Power Up builds on the success of the international edition to meet the specific needs of learners and teachers in the Middle East. The course features and integrates both local and international cultures to enhance learning in a balanced way. Power Up is enhanced with Digital Packs and Advanced Assessment Tools to support teachers and learners, now all in one place in our new learning environment, Cambridge One.
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Power Up
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Six level, Primary course
British English
200 teaching hours, extendable to 320 hours
Complete Beginner to Pre-Intermediate
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- Introduction
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- Life Competencies
- Learning Journey
- Digital Tools
- Full Teacher Support
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Key Features
Life Competencies
Learning Journey
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Teacher's Success
You spoke. We Listened.
We’ve listened to teachers around the Middle East and designed Power Up to meet the needs of learners and teachers. New fiction and non-fiction texts and updated audio visual materials offer children ample opportunity to identify with content closer to home.
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“I want my students to feel that they belong to the world; learning English with confidence." - Mariam, Jordan
Key Insights
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Foster collaboration through real-world ‘missions’, multi-stage projects set in real-life contexts that run from the start to the end of every unit to develop collaboration skills and enable learners to visualise their progress.
Kahoot!
Exam preparation and practice are naturally embedded in every unit to familiarise learners with activity structures, task types and strategies to complete exams successfully.
Literature pages develop social and emotional competencies following the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework.
Animations, documentaries and audio recordings enhance language presentation and practice, and cross-curricular lessons.
The course that grows with students and provides a bridge to Secondary with a more regional-focused design, topics and learning strategies.
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The Cambridge Life Competencies Framework
In response to this question, we have developed a framework which helps teachers recognise and assess the many transferable skills that the course develops.
How can we help our students develop transferable skills to enable them to work with people from around the world, to think creatively, to analyse sources critically and communicate effectively?
Competency
Communication
Collaboration
Learning to Learn
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Social Responsibilities
Taking control of your own learning
Practical skills for participating in learning
Reflecting on and evaluating own learning success
Core Area
Takes effective notes in class and from homework reading
Uses a vocabulary notebook
Uses metacognitive strategies (e.g. time management, affective control) to maximise learning/exam success
Can Do Statements
The framework maps out a comprehensive set of skills students need to become a successful, global citizen.
Although Own it! focuses on the Learning to Learn and Collaboration competencies, all competencies are explored throughout the course
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5. Digital tools – all in one place
6. Full teacher support
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THINKING AND LEARNING SKILLS
Power Up Special Edition offers opportunities to develop the children’s competencies relevant to their age.
Power Up is the first English course to incorporate the Cambridge Framework for Life Competencies. The Framework examines social, emotional and cognitive skills at different stages of the learning journey.
Participating in creative activities
Creating new content – from own ideas or other resources
Discovering & expressing own personal identity and feelings through creative activities
Understanding links between ideas
Evaluating texts, ideas and arguments
Synthesizing ideas and information
Critical thinking
Identifying and prioritising problems to be addressed
Evaluating options
Asking effective questions
Using digital and online tools
Following safe online practices – to protect yourself and your school
Behaving appropriately to others online – ‘netiquette’
Digital literacy
Practical skills for participating in learning –
Showing a positive mindset for learning (English)
Learning to learn
Identifying and articulating learning goals
Identifying and using effective learning techniques
Seeking help from other people or resources
Making notes, storing & retrieving information
Preparing for and taking exams
SOCIAL SKILLLS
Although Power Up Special Edition! focuses on the social, emotional and cognitive competencies, all competencies are explored throughout the course
Using appropriate language/register for context
Managing conversations
Overcoming own language gaps
Taking turns in shared activities
Listening to and respecting others’ contributions
Sharing ideas
Taking personal responsibility for own contributions to a group task
Managing the sharing of tasks in a project
Evaluating and responding constructively to others’ contributions or activities
Identifying and talking about own emotions
Managing own emotions
Empathy & relationship skills: recognising & responding appropriately to other children's emotional state
Emotional development
Understanding personal responsibilities as part of a group and in society – including citizenship
Behaving consistently with personal and social responsibilities
Showing leadership skills
Social responsibilities
Understanding and describing own culture
Understanding and respecting how other cultures can differ
Understanding and discussing global issues - environmental, political, financial and social
Understanding & managing career development options and techniques
Participating with appropriate confidence & clarity
Supporting others to communicate successfully
The Learning Journey
Collaborative learning and language competency.
