2024 FIRST YEAR SPECIFICATIONS

 ENGLISH FILE BEGINNER 4TH Ed. U. 1 to 8 and 10 to 12 (St's book & Workbook)

 KIDNAP

* OMIT: 8 B - Unit 9 + revise and check 9 & 10, 11 & 12

* OPTIONAL: Unit 12, but do grammar bank 12 A + video listening pp 27, 51,73

* NOTE When you deal with 8 A can/ can’t, mention the function of ‘ability’

*TEACH * Frequently used irregular plurals after unit 3A

* Description of a house/flat/room + questions with How Many? with Lesson 10A
* Ago in affirmative sentences with units 10B and 11
* Past simple form of the following verbs: come, drink, drive, eat, give, know, meet,
read, ride, take, and think.

*The coursebook gives intensive practice of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

SPEAKING There are plenty of speaking activities with stimulating topics.

VOCABULARY Every lesson in the book has a clear lexical aim. Many lessons are linked to the
Vocabulary Bank which helps present and practise topic-based vocabulary in class and helps for
revision.

LISTENING AND VIDEO All the listening and video material can be found on The Teacher’s
Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice, Student’s eBook and the Class audio
CDs.

VIDEO
*Practical English sections. There are six video episodes.
*Video listening: (optional) These instances of video help students further develop their listening skills.
*Revise and Check: It is a 2-page section every two units. The right-hand page provides a series of skills-
based listening challenges in the street interviews included in the section called Can you understand these
people?

EF STUDENT’S BOOK ONLINE PRACTICE For students to practise and develop their language skills.
Students can find the class audio and videos here. Encourage your students to use it. They access it following
the instructions found in the card inside the Student’s Book.
TEACHER’S GUIDE We strongly recommend the use of this book which will guide you throughout the
course. Besides the notes corresponding to each unit, you will find interesting and highly useful
photocopiable material to use with your students: grammar, communicative and vocabulary activities. It
also includes the Teacher’s Resource Centre containing all the Student’s Book audio/video files and scripts,
detailed lesson plans from the Teacher’s Guide, answer keys, all the photocopiable activities from the
Teacher’s guide, the Workbook audio files and scripts and Tests and Assessment material.
UNIT TESTS We recommend the Quick and File Tests.

We suggest that you join OXFORD TEACHERS’ CLUB and click on English File Teacher’s Site for
useful resources. www.oup.com/elt/teacher/englishfile and refer your students to www.oup.com/englishfile

WRITING Consult the Writing Section in the Student's Book

See 2024 Types of Writing for Teens and Adults on our website.

READER We suggest you start with ‘Kidnap’ in August when your students will have acquired more
knowledge of the language. We advise you to deal with the activities at the end of each chapter. We
recommend you use the CDROM that accompanies the book to listen to the dramatized audio recording to
help students to further develop their listening skills. Students will find lots of interactive activities in the same
CDROM.
Please help your students develop their reading skills by encouraging them to read the story and exploit
it through different activities. By no means should you give them just a summary to study by heart.

For further Grammar practice you may consult ‘Essential Grammar in Use’ (Elementary) by R. Murphy
and ‘Oxford English Grammar basic e-book´, by M. Swan and C. Walter.

EXTRA SUPPORT MATERIAL

On our website you will find Reading passages and Vocabulary exercises for extra practice.
 NOTE FOR THE FINAL TEST
Simple Past Tense will only be tested in Part A of the Written exam, it will not be included in Part B
(Writing). However, you should give your students the writing exercises including past tense which
appear in the book. As for the Oral exam, students will be asked a few questions using Past Tense in Part
A, but not in Part B (Reader).