success new Elementary Teacher’s Support Book Jo Kent A01_SUCC_TB_ELEGLB_7087_TTL.indd 1 21/10/2011 09:02 Contents Introduction Course description. 3 Description of New Success components. 8 Evaluation and testing system in New Success. 11 New Success exams preparation.
14 Map of educational content – index. 16 Teaching notes Unit 1. 129 Photocopiable resources – contents. 140 A02_SUCC_TB_ELEGLB_7087_CON.indd 2 11-09-26 16:17 Introduction Welcome to New Success – the new edition of the New Success has a very strong skills syllabus and task best-selling course for upper secondary students.
This types from different exams are practised throughout introduction: the course. • describes how the course meets the needs of Special features in the New Success Workbook such students and teachers, as exam tips and self-assessment tests also help • outlines the principles on which the materials were students deal with exam tasks. developed, The tests included in the Testing and Evaluation • describes the course and its components. Programme (Test Master Multi-ROM) are designed to give students a sense of progress and achievement.
NEW SUCCESS for Students Students at this age are ‘digital natives’ who are New Success is a six-level course for upper secondary versatile in using the latest technologies in their students, taking learners from zero beginner to an everyday lives. advanced level of English competency. It is aimed at fourteen to twenty-year-old students. The age range New Success takes into account the needs of today’s has been fundamental in defining the most important students, who spend a lot of time online.
Technology features of the course. changes the way students learn and revise. They feel increasingly at ease using online learning programmes. Students at this age are at the peak of their New Success includes digital components such as cognitive development New Success ActiveBook.
This ensures that students benefit from the most up-to-date ways of learning. They learn best when they are encouraged to use discovery techniques and engage with interesting topics related to their age. In common with learners in NEW SUCCESS for Teachers all age groups, they need a lot of recycling to internalise and acquire the new grammar, vocabulary Although the course has been designed for use in state- and functional language input, but they can also deal sector schools, it is also suitable for use in private with big chunks of new material. language schools and the activities will work well with both small and large groups – of up to thirty students.
Students at this age want to learn about Lesson preparation the world The format of the units in the Students’ Book guarantees New Success has a highly educational content. It not successful lessons. Clear headings and the logical only teaches English but also provides students with sequencing of exercises ensure that New Success will be information about the culture of English-speaking very easy for you to teach \from with little preparation. countries and the world at large.
It provides interesting and engaging exercises and texts that deal The fact that the order of sections changes with citizenship issues, literature, history, geography, in every unit makes the lessons varied art, science and technology as well as the challenges and interesting of everyday life. Further support is given in the Teacher’s Support Students at this age are young adults who want Book with ideas for warm-ups, extra activities and to be independent in their learning photocopiable activities while the Workbook offers New Success promotes maturity in its approach to additional flexibility to the pattern of the unit. Extra learning through self-assessment strategies, topics material (e. Culture Shock sections) provides ideal and tasks which encourage the learner to think about material for special one-off lessons.
what they read, rather than just respond to it. The Workbook offers further exercises for homework. New Success provides everything students of English As the exercises strongly reflect themes and language need to cross the border between their school life and from the Students’ Book input, you do not need to the outside world. spend too much time explaining homework tasks to your students.
New Success is designed for learners who are at a critical point in their education. The exams they Evaluation and assessment take, whether school-leaving/university entrance Monitoring students’ progress is particularly important exams or public exams such as those of Cambridge in the light of exam preparation. Students need to be Assessment, will determine their future. confident that they can pass the relevant exams at All exams now follow Common European Framework each stage of their learning.
requirements, which means that they are skills-oriented New Success provides you with a unique testing and with a special emphasis on communication. evaluation system that includes different types of 3 A03_SUCC_TB_ELEGLB_7087_INTR.indd 3 26/10/2011 14:59 tests carefully compiled to assess students’ progress The above features make New Success a very well in a comprehensive way. The Test Master Multi-ROM balanced course which gives you security, and your which is part of the Teacher’s Support Book students a real sense of progress. DVD-ROM provides all the testing materials in an electronic version, making it easy for you to customise 1 A controlled environment for teaching and learning it to your particular classroom situation.
One of our most important aims was to publish a course where learning is very carefully monitored. Keeping up-to-date with students A problem sometimes encountered in coursebooks is New advances in technology are changing the way that of un-previewed language and grammar. It can be students learn and want to be taught. New Success frustrating for both you and the students when, for provides a number of digital solutions that will enable example, an elementary lesson on the Present Simple teachers to keep up with the latest trends in the also contains examples of the Past Simple or even classroom.
