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Publications updated August 2008

Here follows a limited list of recent publications for EFL at secondary schools. It is definitely not exhaustive and we are gladly willing to supplement it with missing titles. The list is simply descriptive and holds no evaluation. The editors are listed alphabetically.

We asked British educational publishers which courses they would advise us to use with 1° students taking general studies and 2° students taking non-specific technical studies and here is what they suggested:

British publishers

1          Cambridge University Press

Technical, vocational

English in Mind, (also for general studies, 6 levels)

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/englishinmind/

General studies

Face 2 Face (4 levels but a fifth level Advanced is about to be published. For young adults.)

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/face2face/

2          Macmillan

Straightforward (6 levels, A1-C1)

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/straightforward/about.htm

Inside Out (6 levels, A1 – C1, pre-intermediate has been renewed)

http://www.macmillanenglishcampus.com/section.asp?catid=135

Global (New in 2010, 6 levels, adult course)

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/BlankTemplate.aspx?id=28164

3          Oxford University Press

Technical, vocational

New English File (4 levels but there will be 6 in 2009)

http://www.oup.com.au/content/General.asp?ContentID=1881

English for Life (3 levels, finishes at lower-intermediate and offers a more traditional approach compared to New English File)

http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/3005?cc=gb

General studies

New Headway (6 levels, beginner to advanced)

Oxford University Press - New Headway

4          Pearson - Longman

Technical, vocational

Success (a course published on 5 levels for technical education)

http://www.pearson.ch/LanguageTeaching/Longman/1449/9781405851916/NEW-Success.aspx

New Snapshot (4 levels, for vocational)

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/snapshot/students/index.html

Upbeat (March 2009, for vocational)

http://www.eflbooks.co.uk/book.php?isbn=9781408217221&continue=index.php

General studies

New Opportunities (On 5 levels)

http://www.pearson.ch/LanguageTeaching/Longman/1449/9780582854116/NEW-Opportunities.aspx

Total English (on 6 levels, starter to advanced)

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/totalenglish/

Belgian publishers

1          De Boeck

Stairway to English (4 levels)

http://vrij.uitgeverijdeboeck.be/collections/stairwaytoenglish/

2          Die Keure

Show Your Paces (aso, 4 levels)

http://www.educatief.diekeure.be/educatief/secundair/catalogus/detail.php?uitgaveID=534

Shuffle (aso)

http://www.educatief.diekeure.be/educatief/secundair/catalogus/detail.php?uitgaveID=1665

3          Pelckmans

Technical, vocational

http://www.pelckmans.be/index_leerkracht_SO.asp

Backbone (2 levels for 3^rd and 4^th forms. Basic Backbone for 5^th and 6^th forms with professional supplements Check In (tourism, catering), Tech and Tools (technical), Sharing and Caring (social studies), Business and Commerce and Multimedia (IT)

Touchdown (announced for 2011)

General studies

Spark (5 levels starting in 2009)

http://www.pelckmans.be/index_leerkracht_SO.asp

Transit (5 levels with new editions for upper-intermediate and advanced)

http://www.pelckmans.be/index_leerkracht_SO.asp

Van In

All Aboard

http://www.vanin.be/vanin_master/page.aspx?pid=216#All_Aboard

Technical, vocational

New Breakaway (for 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th forms) and New Takeaway (for 5^th and 6^th forms, 5 levels)

http://www.newbreakaway.be/index.php

High Five (for bso, 3rd and 4th forms)

General studies

Lift-Off! (5 levels)

http://www.vanin.be/vanin_master/page.aspx?pid=216#All_Aboard

Wolters Plantyn

Enter (5 levels)

http://www.woltersplantyn.be/

Technical, vocational

Contact-T (5 levels and extra professional English publications: Science in Society (sciences), Social Matters (social studies), Sports, We mean Business (business studies in May 2009)

http://www.woltersplantyn.be/

General studies

Contact (5 levels with renewed Contact 2)

http://www.woltersplantyn.be/

Some new publications

- KAVANAGH M., English for the Automobile Industry, (Express Series OUP), 2007 (incl. multiROM, Intermediate).

http://www.eflbooks.co.uk/book.php?isbn=9780194579001

- GAIRNS R.; REDMAN S., Oxford Word Skills, (OUP), 2008 (incl. CD-ROM, basic level is published, intermediate and advanced levels are forthcoming, with answer keys).

http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/7140?cc=gb

- HAINES S., Real, (English Skills, CUP), 2008, (Listening and Speaking, Writing en Reading on four levels with CD-ROM and with or without answer keys).

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/englishskills/

PUCHTA H., STRANKS J., More! 4, (CUP), 2008, (4 levels, with CD-ROM)

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2502493

CLARKE S., VINCE M, English Grammar in Context, (Macmillan), 2008), (with CD-ROM and keys), (cross-curricular subject-related, three levels)

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/Course.aspx?id=39920

LEA D., Oxford Learner's Thesaurus, (OUP), 2008, (with CD-ROM).

http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/isbn/0-19-475200-3?cc=gb

WELLS J., KELLY G, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, (Longman, new, 3^rd edition), 2008 (with CD-ROM).

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/lpd3.htm

John Wells (University College London) and Gerald Kelly (Northumbria University) say that it is time to lay Received Pronunciation to rest. Wells’ 2007 Pronunciation Preference Poll provides proof that acceptable pronunciations are changing and that some differences in preferred pronunciation can be attributed partly to the generation gap between the respondents.

Some changes in pronunciation:

Heinle/National Geographic

Reading and vocabulary course for CLIL (5 levels)

http://elt.heinle.com/cgi-telt/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M2b&discipline_number=0&product_isbn_issn=1424029376&from_series_id=1000001602&subject_code=&book=1

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