Pacesetter is a four-level English course that takes teenage students from beginner to internmediate level.
Its key features are:
- a communicative methodology which presents new language in context and allows students to become actively involved in the learning process
- a problem-solving apporach 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 interest in the world around them
- a systematic topics that draw on the students' experiences and develop their interest in the world around them
- 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 adn fourth that provide a cultural reference and present informal English
- Three consolidation units in each level to revise and extend the language and skill taught through a variety of cultural reference and present informal English.
Each level of Pacesetter is supported by a Workbook to ensure that the language and skills work prosented in the Student's Book are systematicaly revised, practised and extended. In addition, there are helpful Teacher's Books with comprehensive lesson notes, answer keys, tapescripts, suggestions for optional activities, and a photocopiable progress test for each unit.