Practical English At a Glance
Practical English, New edition is a general English course for elementary to advanced level learners that helps students improve their core English skills in the most efficient way possible.
This new edition has been refined to ensure continuous learner improvement utilising the latest technologies in formative computer adaptive testing, all new activity types to support independent learning and skills development, and the addition of 70 new lessons across A2 and C1 levels. The course now has 100+ lessons at each CEFR level.
Key Content: Business; Everyday life; Leisure and entertainment; People and relationships; Nature and the environment; Society; Travel and transportation
Additional Features: Blended lessons for teacher-led classes available as stand-alone PDFs with Teaching Notes, and in PPT format for front-of-class presentation
The latest learning technology
Practical English, New edition offers a highly personalised learning formula to identify weak areas, and provide study material that addresses individual needs as learners work through the course.
Following an initial diagnostic test, the system continuously checks performance to see if a student might need to change level in any of the skill categories.
Students will be prompted to complete level adjustment assessments at regular intervals to measure their abilities. This testing utilizes some of the latest machine learning techniques to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) that detects when, and if, the learner would benefit from more or less challenging content. Students can then alter the difficulty of their personal learning path to maximise their progress.
New activities, new lessons
Each lesson of Practical English, New edition offers varied content and task types, and follows a clear and proven learning cycle to build skills systematically. Lesson content is based around core topics that are typically found in a General English syllabus making it suitable for a wide range of learners.
The course features a variety of exercise types, including the use of animation to provide visual input and aid comprehension. The new edition now includes start-of-lesson activities that are designed to give context and links to personal experience, as well as enhanced in-lesson exercises to build further skills in pronunciation, aural comprehension and reading fluency.
Key features
- 420 content-rich lessons from A2 – C1 level covering a range of topics presenting language in day-to-day or work-place situations.
- 192 blended lessons for live, teacher-led classes (face-to-face or online) that complement the digital content and that have a specific focus on speaking skills.
- A learning formula that begins with a diagnostic test, and is continually supported by computer adaptive testing to help learners regularly measure their ability and maximise progress.
- A wide range of exercise types, including enhanced activities for pronunciation, aural comprehension and reading fluency.
- Detailed feedback on each activity, plus a full grammar reference to support learning and review.
- Material that includes a variety of accents from both English and non-English speaking countries.
- Optional Challenge activities allow users to accumulate learning badges for further motivation.
The lesson content of Practical English, New edition is customizable to make mini-courses that will fit specific syllabus and program requirements. Students yet to attain an A2 level of English should begin with Practical English Starter.
