NEW FEATURES From our authors Julia Starr and Martyn Hobbs, RIGHT HERE! is the course to equip your students for the 21st Century. • Motivating, up-to-date themes to get students thinking and talking. • Fresh, easy to use design for effective teaching and learning. • Authentic communication lessons to get students speaking using natural, everyday language. • Thought-provoking graded stories for enjoyable extended reading. • Enriched vocabulary work. • Innovative focus on grammatical accuracy and spoken fluency. • Regular exam practice and tips for the most recent international exams. • Brand new video interviews. • New in-depth Skills Book developing essential skills for life. • The full-colour integrated Workbook includes grammar reference, wordlists, extensive vocabulary and grammar practice, and study skills. • Classroom friendly Starter Books to bring students up to speed. • Plenty of extra digital resources online on helbing-ezone.com Julia Starr Keddle taught English abroad and in the UK for many years. She has written many successful course books with Martyn Hobbs and other materials for young people. Julia is particularly interested in accuracy and fluency, teen development, and developing ‘soft skills’. She loves thinking of new ways to present language and making it relevant, exciting and visually appealing. Favourite saying: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Martyn Hobbs taught English for many years abroad and the UK, and is a prize-winning playwright and screenplay writer. He cowrites course books with Julia Starr Keddle, and has written and developed numerous video projects. He loves writing stories, especially graded readers for learners. He uses his creativity and film-making experience to make his materials involving and fun. Favourite saying: The stories we love best live in us forever. Vox Pops Videos for Viewing Skills Skills for Life FILE FUNCTION EXAMPLE GRAMMAR 1 Talking about quantity There are four cafés at uni. Present continuous 2 Talking about temporary situations I’ve got some olive oil. there is / there are 3 Talking about present activities Mia’s eating ice-cream. How much / many 4 Describing places I do sport twice a week. (Un)countable nouns a / an / some / any 5 Asking about quantity How many pets have they got? Present continuous 6 Talking about frequency He’s doing art this term. per hour / a week / once, etc. 7 Talking about position Chloe is on the bus. prepositions 1 Match the function with the example and the grammar. Key grammar 3&4 From accuracy... Units 3&4 MEXICO CITY is a busy city with a big population. 1___________ a lot of traffic. Are there 2___________ places to breathe fresh air? Yes! On Sunday they close a long, wide road, the Paseo del la Reforma, to cars and lorries. Then inhabitants can enjoy their city without 3___________ traffic once a week. On that day they can walk, run, cycle, roller-skate, walk the dog, dance or just sit and relax right in the middle of our city. The road goes through a large park called Chapultepec Park. There are lots of trees and flowers, birds and animals, a big lake and shady avenues. 4___________ an anthropology Museum, a castle on a hill and a zoo. You can visit the art gallery for free. You can go for a boat ride, listen to concerts or buy 5___________ food and souvenirs at the many market stalls. What 6___________ you doing in the park, today? Share with us! Grammar review WHERE ARE YOU? POLLS COMMENT MEXICO CITY LIVE MEXICO CITY LIVE Hi! We 7___________ running along the avenue now. We meet up once a week, put on our running shoes and keep fit. I love it. DANIEL I’m visiting the modern art gallery. But I’m 8___________ looking at pictures, I’m walking around the sculpture park. They 9___________ keeping the park tidy even on Sunday. Thanks, gardeners! PATRICIA My mate Rafael and I 10___________ skateboarding today. Sunday on the Paseo is fantastic. 11___________ any cars and there isn’t 12___________ noise. We go about twice a month. TOM We’re on vacation here. At the moment, I’m having a milk shake. My girlfriend 13_________ choosing a hat from a market stall. How 14_________ hats is she trying? A lot! RYAN A not-so-lazy Sunday on the Avenida Paseo de la Reforma My mum and dad and I 15___________ renting some bikes. It’s so nice because 16___________ any danger from cars. And there are lots of things to see. GLORIA We’re four friends from the same class and we’re having lots of fun. Can you guess what we are doing? We are moving, but we 17___________ running or cycling. We are on water. Yes, we’re boating on the lake! SILVIA My family are having a picnic. It’s so relaxing. There are 18___________ people playing football and we’re listening to music. A live band 19___________ playing under the trees. But we don’t have 20___________ extra sandwiches for the squirrels and birds. Sorry, guys! ROBERTO 44 FRPLUS_027-046_ICONS.indd 44 22/10/18 09:15 Key Grammar: from Accuracy to Fluency Key grammar starts with attention to correct use of all the core grammar, and ends with generative fluency activities to give students a sense of achievement. Exciting Vox Pops interviews, with over 30 inspiring young speakers. Guides students towards better language skills and soft skills for life.
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