Viewpoint

The Student's Book features twelve units of engaging content. It has been expertly designed to help your high-intermediate level students communicate fluently and successfully in today's world. Each unit consists of:

• four two-page lessons that present grammar, vocabulary, and conversation strategies, and include listening, speaking, and reading practice.
• a single-page lesson that teaches the language and skills of writing including a special grammar chart about the grammar of writing.
• a Vocabulary notebook page with practical learning tips to help students catalogue new vocabulary, reinforce collocations, and further develop their vocabulary-building skills.
• two Grammar extra pages at the back of the book that contain additional information and practice exercises on the target grammar of each A and B lesson.
• a ‘Speaking naturally’ activity at the back of the book that presents and practices a feature of pronunciation, linked to the language of the unit.

The Student’s Book is also available in a split edition for Level 1. There is also a version of the Student’s Book that includes an access code to the Online Workbook.

The Workbook provides reinforcement and consolidation of the material in the Student's Book. It provides additional practice of vocabulary, grammar, and conversation strategies, as well as extra reading, writing, and listening activities. It features:

• Personalized grammar and vocabulary tasks.
• Follow-up exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book.
• Progress charts providing self-assessment and references to the Student's Book pages.

The Teacher’s Edition contains practical, step-by-step teaching notes for each page of the Student’s Book. It also offers:

• Language notes that not only provide an overview of the language presented in each unit but also give useful information, drawn from the Corpus, on the frequency of grammatical forms, words, and expressions.
• a wide variety of optional interactive classroom tasks geared to both small and large classes.
• a photocopiable testing package containing general, writing, and speaking quizzes for every unit, along with answer keys and scripts.
• audio scripts for all recorded material from the Student’s Book and Workbook.
• unit-by-unit language summaries that include the unit vocabulary and expressions.
• the Workbook answer key.

An Assessment Audio CD/CD-ROM bound into the Teacher’s Edition contains:

• general, speaking, and writing mid-term and end-of-book tests. All tests are available as both PDFs and Word documents.
• PDFs and Word documents of all the general, speaking, and writing quizzes.
• audio recordings, answer keys, and scripts for the Viewpoint testing program.

The DVD provides conversations and presentations that accompany the Student’s Books, featuring:

• Natural conversations in realistic situations
• Visual context and cues to help present new language
• Engaging entertainment to motivate students