Pacesetter is a four-level English course that takes teenage students from beginner to intermediate level. You can begin the course with either Pacesetter Starter, which is for beginner, or Pacesetter Elementary, which is suitable for those who have achieved a basic level of English.
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 studens' 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.
Unit 1 New friends Countdown: numbers
Unit 2 Looking around: countries, classroom objects The Top Twen
Unit 3 The living world Families
Unit 4 At home Shirts and skirts clothes
Unit 5 The best of British:food What would you like?: mens
Unit 6 Life and times: the lives of pop stars Carnival time: London's carnival
Unit 7 Imagine this..: space travel inventions
Unit 8 That's amazing interesting facts Do you want to be a champion?
Unit 9 Travelling: coral reefs Having a wonderful time.?; holidays
Unit 10 Diet and lifestyle Pocket money
etc.