Live Beat

English type: British English

Levels: 4

CEFR: A1+-B1

GSE: 25-52

Ages: 12-16 years

Authors: Ingrid Freebairn, Jonathan Bygrave, Judy Copage, Liz Kilbey, Olivia Johnston, Sarah Curtis

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Live Beat is a vibrant four-level course that keeps teenage students motivated and focused to achieve better learning outcomes. It builds on the successful approach used by the same authors in the bestselling Upbeat course.

Highlights

A rich selection of multimedia

Native English-speaking teenagers in video blogs cover topics that appeal to students’ interests.
Functional videos, grammar and pronunciation animations make learning effective.
Interactive activities in the eTexts and MyEnglishLab keep students focused.

Teach effective communication

Realistic communicative activities help students to start using their English immediately.
Carefully structured lessons focus on both written and verbal communication skills.
Interactive functional videos activate language quickly.

Set goals and monitor performance

Regular revision sections consolidate students’ knowledge and build awareness of what they already know.
A comprehensive testing and assessment package allows teachers and students to track how well they are doing.
MyEnglishLab improves student results and allows teachers to monitor performance.

Over 130 videos

Videos and animations are an integral part of the course so you always have material on hand to engage your teenage students.

Resources

Try these useful resources and extra materials.

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Expert tips

Lesson plans & teaching notes

You can also access course-based resources in the Pearson English Portal. Find out more:

Teaching tips from the classroom

We asked you for your teaching tips. Here are some of our favorites.

Practicing written communication

“Writing stories: the story is written over several sessions. 1st: think of a place, think of it in detail, location, colors, smells, etc. Record the information. 2nd: Think of three or four characters. Describe them and the relationship among them. Record the information through notes. 3rd: think of a problem or situation that may have happened among them. Record the information through notes. 4th: put all the parts together by making a first draft of your story. Don't worry about grammar, pay attention to the story. 5th: edit the story, check grammar and the unity of the text.”

Alejandra Zegpi, Chile

Motivating teenagers by using technology:

“Teens are very motivated by use of new technologies. They like recording each other and they like work being uploaded to networks. As against this they can feel shy about their faces appearing, so I often get them to do roles with puppets, and they video record the puppets in action. The act of recording in video or simply voice recording motivates them to pronounce as well as they can, to use precise vocabulary and to use more correct grammar.”

Aisling O’Donovan, Spain

Practicing effective oral communication:

“For effective oral communication, I give them this as homework. It's called "phone calls". Each one of my students has to telephone one of their classmates (who calls who has been pre-arranged in class and telephone numbers have been exchanged). The telephone conversation will be based on what we are doing in class. If we are doing, for example, the present continuous tense with future reference, they will have to ask their classmate 2-3 questions about their weekend plans and note down their answers (it's always an excellent way to use reported speech at the same time).They seem to enjoy it greatly and they like to play at being English!”

Marina Nikolaou, Greece

Components & ISBNs

Components

Student's Book

The Student's Book contains 10 units that build and consolidate students’ knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, functional language and systematic development of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Language Revision helps students monitor their own progress through self-assessment while Skills Revision gives students practice question types from the Trinity, KET and PET exams.

Workbook

The Workbook follows the Student's Book structure:

exercises are at two levels of difficulty to cater for mixed ability classes
each input lesson ends with a Grammar Summary, with examples and simple rules. Language Round-Ups give extra practice and provide Self-check score boxes and an Audio answer key so students can check their knowledge.
Skills Practice Pages focus on reading, writing and listening

Teacher's Book

Class Audio CDs

Teacher's Resource Materials

Extra activities

Testing and assessment package

eText

Teacher's eText

Zoom in and out of the page, conjure up audio scripts and answers at the touch of a button, highlight words and phrases
capture your students’ imagination with animations, video clips, vlogs and games
the eText also contains teaching notes, motivator worksheets, tests, word lists and phonetics charts

Student's eText

The Student's eText is designed for individual use on a tablet or PC. With all the interactivity of the Teacher’s eTexts – but not the answers (or teacher-specific materials) the Student's eText can be used instead of a print version of the Student's Book.

