Raising the Bar 5 Express : the answer for your advanced students

Includes:

• Student - Digital version of the Activity Book (12 months)
• Student - Online exercises (12 months)

Digital components that offer students even more interactivity!

The digital set for students comes with the print Activity Book and includes

• the digital version of the Activity Book
• audio and video clips
• online exercises
• teaching demos on how to deconstruct a feature article 

Challenge your Secondary 5 advanced students with Raising the Bar 5 Express , which offers inspiring content in a compact format so you still have time to use your own materials.

Raising the Bar 5 Express goes beyond regular content by challenging students to apply critical thinking skills and to understand abstract ideas and complex issues.

As students do activities and tasks, they develop speaking and writing fluency by

• increasing their grammatical accuracy;
• using richer and more idiomatic vocabulary.

They use critical thinking while

• synthesizing information from several texts;
• deconstructing different types of texts, including essays, a short story and a feature article. 

Based on the MEES Program and the Progression of Learning

All activities and tasks are designed to develop key competencies and skills as specified in the EESL program and to help students with grammatical accuracy, idiomatic vocabulary, synthesizing texts, deconstructing feature articles and more. 

Engaging themes 

High-interest themes, such as Gothic Horror and Utopia, motivate both male and female students and provide a great springboard for discussions.

Topics and texts that develop critical thinking

The Synthesis section and deconstruction tasks encourage students to think critically about reading/listening/watching texts and to apply critical thinking in their final writing task. 

• Raising the Bar Express 5 -Table of Contents

• Raising the Bar Express 5 - Excerpt

• Raising the Bar Express - Unit Structure

Sonia Egron has been teaching ESL for 17 years and is currently a teacher at the Collège International Marie de France in Montreal, Canada. She has been authoring ESL material since 2012. Sonia is co-author of the enriched ESL textbook Raising the Bar 5, published in 2013, the ESL textbook On Track 3 published in 2018, as well as the ELT textbook Connections 1 published in 2022. She has also authored material used by the University of Ottawa for a special ESL teaching project in Haiti. She has an MA in curriculum development from McGill University.

Cara Webb has taught ESL and EESL at the secondary level for over ten years. She is co-author of the Break Away series, the Express Yourself Plus series, Express Yourself for Secondary 4 and Finishing Touch.

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