As educational and information driven as its predecessor, New Challenges offers new interactive components, new strong themes and photo stories, and a lighter, which makes it a more manageable pathway from primary to secondary. New Challenges helps students become more effective learners and better citizens of the world. Through stimulating and engaging contexts and lively achievable tasks, New Challenges encourages young teens to think about the world around them and builds their confidence to participate, create, and perform. Studentsmove from a beginner level into secondary methodology which then prepares them for a more formal learning environment. Levels 1 and 2 cover the key objectives in the Council of Europe's Waystage level A2 , corresponding to CESOL's KET exam. Levels 3 and 4 cover all the key objectives in the Council of Europe's Threshold level B1 , corresponding to CESOL PET exam, as well as some of the objectives in the Vantage level B2 . The Workbook and Multi-ROM include preparation and practice for these exams. Themes are: related to students' own world friends, shopping, films, neighbours, holidays, sport cross-curricular science and technology, history develop citizenship education belonging and identity, diversity, awareness of disability about other cultures around the world lifestyles, charity concerts, technology Organisation: Get Readypage introduces topics first lessonpresents grammar through reading texts and practice second lessondevelops reading, presents vocabulary and practises speaking third lessondevelops the story with a focus on speaking and listening Across Cultureslessons with reading, speaking project work Your Challenge writing tasks and Understanding Grammarspots the end of every module has a language check and learner development spot Fact or Fictiontexts extend students' language by deciding whether information is true or false Time Outmagazine with fun activities like puzzles, games and reading for pleasure. Picture Dictionary
