The Matrix series prepares secondary students for school-leaving examinations in English.
- Engaging texts provide authentic input for the development of students' reading and listening skills.
- Grammar is presented and practised by contrasting structures and tense which are commonly confused.
- Extensive vocabulary development increases active and passive knowledge. Word focus pages provide
vocabulary consolidation and extension.
- Speaking is practised throuht a wide range of controlled and freer activities, encouraging students to
take part in more structured discussions and to express their own ideas.
- Listening texts are based on authentic materials and feature a variety of speakers and accents.
- A comprehensive writing syllabus gives students step-by-step guidance in producing a wide variety of
text types.
- Culture focus pages in Matrix Pre-Intermediate provide opportunities for students to look at cross-
cultural and cross-curricular thems.
- Reading for pleasure pages expose students to authentic literary texts.
- Revision focus pages review language and skills as students progress through the course.
- A grammar reference and extensive wordlist with definitions and examples give extra support for
students and teachers.
1. Communication
2. The big time
3. Home and family
4. Body and Soul
5. The world ahead
6. New horizons
7. A sporting life
8. Strange but true
9. Times of change
10. Off to see the world