Textbook for middle school students.

Loosecannon · Post by **Loosecannon** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:58 am

Hi. Can anyone suggest a textbook for Korean public middle school students after-school program?
35 students per class.
Their level is probably slightly higher than the average Korean middle school student. I'm not sure how to assess their level yet either.

Thanks

EnglishRaven · Post by **EnglishRaven** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:37 pm

Try the Boost! Integrated Skills Series from Pearson Longman.

There are 20 books in the series, four levels, divided into 5 strands: reading, writing, listening, speaking and grammar.

They were made especially for the 10-15 age groups, for students who already have 3-6 years English language learning experience.

http://www.boostskillsseries.com

Good luck!

trubadour · Post by **trubadour** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:15 pm

I suggest the MEGA series from Macmillian. It works really well as a self contained source of everything you need, such as communicative activities, vocab, grammar things, and features a kind of interesting narrative about some students and their lives.

It's simple to use, relevant, up to date, focuses on communication and deals with diverse pronunciations, introduces cultures, etc. Plus, it has some easy activities which everyone can do and which are good for keeping things ticking along while also contianing more advanced stuff for the better students. I'd rate it for Korean teenagers of all abilities. It's the best one I've used.

URL: (not much info though) http://www.macmillaneducation.com/catal ... n/mega.htm

rusmeister · Post by **rusmeister** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:51 pm

trubadour wrote:I suggest the MEGA series from Macmillian. It works really well as a self contained source of everything you need, such as communicative activities, vocab, grammar things, and features a kind of interesting narrative about some students and their lives.

It's simple to use, relevant, up to date, focuses on communication and deals with diverse pronunciations, introduces cultures, etc. Plus, it has some easy activities which everyone can do and which are good for keeping things ticking along while also contianing more advanced stuff for the better students. I'd rate it for Korean teenagers of all abilities. It's the best one I've used.

URL: (not much info though) http://www.macmillaneducation.com/catal ... n/mega.htm

All the stuff I've seen from Macmillan is quite primitive - unrelated activities with poor skill-building from unit to unit and level to level.