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ENGLISH FILE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FOURTH EDITION

All 8 levels available now

Advanced Plus is for higher-level students who want to push the boundaries of their
English learning.

Fully flexible teaching and learning tools for you and your students
Whether you're teaching face to face, remotely, or both, English File offers flexible
teaching and learning tools for every situation.
The fourth edition is available in both print and digital format so you can choose
how you use it.

WHAT'S NEW FOR FOURTH EDITION?

 Motivate students with new and updated texts, topics and tasks
 Make class time more dynamic with Video Listening activities
 Practise and develop language with Online Practice - including Sound Bank
videos and Interactive Videos focused on Practical English
 Manage all your teaching materials with the Teacher's Resource Centre
 Show course content on screen with the Classroom Presentation Tool
FOR STUDENTS :

Say It: English Pronunciation App

This app allows students to hear the Oxford model, see the soundwave, then record
and compare their pronunciation. Instant, personalised audio-visual feedback will
help students to identify precisely what they need to improve. It's quick, effective and
fun to use.

Learn more about the Say It: English Pronunciation app for iOS and Android.

Student's Book

All the language and skills you need to improve your English, with Grammar,
Vocabulary, Pronunciation, and skills work in every File.

Students use their Student’s Book in class with their teacher.

Student’s Book Sample

https://view.pagetiger.com/english-file-4e-brochure/2022/IntermediateSBFile1.pdf
Workbook

Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation practice for every lesson. Students use
their Workbook for homework or self-study to practice language and to check their
progress.

Student’s Workbook Sample

https://view.pagetiger.com/english-file-4e-brochure/2022/IntermediateWBFile1.pdf

Oxford Online Practice

Keep your students learning outside the classroom with videos, audio and various
interactive activities with instant automated marking and awards.

License length for this component is 24 months.

Find out how Oxford Online Practice makes learning more fun, engaging and
motivating here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UtQck2HrtQQ&list=PLxE1zzJKa1eFjhbnDo3HiSbf2cehkdkzI&index=1
Oxford Online Practice is found to have a positive impact on students' engagement
with learning English outside the classroom. Learn about the impact study here.

https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/oxford-online-practice-impact

Student's Book e-book and Workbook e-book

Both the Student's Book and Workbook are available as e-books, for use in
class or at home.

Licenses for these give students perpetual access to the e-books.

FOR TEACHERS :

Teacher’s Resource Centre

All your English File resources, stored in one place to save you time.

Resources include:

 Student’s Book audio and video

 Workbook audio

 Detailed lesson plans

 Answer keys

 Photocopiable activities

 Tests and assessment material

 CEFR documents

Use the Gradebook to track your students’ progress.

Click here to view

Teacher's Guide

Step-by-step notes for all the lessons including:

 An optional ‘books-closed’ lead-in for every lesson.

 Extra challenge suggestions for ways of exploiting the Student’s Book

material in a more challenging way if you have a stronger class.

 Extra support suggestions for ways of adapting activities or exercises

to make them work with weaker students.

 Extra ideas for optional activities.

 Over 60 pages of photocopiable activities.

 Answer keys.

 Audio scripts.
SAMPLE :
https://view.pagetiger.com/english-file-4e-brochure/2022/IntermediateTGFil
e1pdf.pdf

Class CDs and Class DVD

All the listening materials for the Student's Book can be found on the
Teacher's Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice,
Student's eBook, and the Class Audio CDs.
All the video materials for the Student's Book can be found on the
Teacher's Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice,
Student's eBook, and the Class DVD.

Classroom Presentation Tools

Use in class to deliver engaging lessons and bring your coursebooks to

life. Simply present your learning resources on screen for highly engaging
lessons either face to face or online.

https://view.pagetiger.com/english-file-4e-brochure/2022/
ODM6677EnglishFile4thedUnboxingvideoV62-mp4-pt-encoded.mp4
LIFE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LEARNING

https://www.ngllife.com/
This is the sencond edition of the British Life companion site

