About this eBook
Pedagogical approach
The series contains lessons on a wide range of topics that encourage students to respond to the materials in a personal and authentic way. The pedagogical approach to the use of the materials draws on a more student-centred and humanistic understanding of the way language skills are learned and developed.
Blended learning
The blended learning activities that are included in each unit are intended to extend the students learning and help to develop their learner independence. The activities can be used at the discretion of the teacher either in a flipped way to prepare students for the lessons or to consolidate and extend what students have learned during the lessons. These activities have been developed to help students develop their writing skills, activate their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation and further develop their listening skills. Each unit contains at least 5 interactive activities that students can do either on their computer or mobile device.
Examples:
Writing activity: https://bit.ly/mp-writing
Summarising activity: https://bit.ly/ath-video-sum
Vocabulary activity: https://bit.ly/dm-vocab
Listening close activity: https://bit.ly/mov-close
Dictation activity: http://bit.ly/athlete-dict
Pronunciation check: https://bit.ly/mov-pron-check (Google Chrome users only)
Physical and virtual classroom use
The materials have been designed to be use- friendly for both the physical and the virtual classroom with audio files built into the slides and a wide range of materials that students can scan onto mobile devices to make listening or role play type activities easier to manage.
Topics
Unit 1 - Study skills and habits
Unit 2 - Mobile phone and social media use
Unit 3 - Dream homes and houses
Unit 4 - Holidays and travel
Unit 5 - Music and playing an instrument
Unit 6 - Shopping and clothes styles
Unit 7 - Sport and exercise
Unit 8 - Films and going to the cinema
Unit 9 - Interviews and talking about ourselves
Unit 10 - Describing products and making presentations
Ratings and reviews
About the author
Nik Peachey is Director of Pedagogy at PeacheyPublications, an independent digital publishing company that specialises in the design of digital learning materials.
He has been involved in Education since 1990 and has more than 20 years experience of working specifically with online and blended learning environments.
He has worked all over the world training teachers and developing innovative and creative products and is a two-time British Council Innovations award winner.
His customers include British Council, Eton College, Open University, Google Creative Labs and International House.
His more recent projects have included two years as pedagogical manager for a 100% online school owned by Macmillan ELT, Head of Content development for EtonX a 100% online school owned by Eton College and content developer for an English and Interfaith Dialogue course designed for the British Council and Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
His books include:
Digital Tools for Teachers
Thinking Critically through Digital Media
Digital Video - A Manual for Language Teachers
Hacking Creativity
Conversation & Listening - A series of lesson for the digital classroom
He also co-edited Creativity in the ELT Classroom and Creativity and the Sustainable Development Goals for the British Council
He is editor of the Edtech & ELT Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/
Company Website: https://peacheypublications.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/