“I want my students to feel that they belong to the world; learning English with confidence." - Mariam, Saudi Arabia
1. Practical skills for participating in learning
2. Taking control of their own learning
3. Reflecting on and evaluating their own success
Social and emotional development
Learners are asked to identify the emotions that the characters in the stories experience and their own emotional response to it. The Literature feature of the course helps students become more independent by introducing them to vital learning strategies and techniques.
Exam preparation and practice are naturally embedded in every unit to familiarise learners with activity structures, tasks types and strategies to complete exams successfully.
This literature spread is seen in each unit of the course from level 1. It fosters a love of literature, practises a variety of reading skills and embraces social and emotional learning.
Videos support language learning
Research proves that teachers and learners love audio visual material both as a learning aid and to motivate learners, therefore video is an integral part of each unit. A unit opener video to introduce the unit topic, activate prior knowledge and help establish both class and individual learning objectives.
A unit opener video to introduce the unit topic, activate prior knowledge and help establish both class and individual learning objectives
A Listen and correct feature is integrated in to broad areas of learner training and are all fully aligned to the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework..
Collaborative Learning
Collaborative real-life activities, prepared in stages, open and close every unit. After each stage the learners reflect on their learning and do a self-evaluation in the Activity Book. As they complete each stage they tick off the check list to see their progress.
Cross-curricular learning
Cross-curricular lessons focus on the language needed to understand natural and social sciences and to complete the unit Mission. Documentary-style videos extend the topic as children broaden their knowledge of subjects, countries and cultures around the world.
Power Up has been developed with a new, integrated approach to the Cambridge Exams. Learners are gently introduced to exam-style tasks.
Natural integration of Exams
Power Up your classroom with all the support you need. - First, the exam tasks are broken down in the Pupil’s Book into discrete micro skills. - Then, the exam tasks are practised in full in the Activity Book. - Finally, the full exam papers are practiced with tests available in the Test Generator. - Test Generator contains customizable Unit Tests and End of Term Tests at different levels as well as Cambridge Young Learners suite, A2 Key and B1 Preliminary for Schools practice tests.
Through a unique partnership between Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press, Power Up is the first programme to naturally integrate exam preparation and formative assessment in a fun and effective English course.
Through a unique partnership between Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press, Power Up Special Edition naturally integrate exam preparation and formative assessment in a fun and effective English course.
Digital Package
Digital tools – all in one place
Each unit of Power Up is mapped to a component within the Cambridge Life Competencies to ensure a wide range of skills are covered.
Presentation Plus The software is available both online and offline and enables teachers to present the Student’s Book and Workbook with interactive exercises and games.
Teacher’s Resource Bank Online Resources featuring extra language and skills practice worksheets. It includes all video and audio files and audio scripts.
Downloadable Test Generator from Cambridge One website This a digital test tool that helps teachers create unit tests, review tests and end of level tests. For every test teachers can select ready made tests or select the questions from the bank and create their own unique tests. All tests are downloadable with model answers and audio files for the listening section.
Power Up Special Edition employs a systematic approach to language learning in which the learner and the teacher are in partnership. The opening page shows the Learning outcomes, which is what we hope to achieve with the learners over the lesson. The next section highlights the examples of self-assessment activities that can be done.
Teachers Edition
Teacher’s Edition offers key information about the Power Up Special Edition approach, its components, and how to combine both to meet your needs. Practical techniques for the classroom and after class. Step by step lesson and activity guide, including warm-ups, differentiated pace for fast and slow finishers.
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1. Lessons build the skills learners need to face life’s journey with confidence
2. Collaborative Missions and embedded assessment practice help prepare young learners for exams
3. Spark the cognitive and social competencies to achieve success.
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Teacher's Edition
The interleaved Teacher's Edition includes easy-to-follow lesson plans for every unit.
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Teaching tips address common problem areas for students and additional suggestions for expansion activities and building community.
Additional practice material across all Ventures components is clearly organized in the More Ventures chart at the end of each lesson.
Help students improve digital literacy by utilizing their own technology to enhance their learning. Ventures has an array of digital resources that encourage students to use technology to advance their learning in and out of the classroom.
