Helping Students Make Their Way in the World

English for 21st century learners

Help your students learn the language they need to communicate in their personal, academic, and work lives in the 21st century, while building their collaborative and critical thinking skills.

StartUp is the new general English course for adults and young adults who want to make their way in the world and need English to do it. 

This innovative eight-level, multi-skills course is a complete language program. It motivates 21st century learners with relevant and media-rich content and provides teachers with robust support to make teaching personalisable and easy. 

Motivating and relevant learning

Immerse your students in an innovative world of interactive activities and a wide range of videos: grammar and pronunciation coaches, humorous character-based conversation videos, and high-interest talks.

Access at your fingertips

Access StartUp anytime, anywhere with vocabulary, grammar, listening and conversation activities on the go with the Pearson Practice English App. Listen to or watch all the audio and video whenever and wherever you want.

MyEnglishLab

Get Connected > Practise > Succeed
MyEnglishLab offers students further practice as they work through the coursebook.

StartUp ’s video program

StartUp is a video-rich course, with all videos integrated into the units to model language, present information and help make your classes more engaging for both your students and you:

• humorous and interesting character-driven conversation videos throughout each unit
• media project videos in Levels 1-4 and presentation skills videos in Levels 5-8
• Grammar Coach videos , Pronunciation Coach videos in Levels 1-4 and TED-Talk style videos in Levels 5-8

​Dr. Ken Beatty, TESOL Professor at Anaheim University, has worked in schools and universities in Canada, Asia and the Middle East and lectured widely on language teaching and learning from the primary through university levels. He is author of 130+ textbooks, including six books in the Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) series. He has led more than 300 teacher-training sessions in 31 countries and given more than 100 conference presentations.