About LIFE
Welcome to Life
Welcome to the second edition of Life. It’s been a fantastic
experience to use the feedback we’ve collected from teachers and
learners from around the world to revisit the first edition and build
on its strengths.
There are three things that a second edition gives an opportunity
for: to bring in fresh content; to adjust existing content to ensure it
delivers a book’s underlying methodological principles; and to refine
and improve exercises according to user feedback. What does this
mean for the second edition?
 New and updated content, including exciting original video and
fresh National Geographic stories and articles.
 By linking this rich, global content more clearly to learners’
everyday lives, new ’My Life’ speaking tasks are even more
personalised and relatable.
 Revised grammar spreads make learning more accessible and
more effective. These spreads are reinforced with a newly
extended grammar practice at the back of the student books.
 The Critical Thinking activities are now part of a more fully-
articulated syllabus, founded on Bloom’s taxonomy of lower
and higher order thinking skills.
 Techniques to make learning more memorable, already present
in Life's use of images and engaging content, have now been
refreshed and extended throughout the unit and in the review
sections.
We would like to emphasise that we have examined every exercise
and activity for its relevance and effectiveness based on comments
and suggestions made by users worldwide. We hope you are happy
with the results – we certainly are.

Component Overview

For Students
 Student's Book + App Code
 Online Workbook (Printed Access Card)
 Student's Book + App Code + OWB
 Workbook Without Key + Audio CD
 Workbook With Key + Audio CD
 Student's Book eBook Without Key
 Combo Splits + App Code
 Student Book Splits + App Code

For Instructors
 Teacher’s Book + Class Audio CD + DVD
 Classroom Presentation Tool (USB)
 ExamView

New and Updated Features

The following new and updated features of the second edition
of Life are based on extensive research and consultation with
teachers and learners from around the world:
  Updated global content in the unit themes and reading
selections
 Updated video material featuring additional video support for
vocabulary learning
 New, specially selected National Geographic photography
stimulates learners’ visual literacy skills
 A refined grammar syllabus with increased scaffolding and an
enhanced reference section
 Extended and better-integrated critical thinking syllabus
actively engages students in their language learning,
encouraging them to develop their own well-informed and
reasoned opinions
 New ‘My Life’ speaking activities encourage learners to relate
the global content to their own lives
 New ‘Memory Booster’ activities improve students’ ability to
retain new language
 An improved Classroom Presentation Tool now includes the
Workbook pages, academic skills worksheets, extra support,
and extension activities
 A new Student App includes video, audio for the Student Book
and Workbook, grammar practice, interactive reading practice,
expanded wordlists, and games

Life Product Video ( cette video explique le concept du

produit)

http://wowzahttp.cengage.com/natgeo/ngl/life2e-videos/marketing/
VIDEO_Life2e_FINAL_720_5Mbps.mp4

National Geographic and Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is the ability to develop and use an analytical and
evaluative approach to learning. It’s regarded as a key 21st Century
skill. Life Second Edition integrates and develops a learner’s critical
thinking alongside language learning for the following reasons:

• critical thinking tasks such as problem-solving and group

discussion make lessons much more motivating and engaging

• developing critical thinking skills encourages an enquiring

approach to learning which enables learners to discover language
and become more independent in their study skills
• language practice activities that involve critical thinking require
deeper processing of the new language on the part of the learner

In Life Second Edition you will see that there is a graded critical
thinking syllabus that starts at Elementary level and runs through all
later levels. The sections entitled ‘Critical thinking’ always appear in
the C lessons in each unit and are associated with reading the
longer texts. These lessons begin with reading comprehension
activities that test students’ understanding and then may ask them
to apply their understanding in a controlled practice activity. Having
understood the text at a basic level, the critical thinking section
requires students to read the text again more deeply to find out
what the author is trying to achieve and to analyse the writing
approach. For example, students may have to read between the
lines, differentiate between fact or opinion, evaluate the reliability of
the information, assess the relevance of information, or identify the
techniques used by the author to persuade the reader or weigh up
evidence. Activities such as these work particularly well with the C
lesson texts in Life Second Edition because the texts used in these
lessons are authentic. These authentic texts, which have been
adapted to the level where necessary, tend to retain the author’s
voice or perspective, so students can work to understand the real
argument behind a text. Naturally, these kinds of reading skills are
invaluable for students who are learning English for academic
purposes or who would like to take examinations such as IELTS. In
addition, life in the twenty-first century requires people to develop
the ability to assess the validity of a text and the information they
receive, so this critical thinking strand in Life Second Edition is
important for all students.

