Our Discovery Island American English

• Each level of the Student Book contains a Welcome unit and 8 units each designed for 3-5 hours of class per week.
• Each unit includes a values lesson, a cross-curricular lesson and an “phonics” lesson.
• The CD-ROM contains additional interactive games and puzzles related to each unit of the Student Book. It also includes the songs and chants.
  

• The Workbook helps reinforce and consolidate the language presented in the Student Book. It contains controlled and freer practice plus personalization.
• The Audio CD has tracks for the listening activities in the Workbook.
  

The Teacher’s Edition has a step-by-step lesson plans covering all the course material.

Each lesson is clearly structured into stages:

• starting the lesson
• presentation
• practice
• ending the lesson

Further optional activities are suggested for extension to cover more teaching hours.

• Lesson notes are designed to be flexible to support busy teachers or those who have limited access to resources. The introduction includes recommended procedures for using games, classroom language and stories effectively and how all the course components can be best used in class.
• The Audio CD includes tracks for the photocopiable tests found in the Teacher’s Edition.
  

The Class Audio CDs contain all the chants, songs, stories, and listening comprehension activities. There are also karaoke versions of the songs.

Our Discovery Island ActiveTeach provides software for use on any Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) with integrated tools. It can also be used with just a computer and projector.

It contains links to all of the Student Book and Workbook pages, digitally transformed to create more opportunities for interaction between students, the teacher, and the classroom resources, as well as links to the audio and video.

Set of Picture Cards for each level contains the main target language in each unit which are used to present, practice, and consolidate language.

There is a multi-poster pack for the course. Teachers will find information on where best to use them in the main lesson notes in the Teacher’s Edition.