Your assurances that ‘this will be ActiveTeach is the new software for interactive covered later’ can stifle the students’ own sense of whiteboards. Teaching with an ActiveTeach is easy achievement. We have been very careful to avoid this and motivating. Teachers will no longer need in New Success.
We have carefully monitored the conventional teacher’s books as they will find a wealth language progression and have avoided using new of materials within a single environment. grammar in the skills sections. Each speaking exercise is well guided through the use of prompts and Dealing with mixed-level classes examples. The same approach has been carefully Placement tests in the Testing and Evaluation implemented throughout all the components.
Programme (Test Master Multi-ROM) help you to The second important aim was to create materials that place your students in groups according to their level, provide methodologically sound lessons on the page. and allow you to make the right choice of book from You do not need to adapt the material and no extra the six levels of New Success for your class. preparation or input is required. In other words, if you For very able students, more challenging exercises on teach from New Success, you will be very successful vocabulary (Extend your vocabulary) are included in with little effort.
These students should be encouraged 2 Student and teacher motivation to do more projects suggested in the Testing and The New Success course was designed to help you Evaluation Programme as they give students the motivate students and also be very rewarding to teach opportunity for freer language production. They will from. allow all students to contribute to the class irrespective of their abilities. Even the weakest One of the key ways of achieving this is that students can participate and enjoy a real sense of throughout the course there is a clear direction for success.
Unit objectives are clearly stated at the beginning of each unit. Lessons and tasks have carefully-prepared stages leading up to clear Principles behind the course communicative outcomes. New Success is an ELT course written specifically for The varied unit structure, the liveliness of the secondary school students. It draws from the most presentations and exercises, and the sheer interest of cutting-edge developments in ELT methodology and the texts make the material extremely engaging.
practice and is clear, accessible and novel. There is often an element of puzzle-solving which, The ten most important features of the course added to the high quality of photos, illustrations and concept are the following: audio material, will add to students’ motivation and desire to learn. • A controlled environment for teaching and learning. Most importantly, many of the presentations in New • Student and teacher motivation.
Success are amusing and thought provoking, which • An interactive approach to learning. we hope will make the material memorable, thus • Memorisation techniques. promoting acquisition and learning. You and your • An equal emphasis on skills and grammar.
students will often find yourselves smiling at a funny • A strong focus on vocabulary input and practice. cartoon or a humorous text. The topics covered are • Expanding general knowledge. usually familiar but with a fresh and interesting angle, e.
Intermediate Unit 6, ‘Animal magic’ shows how • Building cultural awareness. our favourite pets perceive their owners rather than • A principled testing and evaluation system plus the other way round. Grammar presentations, texts exam preparation. and exercises often contain an unexpected twist at • Keeping up-to-date with new trends in education the end which will surprise students and engage them by providing innovative digital solutions for both further on the road to learning.
We are sure that teachers and students. studying from New Success will be a very enjoyable experience! 4 A03_SUCC_TB_ELEGLB_7087_INTR.indd 4 26/10/2011 14:59 Introduction 3 An interactive approach to learning 3 There are references to the language students have We believe that a unique feature of New Success is already come across in the course, which are called the fact that students are much more actively involved Think Back! Students are encouraged to find the in every stage of the learning process than in other information they need in the sections of the courses. The involvement is particularly transparent Students’ Book that they have already covered. in the following sections of the book: This activates the knowledge students already have.
Grammar: the inductive approach makes the grammar presentations in New Success particularly 4 The Revision sections after every second unit help interesting and memorable. Students analyse consolidate the material in all its aspects (grammar, examples of language and arrive at the grammar rules vocabulary, pronunciation and skills). themselves: this helps them understand and 5 The material from the Students’ Book is revised and remember the rules better. consolidated in the Workbook.
Skills strategies: while other courses offer language 6 The Teacher’s Support Book provides exercises tips about skills strategies, we give students the which refer to the material covered in the previous opportunity to experience the strategy through doing unit or section (Warm-up in the Teacher’s Support exercises that illustrate them. Students can then Book). The bank of photocopiable activities helps understand the strategies boxes (Train Your Brain) to revise material in a communicative way. much better, and even help create them.
5 An equal emphasis on skills and grammar Reading and listening skills: we believe that these In keeping with current trends in language teaching, sections are developed in a very involving way. They we provide very solid skills training but at the same very often work like puzzles where students have to time, we are aware that skills cannot be practised complete the reading with the missing paragraph or without a solid base in grammar. They have therefore title, or guess the ending of the listening before they been given equal emphasis. listen to the last part of it.
The variety of exercises and their unique character motivate the students and Grammar presentation and practice help them remember the material. New Success provides a structured and thorough Speaking: as in most courses these sections include grammar syllabus which will not create unforeseen a box with the functional language highlighted. problems or surprises.