MyEnglishLab

Access MyEnglishLab via the Pearson English Portal. MyEnglishLab offers additional benefits such as automated marking and extra support for students, online hints, tips and feedback, helping you to access learning anytime, anywhere.

For students:

an interactive version of the entire Workbook
extra skills practice
video blogs with follow-up activities to consolidate learning
additional Five Days drama video activities for more exposure to the authentic use of English
pronunciation activities with record and playback
useful tips for activities and instant feedback to tests to explain why an answer is right or wrong

For teachers:

see how your students are progressing at a glance with the Gradebook
understand your students’ common errors and see who’s making them with the Common Error Report
assign tasks to a whole class, groups of students or individual students
send feedback to your students

ISBNs

Level 1

Component	ISBN
Student's Book	9781447952688
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi A	9781292101927
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi B	9781292101934
Workbook	9781447952626
MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981206
Student's Book w/ MyEnglishLab	9781447981046
Student's eText Access Card	9781447952602
Student's eText Access Code	9781447981190
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Card	9781447952619
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981176
Class Audio CDs	9781447952589
eText CD-ROM	9781447981374
Teachers Book	9781447952701
eText Teachers Online Access Code	9781447952640

* = our newest components

Level 2

Component	ISBN
Student's Book	9781447952800
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi A	9781292101941
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi B	9781292101958
Workbook	9781447952756
MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981251
Student's Book w/ MyEnglishLab	9781447981053
Student's eText Access Card	9781447952732
Student's eText Access Code	9781447981244
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Card	9781447952749
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981220
Class Audio CDs	9781447952718
eText CD-ROM	9781447981381
Teachers Book	9781447952824
eText Teachers Online Access Code	9781447952770

* = our newest components

Level 3

Component	ISBN
Student's Book	9781447952930
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi A	9781292101965
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi B	9781292101972
Workbook	9781447952886
MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981305
Student's Book w/ MyEnglishLab	9781447981060
Student's eText Access Card	9781447952862
Student's eText Access Code	9781447981299
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Card	9781447952879
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981275
Class Audio CDs	9781447952848
eText CD-ROM	9781447981398
Teachers Book	9781447952954
eText Teachers Online Access Code	9781447952909

* = our newest components

Level 4

Component	ISBN
Student's Book	9781447953067
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi A	9781292101989
Student's Book & Workbook Flexi B	9781292101996
Workbook	9781447953012
MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981350
Student's Book w/ MyEnglishLab	9781447981077
Student's eText Access Card	9781447952992
Student's eText Access Code	9781447981343
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Card	9781447953005
Student's eText w/ MyEnglishLab Access Code*	9781447981329
Class Audio CDs	9781447952978
eText CD-ROM	9781447981404
Teachers Book	9781447953081
eText Teachers Online Access Code	9781447953036

* = our newest components

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Levels & samples

The Students’ Book contains 10 units that build and consolidate students’ knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, functional language and systematic development of the 4 language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Language Revision helps students monitor their own progress through self-assessment while Skills Revision gives students practice question types from the Trinity, KET and PET exams.

Students' Book samples

Videos

Videos and animations are an integral part of the course - there are more than 130 video clips in the course – so you always have material on hand to engage your teenage students.

Use your English

There are three versions of each of these interactive functional videos: the complete dialog, and a video of each speaker, so that students can role play as participants in the dialog. Each video is available with and without subtitles.

Vlogs

These video blogs (vlogs) feature teenagers casually discussing their own lives and a range of subjects, presenting vocabulary and grammar in a real context that students can identify with.

Five Days Drama

Available with Level 2 of the course, this teenage drama exposes students to authentic use of English.

Pronunciation animations

Pronunciation animations provide practice for specific sounds, and stress and intonation patterns to improve oral communication.

Grammar animations

These animations are a powerful tool to focus students’ attention on the language form and usage.

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