B1+
Integrated Learning and Assessment A seamless integration of learning and assessment blends language, skills, and exam practice, ensuring students’ confidence in exam success.
Download a sample
Sample Unit Level 1
Sample Unit Level 3
Show me what’s special about Make Your Point
© 2026 Cambridge University Press & Assessment
MAKE YOUR POINT is the innovative Cambridge course that combines thought-provoking topics and crucial life skills with essential language and exam practice. It unlocks students' potential at upper-secondary level, ensuring exam success and beyond!
1
The four fundamental pillars of Make Your Point
Sample Unit Level 2
Explore a digital demo (registration required)
TO
B2
A seamless integration of learning and assessment blends language, skills, and exam practice, ensuring students’ confidence in exam success.
Global Citizenship
The emphasis on Global Citizenship, supported by Sustainability Agenda 2030 goals, helps students become more active learners and prepares them for their next academic career and life beyond.
Life Competencies
Are the skills students need in order to play an active role in society and to reach their full potential. They are not strictly language skills, but a student-centred language lesson always integrates opportunities to develop these competencies. Cambridge has created the Life Competencies Framework to map some of the important life skills that students can develop as they learn a language.
Critical Thinking
Students develop critical thinking skills through reading tasks that explore different perspectives, helping them learn to evaluate arguments, express ideas clearly, and consider diverse viewpoints. As the demand for critical thinking increases in academic and professional settings, integrating it into the curriculum equips students with essential skills for bothpresent and future success.
2
3
4
Take me through a unit of Make Your Point
Home
Why Make Your Point
Unit Walkthrough
Components
Scroll down to discover for what Make Your Point is special!
Key Competencies
Make Your Point has been designed to offer opportunities for the development of all eight Key competencies throughout the course, based on the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework, which clearly defines those found in the curriculum.
These feature a sequence of activities that focus on developing digital competence, equipping students with the technological know-how and responsible digital practices needed to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.
Citizenship Projects
All the competencies in the framework are developed in this course, with a more specific focus on tasks that build Critical thinking and Creative thinking skills.
Each unit culminates in a Mini Project, which links to a Learning Situation. The Learning Situation gives students the opportunity to use the language and skills that they have gained during the unit in a creative context and encourages them to work together to produce and present a visual outcome.
The treatment of competencies in Glow Up! is based on the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework which clearly defines those found in the curriculum.
A Mediation lesson is included after every two units in Levels 1 and 2, and a Learning to Learn lesson in Levels 3 and 4. These lessons give students an opportunity to explore communication skills and study skills in greater depth, respectively.
Throughout the units, learning is designed to work effectively for both the more- and less-confident students. Ready-made fast finisher activities are included for each unit, and downloadable Grammar and Vocabulary Practice worksheets provide opportunity for further consolidation in class.
Audio scripts, video scripts and Cambridge English Qualifications practice tests are supplied in a standard and accessible format to cater to different learning styles and to ensure that everyone can participate fully in the learning process.
The book is designed with a clean and modern layout that is easy to navigate. We have used high contrast colours and accessible fonts to increase text readability. Additionally, the layout is structured to be intuitive, so learners can easily find the information they need.
The University Entrance Exam Test Generator provides all the new PAU exam practice that students will need for their region. Teachers can download ready-made exams in pdf and word format, and fully customisable tests are also available.
University Entrance Test Generator
Assessment and learning work together in Make Your Point to help teachers and students get the most out of every moment of learning. It combines the use of teaching, learning and assessment methods to plan, measure, and improve learners’ outcomes, empowering students and teachers to understand and unlock the learning process.
Integrated Learning and Assessment
Sustainability
A complete digital toolkit with everything in one place on Cambridge One. The online Teacher’s Resources includes additional practice worksheets, and the Test Generator provides customisable progress tests.
Course components
Show me the Unit Walkthrough
Show me the course components
Let’s have a look at Unit 7 from Make Your Point Level 1
Key Competencies are embedded naturally into the tasks, allowing students to reinforce new language while developing lifelong learning skills.
These lessons also offer helpful tips and strategies to boost students’ reading skills, empowering them to tackle academic texts with confidence.
Videos which feature in the unit are displayed on the opening page.
Language aims are clearly shown. The aims identify language functions, skills, and Learning Situation outcomes. Key competencies in the unit are highlighted here.
Each unit opens with a captivating image that sparks curiosity and invites students to explore the topic through discussion.
Tips on the differences between British and American English are included.
Students are engaged by a striking opening image and video with tasks that personalise the topic and activate their existing knowledge.
Get it right boxes throughout the units highlight common grammar mistakes made by Spanish-speaking learners.
The first vocabulary page develops lexis related to the unit theme and special attention is given to False Friends, with additional guidance on Vocabulary Extension through word-formation strategies.
Each double-page concludes with discussion prompts related to the text, aimed at enhancing students’ critical thinking abilities.
The first grammar point in each unit is presented with examples in a Grammar Box that come from the first video in the unit. Consequently, the students will have already heard the new grammar in context.
This Listening page is designed to help students develop the skills and strategies that are applicable to any exam or real-life listening context.
The Speaking page explores a range of language functions. Students are presented with a model text and are guided to pick out phrases characteristic of the target function highlighted in the Useful Language box.
This lesson also includes a Real English video that connects to the unit’s theme and reinforces the speaking focus.
An activity to develop Mediation skills will appear once in each unit in either the Listening or Writing.
The second vocabulary lesson builds on the words highlighted in the reading text, offering a set that includes varied parts of speech and phrasal verbs.
The Aim Higher box appears in the second grammar lesson and is designed to encourage students to advance their grammatical range and confidence.
The lesson then guides them through scaffolded tasks that develop ideas, organise content, and lead to a final writing output.
Additionally, it includes a feature that links to a Citizenship Project highlighting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) themes.
The Citizenship Projects feature a sequence of activities that focus on developing digital competence, equipping students with the technological know-how and responsible digital practices needed to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.
Every odd-numbered unit ends with a Focus on Culture lesson that combines a documentary video and a reading text to explore different dimensions of a shared cultural topic.
Everything you need for effective learning
Student’s Book with Interactive eBook
Comes with access to the Interactive Student's eBook. It also includes Culture Projects.
Workbook with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
The Teacher's Book includes a code with access to everything that learners can see, plus: > Presentation Plus > Test Generator > Teacher Resources > University Entrance Exam Generator
Access the Student's Digital Pack with: > Interactive Workbook > Linguaskill Digital Practice Test 1
For a fully digital class with complete tracking, you can also use the Digital Student’s Book and Workbook. These books can be used on BlinkLearning or Cambridge One.
Digital Student’s Book and Workbook
