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Fifth: Background to the Elective Course "English Insights "

English Insights is a motivating new series for Post Basic students. It has different levels.
English Insight 2 has been chosen for Grade 11 and English Insights 3 has been chosen
for Grade 12. The course combines an acclaimed approach to learning English with stunning
National Geographic images, DVD clips and articles. This series has two books: Student's
Book and Workbook.

The Student’s Book includes:

• Writing Insights to develop students’ spelling, punctuation, and paragraph-writing skills.
• Working with words to develop students’ understanding of how the lexical system
works.
• Skills testing to train students to tackle listening, reading, and exam-type tasks with
confidence.
• Culture sections to explore aspects of the English-speaking world.
• CLIL sections to discover science, technology, nature, history, and geography through
English.
• True stories about National Geographic explorers and people who have made a
difference to our world.
• Projects which provide multi-modal learning opportunities.
• Grammar GPS reference section which provides all the grammar students need to
know and is cross-referenced to each unit.

The Workbook includes:

• A DVD with National Geographic videos with worksheets to complete in class or
at home.
• A Workbook Audio CD with dialogues and pronunciation activities.
• Additional grammar, vocabulary, and skills practice.
• Additional Writing Insights pages to follow on from the Student’s Book.
• Reading Insights – full-colour reading skills pages.
• Word lists for both the Student’s Book and Workbook.

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