Pacesetter is a four-level English course that takes teenage studens from beginner to intermediate level.
Its key features are:
- a communicative methodology which presents new language in context and allows students to become actively involved in the leaning process
- a problem-solving approach to grammar which helps students to work out for themselves the meaning and use of structures
- motivating topics that draw on the students' experiences and develop their interrest in the world around them
- a systematic vocabulary syllabus combined with learning-to-learn skills to encourage students to develop their own strategies for remembering new words
- integrated skills work that provides step-by-step practice of speaking, listening, reading and writing
- a lively photo-story in the first two levels and engaging short stories in the third and fourth that provide a cultural reference and present informal English
- three consolidation units in each level to revise and extend the language and skills taught through a variety of controlled and free activities, including project work