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Think Global – A Cultural Journey through the English-Speaking World

Do you know that:

• Queen Elizabeth II has two birthdays a year?
• the world’s youngest film director is from India?
• Shakespeare created more than 500 new words in his writing and many of them are still used today?
• there’s a maple leaf on the Canadian flag?
• there are more Manchester United fans in China than in Manchester?

Think Global is a fascinating and dynamic new course about Anglophone culture for young learners of English. It brings to life the vibrancy and mix of the modern day reality of a global English community.

The book contains 15 units with each one concentrating on a topic of interest to today’s youngsters. Each unit is divided into two levels with the first four pages at A1/A2 level while the following four pages are at A2 level. This allows teachers to focus on a topic with two different levels of difficulty and deal with students who are at a different level of language ability.

In each unit there is:

• a Country Profile dedicated to an English-Speaking country,
• study pages to improve exam technique,
• a skills section which consist of a short video clip followed by comprehension activities or a reading text with a similar kind of comprehension check,
• Key Language that helps students carry out the speaking activities,
• Did you know…? boxes that give students unusual facts aabout the English-speaking world,
• KEY (KET) and TRINITY practice,
• interactive glossary.

At the end of the book, you’ll find:

• 12 study pages dedicated to skills needed to pass an exam in English,
• 3 fun board games.