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Guess What! British English
Are you ready to explore?
Guess What! British English is a highly visual six-level course.
This course takes young learners on a journey to explore the world as they learn English. This highly visual six-level course taps into children's natural curiosity and sparks their interest through content-based topics, beautiful photography and captivating video. The focus on functional language provides learners with the tools they need to use English in and outside of school, while lively stories prepare them for success in life with social values.
Product Details
Authors: Susannah Reed, Lesley Koustaff, Kay Bentley
CEFR Levels: A1 - A2Key Features
Explore fascinating topics and inspire children's interest in the world with beautiful photography, adventure stories, and video documentaries.Build speaking confidence through socially useful language, lively songs and chants, to make learning enjoyable and memorable.Build the foundation for exam success with resources on Cambridge One, along with a syllabus mapped to Pre A1 Starters and A1 Movers exams.Guess What! British English is part of a learning experience that could only come from Cambridge
It's shaped by unique insights from our extensive research and expertise, all to enable teachers to do what they do best - teach - and learners to reach their full potential.
Content
Are you ready to explore?Beautiful photography, captivating video, and interest-grabbing CLIL-based topics take English learners on a fascinating journey of exploration and discovery.
Tapping into natural curiosity to spark interest
Children are full of questions and naturally curious about the world around them.
• Through the power of beautiful photography in the Unit openers and Content lessons Guess What! taps into this curiosity and sparks interest in topics from across the curriculum.
• Captivate learners' attention with video featuring fascinating parts of our world, presented by young, dynamic presenters.
Language needs to be meaningful
Guess What! supports language production by providing tools for interpersonal and academic communication, focusing on BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) and CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency):
• Functional mini-dialogues, 'Talk time', teach natural conversation skills in English;
• Content (CLIL) lessons teach subject-specific language.
Building confidence in every lesson
Language is presented in clear manageable chunks making the activities challenging but achievable.
• ‘Say it’ sections improve pronunciation and spelling thanks to focus on sounds of English and the relation between the sounds and letters
• Plenty of practice, recycling and revision opportunities reinforce key language and skills. Each lesson in the Pupil’s Book is reinforced by activities in the Activity Book and online practice, and there is a revision spread every two units.
Improve proficiency across content areas
The topics are selected from the common subjects in the wider primary curriculum. Each level builds on the cross-curricular content of the previous levels in order to systematically develop children's knowledge.
● Content lessons improve proficiency across content areas while video documentaries improve understanding and listening skills.
● Project at the end of each content lesson consolidate children’s subject knowledge and language skills in a creative way, helping to develop creative thinking.
All your digital tools in one place
Now teachers and learners can access all the digital content in one place - Cambridge One, our new learning management platform, adapted especially for young learners.
Teachers can access classroom presentation tool, teacher training, tests, worksheets, class audio and video, and can monitor students' online practice.
Students can practise language and skills with bite-sized activities, enjoy interactive games and videos, and see their own progress as they complete the activities along the learning path.
Insights
Materials that spark interest and support learningChildren are natural explorers. They have an insatiable curiosity about the world around them and are eager to learn and talk about topics that interest them. Guess What! taps to children's natural curiosity and creates opportunities for meaningful communication by providing stimulating visuals, topics and language tools.
Achievable challenges are motivating
Experimenting with language is an important part of learning making the achievement of success all the greater. Guess What! ensures learning opportunities are plentiful, clear and targeted.
Syllabus you can trust
Guess What! language and skills are benchmarked to the international standards of Starters and Movers supporting learners who wish to sit the international tests.
Meaningful, socially useful language
Because many learners have limited exposure to English, opportunities for communication need to be engaging and meaningful. Guess What! provides children with both academic and socially useful language so that learners can apply it to their daily situations st achool and in the playground.
Visual Learning and Curiosity
Strong impactful images trigger curiosity and encourage the learner to find out more. By building on prior knowledge and expanding out to the wider world the child develops a deeper appreciation of their world and a reason to learn.
Results
Nourishing natural curiosity, nourishing a drive to learningBy activating curiosity through powerful thought-provoking imagery we provide Better Learning opportunities. Ensuring the language and tasks are manageable but challenging will help increase the learners' motivation and provide a Better environment for learning.
Motivating learners through meaningful and socially useful language
By making the language and tasks meaningful to the child's reality by differentiating between social and academic language we aim to provide better motivation.
Developing social skills for success in life
Stories are a powerful vehicle to stimulate children's imagination and to illustrate social values. The adventure stories in Guess What! prepare children for success in life by teaching them collaboration, communication, responsibility and respect towards the others and the world.
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