and motivate students, Text: Building skills in English offers you a wide range of relevant and engaging materials to help you deliver compelling lessons. Take a look at some sample pages and activities below and order your copies here|!

Introductory Guide

Download the Introductory Guide| (launches as a pdf) to see how Text: Building skills in English can work for you.

Try our LiveText demo

LiveText| is a software package specially designed to personalise learning. It consists of the complete Student Book in electronic format for front of class teaching, with additional assets and resources to support your lessons.

Try our LiveText demo |now and experience some of the features that have proved so popular with teachers and pupils.

Just follow the Quickstart instructions on screen and see how simple and easy it is to use!

Please note: This online version may take a couple of minutes to load and may run slowly. The actual LiveText CD-ROM product runs at normal speed.

 

LiveText screenshot|

Free LiveText activites

Try these activities from LiveText out with your class:  

  

Sample pages 

Sample Assessment Guidelines from Teacher Guide 1

The Castle with a Secret: Assessment Guidelines (editable) (DOC, 38 KB)
The Castle with a Secret: Assessment Guidelines (PDF, 25 KB)

Sample Lesson Plans from Teacher Guide 1

Use these with the accompanying Student Sheets and Student Book sample pages.
Arguing a Case: Lesson Plan (editable) (DOC, 36 KB)
Arguing a Case: Lesson Plan (PDF, 19 KB)
Features of Gothic Stories: Lesson Plan (editable) (DOC, 40 KB)
Features of Gothic Stories: Lesson Plan (PDF, 22 KB)
The Castle with a Secret: Lesson Plan (editable) (DOC, 37 KB)
The Castle with a Secret: Lesson Plan (PDF, 19 KB)

Sample pages from Student Book 1

Features of Gothic Stories (PDF, 642 KB)
Setting and Atmosphere (PDF, 958 KB)
The Castle with a Secret - Assessment Task (PDF, 149 KB)

Sample Student Activity Sheets from Teacher Guide 1

Features of Gothic Stories: Student Activity Sheets (DOC, 51 KB)
Features of Gothic Stories: Student Activity Sheets (editable) (DOC, 51 KB)
Sharpen your skills: Apostrophes - Student Activity Sheets (editable) (DOC, 34 KB)
Sharpen your skills: Apostrophes - Student Activity Sheets (PDF, 15 KB)

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