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Number of levels: Starter + 5 CEF Levels: A1–C1 |
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American Big Picture reflects the key issues of today which are immediately relevant to the learners’ experiences with striking real world images.
These images provide a fresh, contemporary look and are at the centre of tasks, encouraging learners to work with and interpret them. Carefully structured discussion tasks encourage personalization, localization, and critical thinking, and complete functional language lessons, develop conversation strategies and are applied to students’ immediate world experience.
Key Features
• Up-to-date, real-life, relevant contexts ground tasks and content in student’s own world, allowing them to personalize and
localize material. Carefully selected reading and listening material graded to the level
• Language focus on real, useful language and high-frequency expressions, and is text, topic, and context driven
• Functional Language and Final Task sections bring together the smaller pieces to help students see “American Big Picture” via
practical, real-life tasks
• A strong, systematic vocabulary building strand focuses on both lexical fields and vocabulary systems
• Notice boxes draw attention to generative patterns and the living / changing nature of language
• Avoidance / challenging of stereotypes – intercultural awareness foregrounded, e.g. inclusion of situations where no native
speakers are present (as model for tasks)
• A move away from traditional UK and USA settings to more global contexts
• An emphasis on “global English”, with a wide variety of non-native and non-standard accents in the audio program
• Up-to-date, real-life, relevant contexts ground tasks and content in student’s own world, allowing them to personalize and localize material. Carefully selected reading and listening material graded to the level
• Language focus on real, useful language and high-frequency expressions, and is text, topic, and context driven
• Functional Language and Final Task sections bring together the smaller pieces to help students see “American Big Picture” via practical, real-life tasks
• A strong, systematic vocabulary building strand focuses on both lexical fields and vocabulary systems
• Notice boxes draw attention to generative patterns and the living / changing nature of language
• Avoidance / challenging of stereotypes – intercultural awareness foregrounded, e.g. inclusion of situations where no native speakers are present (as model for tasks)
• A move away from traditional UK and USA settings to more global contexts
• An emphasis on “global English”, with a wide variety of non-native and non-standard accents in the audio program
Components
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Teachers |
| • Student’s Book Try a sample • Workbook with audio CD Try a Sample • Downloadable audio online • Interactive online activities |
• Teacher’s book • Class Audio CD • Digital Book • Test Studio • Online videos and author interviews • Teacher’s Resource Book • DVD • Learning Platform www.americanbigpicture.net |
