Richmond

American Big Picture

AUTHORS: Ben Goldstein • Ceri Jones • Bess Bradfield • Carol Lethaby • Alastair Lane • Simon Brewster • Mark Lloyd • Rob Metcalf • Lucy Norris

Number of levels: Starter + 5 CEF Levels: A1–C1

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

Students		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

Published in Young Adults / Adults

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Thumbs Up!

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Thumbs Up! is a six-level primary series that motivates children to learn English while developing other areas of knowledge. Every child is an individual with unique abilities and strengths, and Thumbs Up! helps students discover their own pathway to learning.
Through cross-curricular themes, stories, songs, poems, games, values and multiple intelligence activities, Thumbs Up! fosters students’ critical thinking skills, creativity and natural curiosity in other subjects of the curriculum.

Components

Students


Try a sample	Try a sample	Try a sample

Teachers

Key Features

• Emergent grammar in a spiral program: students discover grammar

rules at their own pace over several presentations

• Cross-curricular spreads with hands-on projects where the focus is on

meaning and not on form, as per first-language acquisition

• A structured reading skills program with original stories, a comprehensive

phonics and spelling program, and a six-level writing program

• A values program, featuring the Thumbs Up Gang comic strip

• Assessments, worksheets, templates, flashcards, word cards and

vocabulary lists

• Practice on every page

• Emergent grammar in a spiral program: students discover grammar rules at their own pace over several presentations

• Cross-curricular spreads with hands-on projects where the focus is on meaning and not on form, as per first-language acquisition

• A structured reading skills program with original stories, a comprehensive phonics and spelling program, and a six-level writing program

• A values program, featuring the Thumbs Up Gang comic strip

• Assessments, worksheets, templates, flashcards, word cards and vocabulary lists

• Practice on every page

List of ISBNs

Scope & Sequence Level 1		Scope & Sequence Level 4
Scope & Sequence Level 2		Scope & Sequence Level 5
Scope & Sequence Level 3		Scope & Sequence Level 6

Published in Primary

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Readers

Published in American English Catalog

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Handbooks

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A series of practical guides to some of the key issues in English language teaching today.

Key Features

Practical, realistic suggestions for the language classroom
Jargon-free explanations of theory and methodology
Developmental tasks for the teacher
Consideration of everyday problems teachers face in the foreign language classroom
Photocopiable activity worksheets
Provision for diversity of classroom teaching situations
Current educational methodologies and reforms

Published in Handbooks

Spotlight

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Spotlight on English is a comprehensive, standards-based program for English language learners (ELLs) designed to help K-6 students gain and develop English language proficiency, access grade-level content and successfully transition to the mainstream classroom.

Spotlight on English exposes students to grade-level Academic English and models of Standard English and provides educators with the tools necessary to empower ELLs to acquire the English language accurately and achieve competency in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Spotlight on English is a balanced program that not only provides the academic language students need, it also brings together proven methodologies and innovative teaching strategies.

Key Features

Based on scientific research
Aligned to state ELA/ELD and the National Curriculum and Content-area Standards
Created with a content-rich framework—language arts, math, science, social studies, music, and art
Developed with multi-level teaching strategies for differentiated instruction in every lesson
Designed to deliver direct, structured, and inclusive language instructionFrom

Published in CLIL

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English Language Teaching Catalog 2010 - 2011

Published in Catalogues

Richmond Compact Dictionary

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The Richmond Compact Dictionary includes up-to-date vocabulary including internet, computing and entertainment, plus more than 110,000 words, sentences and examples, as well as 170,000 translations. It contains Spanish from Spain and Latin America as well as British and American English pronunciation and spelling differences. The CD-ROM is an extended version of the dictionary and is compatible with PC, PDA and Smartphone.

Key Features: