Gold Experience

2nd Edition

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What makes Gold Experience 2nd Edition
great?
• Gold Experience 2nd Edition is an exam prep course that builds language
skills and a general English course that prepares teens for exams.

• Media-rich material engages and challenges teens, promoting critical

thinking and debate as well as creativity. Teens like it, so teachers do
too.

• Videos expose teens to authentic language, authentic accents and real

people, issues and broadcasting.

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What’s new in the 2nd Edition?
• Three new levels to create an eight-level course: A1 to C1

• Nine core units + review unit, down from 12 for a better fit with the
academic calendar

• A new independent learning strand, and more 21st century skills focus

• Improved language input (aiding lesson flow and additional practice)

• New lead-in pages as a warm-up to the unit topic (and a unit overview)

• Editable presentations for grammar points

• Improved assessment pack

• Fresh new design

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Components
Students
• Student’s Book
• Student’s eBook*
• Workbook
• Online Homework*
• Student’s App*

Teachers
• Teacher’s Book
• Teacher’s Resource Book
• Presentation Tool*
• Digital Resources*
• Class audio CDs

* Names to be confirmed
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Components & Packs
Print/Physical component
Digital component

Students
• Student’s Book + App
• Student’s Book + Online Practice* + App
• Student’s eBook* + App
• Student’s eBook* + Online Practice* + App
• Workbook
• Online Homework*

Teachers
• Teacher’s Book + Presentation Tool* + Digital Resources*
• Presentation Tool* + Digital Resources*
• Teacher’s Resource Book
• Class audio CDs

* Names to be confirmed
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Levels

A1 (2019) A2 (2019) A2+ (2019) B1 (2019)

B1+ (2019) B2 (2018) B2+ (2018) C1 (2018)

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Gold Experience 2nd Edition’s
approach to…
Exam preparation
• Gives realistic exam practice of tasks for each
exam paper in every core unit
• Builds exam strategies through scaffolded core
activities and exam tips
• Builds students’ confidence in English with
frequent opportunities for discussion
• Unit 10 in the Students’ Book provides revision
• Unit 10 in the Workbook is a practice exam
Engaging teens
• Topics and texts cover subjects teens are
interested in or make them think about the world.
• Learners discuss topics without judgment, a real
reason to talk to each other.
• A variety of fun and quirky material mixed with
more weighty topics.
• A different teen reviewer was involved in the
creation of each level helping the course speak to
teens at their level, and not patronise them.
• Fresh, appealing design and multimedia-rich.
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Building language skills
• The syllabus is built around the core grammatical
and lexico-grammatical language for the exam.
• Improved language input, with additional practice.
• Focus on chunks of language makes learning more
coherent and student output more natural.
• Workbook vocabulary extension builds language.
• Reflective approach (upper levels) prompts
students to realise what they know and build on it.
Whole student development
• Builds 21st century skills with opportunities for
critical thinking and debating topics.
• Projects at the end of each units, where learners
are required to carry out research and collaborate.
• The structure of the course gives teachers
flexibility in how to run classes.
• Authentic TV clips and filmed interviews expose
students to different real people and accents.
• Helps students prepare for life after school e.g. CV
writing, university etc (upper levels).
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 Unit Walkthrough
(Example: C1 Unit 5)

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 Note: not final proof

The new Lead-in page has a

thought-provoking photo and
quote, as well as discussion
questions to get students
thinking about the unit topic,
and using their existing topic
vocabulary.

The unit overview gives

teachers and students a brief
outline of the unit’s topics, key
language, skills focus and exam
tasks.
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Power up sections get
students thinking about
the lesson topic.

• Reading sections begin with a

gist task to help students
understand overall meaning.

The main reading text

• Exam tasks are easily identified previews grammar
by the e symbol. that students will meet
• Exam skills and strategies are in the next lesson.
built up through both core
activities and exam tips, with
less support in later units.

The vocabulary activity

encourages students to notice
and absorb vocabulary they
find in the text.

Sum up sections require students to

think about the text as a whole.