As well as applying critical thinking to the reading texts, Life

Second Edition encourages students to apply critical thinking skills
in other ways. When new vocabulary or grammar is presented,
students are often expected to use the target language in controlled
practice activities. Then they use the language in productive
speaking and writing tasks where they are given opportunities to
analyse and evaluate a situation and make use of the new language
both critically and creatively. In this way, students move from using
‘lower-order thinking’ to ‘higher-order thinking’; many of the lessons
in Life Second Edition naturally follow this flow from exercises that
involve basic checking and controlled practice to those that are
productive, creative, and more intellectually engaging. This learning
philosophy can also be seen at work in the way in which photos and
videos are used in the book. Students are encouraged to speculate
and express their opinions on many of the photographs or in the
‘after you watch’ sections of the video pages. Finally, on the writing
pages of the units, students are asked to think critically about how
they organize their writing and the language they choose to use.
They are also guided to think critically to establish criteria by which
their writing can then be judged.

Central to the approach to critical thinking in Life Second Edition is

the premise that students should be actively engaged in their
language learning. Students are frequently invited to ask questions
and to develop their own well-informed and reasoned opinions. The
overall combination of text analysis (in the C lessons), a guided
discovery approach to language, and the way in which the book
makes use of images in the classroom effectively supports this aim.

Memorization
An important role for teachers is to help learners commit new
language to longer-term memory, not just their short-term or working
memory. According to Gairns and Redman (Working with Words,
Cambridge University Press, 1986), 80% of what we forget is
forgotten within the first twenty-four hours of initial learning.

So, what makes learning memorable? The impact of the first

encounter with new language is known to be a key factor. Life
Second Edition scores strongly in this area because it fulfils what
are called the ‘SUCCESS factors’ in memorization (Simplicity,
Unexpectedness, Concreteness, Credibility, Emotion and Stories) by
engaging learners with interesting, real-life stories and powerful
images. Life Second Edition also aims, through motivating speaking
activities that resonate with students’ own experiences, to make
new language relatable. What is known is that these encounters
with language need to be built on thorough consolidation, recycling,
repetition and testing. It is said that a new language item needs to
be encountered or manipulated between five and fifteen times
before it’s successfully committed to longer-term memory. With this
in mind, we have incorporated the following elements in Life Second
Edition:

a. more recycling of new vocabulary and grammar through each

unit and level of the series
b. activities in the Classroom Presentation Tool (CPT) that start
each new lesson with revision and recycling of previous
lessons
c. progress tests and online end-of-year tests
 d. activities in the Review lessons at the end of each unit,
marked ‘Memory booster’
These ‘Memory booster’ activities are based on the following
methodologically proven principles:

 Relatability: learning is most effective when learners apply

new language to their own experience.
 A multi-sensory approach: learning is enhanced when more
than one sense (hearing, seeing, etc.) is involved in perception
and retention. (Language is not an isolated system in memory;
it’s linked to the other senses.)
 Repetition and variation: learners need to frequently retrieve
items from memory and apply them to different situations or
contexts.
 Guessing/Cognitive depth: making guesses at things you are
trying to retrieve aids deeper learning.
 Utility: language with a strong utility value, e.g. a function such
as stating preferences, is easier to remember.
 No stress: it’s important that the learner does not feel anxious
or pressured by the act of remembering.
 Peer teaching: this is an effective tool in memory consolidation
(as in the adage, ‘I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do
and I understand. I teach and I master.’)
 Individuality: we all differ in what we find easy to remember, so
co-operation with others helps the process.
You probably already use revision and recycling in your teaching.
Our hope is that these exercises will stimulate ideas for other fun
and varied ways you can do this, which in turn may lead students to
reflect on what learning and memorization strategies work best for
them as individuals.

NGL Values and Mission

National Geographic Learning’s mission is to bring the world to the
classroom and the classroom to life. With our English language
programs, students learn about their world by experiencing it.
Through our partnerships with National Geographic and TED, they
develop the language and skills they need to be successful global
citizens and leaders.
Our English language teaching and learning materials:

 Create global citizens

 Motivate learners to engage fully with their learning
 Prepare them with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st
century
  Teach them to use English effectively

