An exam preparation course for students who will sit an external exam, providing a carefully staged approach and offering expertise in exam preparation. Optimise helps students understand how certain exam tasks are designed, what they are testing, and how to ensure they get the best possible marks as well as improving their overall language level.
Components:
Student's Book Pack
• Printed Student's Books with access to the Student's Resource Centre
Student's Book Premium Pack
• Printed Student's Book with access to the Online Workbook, Student's eBook and Student's Resource Centre
• The Optimise Your Exam section brings together exam strategies for each skill and provides further advice for students to do their best under exam conditions
• Speaking Test videos allow students to analyse other students' performance and provide valuable tips to enhance their own performance
Teacher's Book Premium Pack
• Print Teacher's Book, with access code to the Teacher's Resource Centre, the place to download resources to use in the classroom or assign for homework
• Test Generator to create and customise skills and language based tests in minutes
• Presentation Kit is the IWB version of the Optimise Student's Book
• Online Workbook instantly marks students' work, sends feedback to them and reports the results to you
Malcolm Mann is an English language teacher and materials writer. He is the co-author of numerous ELT courses, including the Laser and Destination series (both published by Macmillan), and regularly gives webinars and presentations to teachers all round the world. He's currently working on a major new coursebook series for Macmillan. Malcolm lives and works in Greece, where he holds joint responsibility for the production of the L.A.A.S. English language exams. He is a former Chairperson of TESOL Greece. In his spare time, he's a partner in a bike shop and a cafe/bar in Athens. Steve Taylore-Knowles has spent over 20 years in ELT as a writer, a teacher trainer, an examiner and a teacher. He has created a number of best-selling multi-level courses, including Open Mind (Macmillan, 2014-15), which incorporates life skills as an integral part of the course, and Laser (Macmillan, 2013), an exam preparation series for teenagers. His work has taken him to over thirty countries and he regularly speaks at events throughout the world on various aspects of English language teaching and learning. Having spent a number of years teaching abroad, including two years on the board of TESOL Greece, Steve is now based in his native county of Lancashire in the north of England, where he lives with wife Jo and young daughter Scout.