Speak up sections develop

critical thinking, asking
students to think more deeply
about the topic, and provides
extra speaking practice.

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Editable PowerPoint
presentations are provided for
each core grammar area, saving
teachers valuable time. See
Teacher’s Resources for detail.
Language is Vocabulary sections focus on
contextualised either expanding vocabulary to allow
in authentic question- students to express ideas more
and-answer vox-pop precisely, and more naturally.
interviews or scripted
conversations. Vox-
pops are provided as
both audio and video.

Active grammar A listening task

box requires provides context for
students to engage the vocabulary.
with the grammar
There are frequent
in some way.
opportunities for
personalisation and
discussion using
At upper levels,
Text-based activity new vocabulary.
students reflect
provides interest and
on language they
discussion opportunities,
already know and
as well as grammar
think about more
practice.
nuanced usage.
The explore language
box provides explanation
and examples of key
Speak up provides an lexico-grammatical areas.
opportunity for students
to use the key language
in discussion.
In upper levels, the
vocabulary extension
section in the back of
the book and Workbook
provides even more
useful vocabulary.
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 Each Use of English lesson focuses on language
All audioscripts are in that is often tested in the CAE exam. The first
the back of the book. lesson focuses on more lexical topics, the second
lesson on more grammatical topics.
Power up sections get
students thinking about
the lesson topic.

• Exam-style tasks
provide further practice
of the language point
• Exam skills and strategies are (usually, around 50% of
built up through both core the questions), and
activities and exam tips, with Common show students how it
less support in later units. examples of will be useful in the
• Where important, task lay-out is the language exam.
the same as in the exam. are practised • As in other lessons,
• Exam tasks are easily identified on the page. skills and strategies
by the e symbol. Further are built up through
examples both core activities and
appear in the exam tips, and Exam
Extend tasks are identified by
vocabulary the e symbol.
section at the
back of the
book.

Speak up sections allow students to

develop their own reaction to the text,
use the language, practise speaking
and are fun.

The Vocabulary activity

encourages students to notice
Most spreads include a fun footer. Loosely connected to the topic, these can
and absorb vocabulary they find
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in the audio.
 Speaking pages in upper levels
focus on exam tasks.

• Language is
presented in context
through audio.
• Students look at the
script at the back of
the book to pull out
language Students approach the
exam task step by step.
They:
• listen to and analyse
a model answer
• pull out useful Speaking extra provides
The lesson begins and language. more general speaking
ends with speaking • work on strategies, practice on the topic.
tasks: first as a topic then attempt the task
warm-up, and last as themselves.
an opportunity to
react to the text in a
personal way, and use
the key language.

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 Write on walks students
through planning and
Power up gets
writing their own answer.
students thinking
about the topic and
generating ideas.

Exercises break down how to

make an argument in writing,
something many students
struggle with in their own
language.

Plan on asks students to:

• analyse the exam task,
with tasks and tips to
help them, e.g.
understand the genre;
look at model answer
• work on appropriate
language.

The new Improve it section

encourages students to assess
their own (and sometimes
others’) work and consider how
they could improve it.
Useful language boxes provide
language options for a specific
function.

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The Switch on video
lesson uses authentic
clips on a variety of Unit check provides two pages
engaging and thought- reviewing the unit language.
provoking topics.

Wordlist includes all the

Activities move from gist
to closer watching to
general discussion
questions.
explicitly taught vocabulary
Independent learning from the unit. (The digital
sections build over the component has accompanying
nine core units to help audio.)
students reflect on their
own learning. They
consider various aspects
of feedback and how
this can help them in the
different areas of their
English learning.
There are usually three
sections: self-reflection,
peer reflection and Practice activities refer
setting goals. students back to the wordlist to
help ensure that they review all
taught vocabulary.

The video leads into a

project involving research,
collaboration, critical
thinking and creativity.
The projects are designed to
be flexible, and allow for
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The second page of Unit Check
reviews grammar and Use of
English from the unit.
Each activity reviews only one
or two language areas to help
students identify where they
need remediation.
The final task is usually a Use of
English-style activity.

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