New Step Ahead

New Step Ahead is a 3-level English course for Lower Secondary School students. This is the new revised edition by Claire Moore and Elizabeth Lee. It runs from Beginner to Intermediate standard from Level A1-B1 of the Common European Framework. The course includes imaginative and appealing topics to engage teenagers' interests as they learn and use English. Each volume of the Student's Book contains 10 Units divided into modules: Grammar, Steps to Communication and Skills. Each module ends with a Culture Site, a Spot Check to assess progress, and Exam Practice to help prepare students for KET and Trinity exams and a Final Check containing fun, revision-style tasks. The workbook runs alongside the student's book and also contains a grammar section at the back with summaries of all the grammar topics dealt with and a minidictionary presenting all of the lexis from the Student's Book in alphabetical order. The portfolio is divided into the following sections: Passport, Language Biography and Dossier. It encourages self-evaluation and helps organise study during the three years of education. Each teacher's book comes with 2 class audio CD's, an introduction to the methodology of the course, check lists for self-evaluation, syllabus planning for each module with answer keys, teaching ideas, cultural information, extra games and activities, pairwork tasks for role-play and the workbook answer key. The Test Books contain entry tests, an end of Unit revision test, an end of module revision test and 5 final tests covering the skills required in external examinations.