Visuals in Life
National Geographic Photography
We live in a world where images are used more than ever to
reinforce, and at times replace, the spoken and written word. We
use our visual literacy – the ability to look at and understand images
– every day of our lives. In particular, photographs tend to prompt
emotive memories and help us to recall information. For this reason,
the use of photographs and pictures in the classroom is a highly
effective learning tool. Not surprisingly then, the Life series makes
maximum use of the great photographs which are at the core of
National Geographic content. The photographs in Life Second
Edition add impact and serve as an engaging starting point to each
unit. Then, in each lesson, photographs form an integral part of the
written and recorded content and generate meaningful language
practice in thoughtful and stimulating ways. There are photographs
which:

 tell a story by themselves

 draw the viewer in and engage them emotionally
 support understanding of a text and make it memorable
 provoke debate
 stimulate critical thinking by asking you to examine detail or
think about what is NOT shown or by questioning the
photographer’s motives
 are accompanied by a memorable quotation or caption
 help learners to remember a lexical set
 help to teach functional language
 lend themselves to the practice of a specific grammar point
As a first exercise when handing out the new book to your students,
you could ask them to flick through the book, select their favourite
photograph, and then explain to the class what it is they like about
it. You will find specific suggestions in the teacher’s notes for using
the photographs featured within each unit, but two important things
to note are:

 pictures of people or animals can capture a moment, so ask

students to speculate on the events that led up to this moment
and those that followed it
 pictures of places aim to capture their essence, so feed
students the vocabulary they need to describe the details that
 together convey this (the light, the colours, the landscape, the
buildings)

National Geographic Video

Students’ visual literacy and fascination with moving images mean
that, in addition to the use of photographs and pictures, video is also
an extremely effective tool in the classroom. Each unit of Life
Second Edition ends with a National Geographic video. These
videos, which can be found on the DVD at the back of the Teacher’s
Book, the Student’s Web App and on the Life website, are connected
to the topic of the unit and are designed to be used in conjunction
with the video lesson pages. Typically, a video lesson is divided into
three parts:

Before you watch

This section leads students into the topic of the video and engages
them in a pre-watching task. It also pre-teaches key vocabulary so
that students can immediately engage with the video without being
distracted by unfamiliar words and the need to reference a lengthy
glossary.

While you watch

These tasks assist with comprehension of the video itself, both in
terms of what students see and what they hear. The exercises also
exploit the language used in the video.

After you watch

There are two parts to this section. The first is an on-screen
exercise called Vocabulary in context, which focuses on useful
words and expressions from the video. The second allows students
to respond to the video as a whole and take part in a discussion or
task that leads on from the context and theme of the video.

The videos are designed to form part of your lessons. However, if

there is insufficient time in class to watch them all, you can ask
students to watch the videos and complete many of the exercises
on the page in the Student’s Book at home. This can form a useful
part of their self-study. Students can also watch the videos again
after seeing them in class. This is useful for review and enables
students to focus on parts of the video that particularly interest
them. For further variation with the videos, here are some more
ideas you can use and develop:
  Play the video with the sound down. Students predict what the
narrator or people are saying. Then play with the sound up and
compare.
 Play the sound only with no video. Students predict where the
video takes place and what is happening on the screen. Then
play the video as normal and compare.
 Show the first part of the video, pause it, and then ask
students what they think happens next.
 Give students a copy of the video script and ask them to
imagine they are the director. What will they need to film and
show on the screen? Afterwards, they present their
‘screenplay’ ideas to the class, then finally watch the original.
 Write a short text on the same topic as the one in the video.
However, don’t include the same amount of information and
leave some facts out. Students read the text and then watch
the video. They make notes on any new information and
rewrite the text so it includes the new details.
 With monolingual groups, choose part of the video in which
someone is talking. Ask students to listen and write down
what they say. Then, in groups, ask them to create subtitles in
their own language for that part of the video. Each group
presents their subtitles and the class compares how similar
they are.

Try it Out (Samples by levels)

British English (il existe aussi en version American English)
Beginner
Try it Out: Beginner
Video:

 Unit 1 Video 1.1: Full

Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Beginner Scope and Sequence.pdf (265.55 KB)
Download Life 2E Beginner Unit 1 Student's Book.pdf (22.85 MB)
Download Life 2E Beginner Unit 1 Workbook.pdf (7.01 MB)
Download Life 2E Beginner Teacher's Book Unit 1.pdf (720.21 KB)

Elementary
Try it Out: Elementary
Video:

 Unit 1 Video 1.1: Full

 Unit 1 Video 1.2: Vocabulary
Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Elementary Scope and Sequence.pdf (261.4 KB)
Download Life 2E Elementary Unit 1 Student's Book.pdf (29.95 MB)
Download Life 2E Elementary Unit 1 Workbook.pdf (4.81 MB)
Download Life 2E Elementary Teacher's Book Unit 1.pdf (768.05 KB)

Pre Intermediate
Try it Out: Pre-intermediate
Video:

