Active Reading

This program intelligently integrates reading with other skills.

A text on fashion leads on to an activity where learners create their own advertisement for a watch; a unit on recipes takes students online to research recipes from different countries. This means speaking and writing are key ingredients in each unit and learners can listen to a range of native speakers reading the texts, helping them to identify sense groups and develop their chunking skills.

The program comes at six levels from Elementary to Advanced, with ten units in each level. Each unit starts with a video introduction, moves through controlled practice and comprehension exercises and concludes with a freer activity which expands on the topic.