2024 THIRD YEAR SPECIFICATIONS

•	ENGLISH FILE PRE-INTERMEDIATE     4th Edition   U.1 to 4, 6 to 9 and 12   
                                                                                       
•	THE CLIMB

OMIT:     UNITS: 5-10-11 
                 SECTIONS: 4A p.31 ex. 5 listening  /  4B p.33 ex. 5 reading / 4C 6C (but do
                   Grammar Bank 6C) / 7 A&B / 8  B&C /  9A / Revise & Check  5&6, 7&8, 9&10 / 12C
                   The English File Quiz pp 98-99 (but deal with subject questions and do Grammar
                   Bank 12 C) 

    OPTIONAL:  Can you understand this text? in the Revise & Check sections
                          
    NOTE:          U 4: Teach Present Perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ (you may use the material in
                                   EF elementary Unit 12)
                         Unit 12: We suggest you do it after you have covered unit 6.

The coursebook gives intensive practice of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

SPEAKING There are plenty of speaking activities with stimulating topics.

VOCABULARY Every lesson in the book has a clear lexical aim. Many lessons are linked to the Vocabulary Banks which help present and practise topic-based vocabulary in class and help for revision.

LISTENING AND VIDEO
All the listening and video material can be found on The Teacher’s Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice, student’s eBook and the Class audio CDs.

 VIDEO
*Practical English sections. There are five video episodes.
*Video listening: (pp 19, 35, 83) These instances of video help students further develop their listening skills so make the most of them.
*Revise and Check: It’s 2-page section every two units. The right-hand page provides a series of skills-based listening challenges in the street interviews included in the section called Can you understand these people?

EF STUDENT’S BOOK ONLINE PRACTICE For students to practise and develop their language skills. Students can find the class audio and videos here. Encourage your students to use it. They access it following the instructions found in the card inside the Student’s Book.
TEACHER’S GUIDE We strongly recommend the use of this book which will guide you throughout the course. Besides the notes corresponding to each unit, you will find interesting and highly useful photocopiable material to use with your students: grammar, communicative and vocabulary activities. It also includes the Teacher’s Resource Centre containing all the Student’s Book audio/video files and scripts, detailed lesson plans from the Teacher’s Guide, answer keys, all the photocopiable activities from the T’s guide, the Workbook audio files and scripts and Tests and Assessment material. 

UNIT TESTS We recommend the Quick and File Tests.

We suggest that you join OXFORD TEACHERS’ CLUB and click on English File Teacher’s Site for useful resources. www.oup.com/elt/teacher/englishfile and refer your students to www.oup.com/englishfile 
WRITING Consult the Writing Section in the Student's Book.
                     See 2024 Types of Writing for Teens and Adults on our website.
                 
READER It would be advisable to give students some type of guidance, for instance, pre, while and after reading activities, content questions, role-playing of important parts of the story, gap-filling, matching and True-False exercises, etc. You will find the reader’s worksheet at www.cambridge.org/elt/readers.

Please help your students develop their reading skills by encouraging them to read the story and exploit it through different activities. By no means should you give them just a summary to study by heart.                   

For further grammar practice you may consult ‘Essential Grammar in Use’ (Elementary) by R. Murphy,