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QR Codes for Audio and Video Ventures puts audio and video resources in your hands. With QR codes on the page, you and your students can access class audio and animated grammar videos on any mobile device
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Online Workbook Self-grading Online Workbook with instant feedback helps learners understand their problem areas. Teachers can track time-on-task and check students’ progress with just a few clicks.
Ventures Arcade The Ventures Arcade is a free website where students can find additional practice and prepare for the Citizenship exam.
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Allow your students to expand their learning in class or remotely with Kahoot! quizzes built for Ventures. A quiz based on listening and grammar is available for every unit.
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Ventures Online Teacher Resources offer hundreds of additional worksheets and classroom materials.
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Career and Educational Pathways Worksheets Help students meet their post-exit employment goals
Collaborative Worksheets Written for each lesson, these worksheets help develop cooperative learning and community building within the classroom
Writing Worksheets Help literacy-level students recognize shapes and write letters and numbers. Alphabet and number cards promote partner and group work
Picture Dictionary Flashcards and Worksheets These tools reinforce vocabulary learned throughout the series.
Multilevel Worksheets that are designed for use in multilevel classrooms and in classes where the proficiency level of students differs
Self-assessments Support learner persistence and give students an opportunity to reflect on their learning to help them determine whether they are ready for the unit test
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Project Unit projects extend students' learning into real-world context. They work within the unit topic, but they also go beyond the Student's Book.
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Presentation Plus allows you to share the Student's Book pages along with all the resources, such as audio and video, in a face-to-face or remote classrooms.
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Audio & Video Hotspots
Answer Key
Spotlight
Click on the Answer Key icon to display the answers for your students to see.
Simply click the QR code to play audio and the Grammar Presentation videos.
Provides all the resources needed in one place, to digitally transform Ventures into a truly interactive classroom.
There are a variety of tools such as pens, highlighters, spotlight to focus on certain activities, and attachments to help enhance your teaching.
Complete with a Facilitator Guide and Worksheets, this series of videos is perfect for beginning to mid-career teachers. Videos follow real teachers putting their best practices to work in real classrooms.
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Each unit of the Student's Book features six skill-focused lessons.
Our lesson sequencing is key to student success.
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LESSON D
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Focuses students on the unit topic using visuals to assess student’s prior knowledge and serves as prompt for key vocabulary.
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Audio accessed using QR codes for use in class or independent review
Presents grammar point in a chart form, followed by exercises to check comprehension and provide guided practice. Communicate exercises guide learners as they generate original answers and conversations.
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Grammar Presentation videos to watch on mobile devices using QR codes allow for self-directed learning and develop digital literacy
Additional activities ensure students have the chance to practice more grammar to meet the rigor of CCR standards
Develops reading skills and expands vocabulary while bringing text complexity into the classroom to help students read independently and proficiently. Lesson combines reading with writing and listening practice for an integrated approach to ensure better comprehension.
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College and Career Readiness Worksheets extends each Reading lesson with additional reading, critical thinking and academic vocabulary building.
Provides practice with process writing within the context of the unit. Before you write exercises provide warm-up activities to activate the language needed for the writing assignment, followed by one or more exercises that provide a model for students to follow when they write. A Writing tip presents information about punctuation or paragraph organization directly related to the writing assignment. The Write exercise sets goals for the student writing. In the After you write exercise, students share with a partner.
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Purposeful writing practice helps students meet the challenges of work and the classroom.
Easy-to-follow tips help students avoid common mistakes, improving their confidence.
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Brings the unit together with opportunities to review lesson content while practicing skimming to read real-life documents, developing test-taking skills, and building critical thinking and soft-skills.
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Practice explicit real-life skills using authentic document types builds document literacy.
Prepares students for standardized tests by familiarizing them with bubble answer format.
Covers critical thinking and soft skills, crucial for workplace readiness, and helps students meet WIOA requirements through problem-solving activities.
Grammar connections contrasts grammar points and includes guided practice and communicative activities.
Recycle and reinforce the listening, vocabulary, and grammar skills developed in the two prior units and include a pronunciation activity.
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Brings the unit together with opportunities to review lesson content.
Life-skills reading develops the scanning and skimming skills used with documents such as forms, charts, and schedules.