 Unit 1 Video 1.1

Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Pre-intermediate Scope & Sequence.pdf (255.88 KB)
Download Life 2E Pre-intermediate Student's Book Unit 1.pdf (26.55
MB)
Download Life 2E Pre-intermediate Unit 1 Teacher's Book.pdf (801.95
KB)
Download Life 2E Pre-intermediate Unit 1 Workbook.pdf (4.21 MB)

Intermediate
Try it Out: Intermediate
Video:

 Unit 1 Video 1.1

 Vocabulary in Context Video 1.2
Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Intermediate Scope and Sequence.pdf (219.29 KB)
 Download Life 2E Intermediate Student's Book Unit 1.pdf (3 MB)
Download Life 2E Intermediate Unit 1 Teacher's Book.pdf (821.42 KB)
Download Life 2E Intermediate Unit 1 Workbook.pdf (3.17 MB)

Upper Intermediate
Try it Out: Upper Intermediate
Video:

 Unit 1 Video 1.1

 Vocabulary in Context Video 1.2
Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Upper Intermediate Scope & Sequence.pdf (126.91 KB)
Download Life 2E Upper Intermediate Workbook Unit 1.pdf (3.69 MB)
Download Life 2E Upper Intermediate Unit 1 Student's Book.pdf (20.1
MB)
Download Life 2E Upper Intermediate Unit 1 Teacher's Book.pdf (862.5
KB)

Advanced
Try it Out: Advanced
Video:

 Video 1.1: Full

 Video 1.2: Vocabulary
Audio:

 Student's Book
 Workbook
Download Life 2E Advanced Scope and Sequence.pdf (198.96 KB)
Download Life 2E Advanced Unit 1 Student's Book.pdf (25.08 MB)
Download Life 2E Advanced Workbook Unit 1.pdf (3.2 MB)
Download Life 2E Advanced Teacher's Book Unit 1.pdf (823 KB)

Student Web App (il est nécessaire d’avoir le manuel car cette fonction
demande un code d’accès)
Student Resources
British English

Pour chacun des niveaux (Beginner, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate,

Advanced) on retrouve des onglets qui dirigent les étudiants vers les catégories suivantes ;
Audio Student’s Book, Audio Workbook, Videos, Grammar Practice Worksheets, et Word
Lists.

Tous sont accessibles à l’aide des codes ou des comptes créés par « the local National
Geographic Learning representative » suite à l’inscription et /ou l’acquisition des manuels et
des droits d’utilisation des applications.

Teacher Resources
British English

Contient tous les niveaux à partir de Beginner jusqu’au Advanced.

En plus on retrouve Classroom Presentation Tool Resources, Life Pacing Guide et Placement
Tests.

Pour chacun des niveaux on peut avoir accès sous les mêmes conditions d’utilisation que
pour les Ressources Etudiants aux ressources suivantes :

Teacher’s Book, Student’s Book Video, Student’s BookAudio, Workbook Audio, CEFR
Correlation, Audioscripts (Word), Videoscripts (Word), Reading Texts (Word),
Communicative Worksheets, ExtraPractice Activities, Grammar Practice Worksheets, Word
Lists, Ready-made lessons, Split Editions TB References, Answer Keys, Web Research for
Life, ExamView, Communicative Activities, Tests.

Je dirais que si il fallait faire un choix cela serait vraiment pas facile car chacun des deux
méthodes sont d’une variété et d’une richesse incroyables.

Personnellement, je pencherais peut être pour National Geographic Learning car l’offre
visuelle est indiscutablement beaucoup plus riche et plus pertinente. Il y a vraiment une
originalité dans les ressources que la méthode propose sans oublier leur étroite
collaboration avec le TED et British Council.

En plus de proposer l’apprentissage des notions de grammaire, vocabulaire, communication

ou langue anglaise, Life National Geographic ouvre une porte vers le monde dans le sens
propre car la méthode nous fait voyager à travers les coins les plus insolites de la planète, les
photographies, les images, les vidéos sont un concentré de civilisation et de culture qui nous
enseigne la beauté du monde, des environnements qu’on connait bien, moins bien ou pas
du tout.

Je crois fortement que la méthode pourra convaincre notre public à suivre, apprendre et
élargir ses connaissances en anglais avec énormément de plaisir et même d’étonnement et
de curiosité car le manuel touche toutes les catégories d’apprenants peu importe leurs
objectifs dans le parcours d’acquisition d’une nouvelle langue, l’anglais.