New Power 5 Intermediate Plus Student's book

This is the fifth level of the New Power series for students that want to develop writing, speaking and listening skills at level B1+. The book contains 15 units, each of which has its own theme. Each unit consists of three parts: Writing, Speaking and Listening.

The WRITING section comprises:

• What do you know?: a short introduction to the theme of the unit
• Presentation: a rubric and model composition with language and word-length appropriate to the level
• Getting organised: a clear plan for the composition, and tasks which show students how to organise their writing
• Language awareness: focuses on appropriate lexical items and grammatical points relevant to the composition
• Getting prepared: practical help to prepare students for the final piece of writing
• Final writing: a rubric similar to the one in the presentation asks students to produce their own letter, story, article, diary entry or email
• How to think: asks students questions about content, language, paragraphing etc for the final writing task
• EXTRA TOPICS: provide students with further writing practice on the theme of the unit. They include messages, accounts, postcards and notes, as well as letters, articles

The SPEAKING section:

• Comprises pair work, group work, individual work, topics for presentations and questions for general discussion based on photographs and ideas related to the theme of the unit
• Contains all the task types found in speaking exams that students at this level will be working towards.

The LISTENING section:

• rounds off each unit with a task or tasks providing practice in the following skills: note taking, picture identification, multiple matching, multiple choice, true/false etc
• contains all the task types found in listening exams that B1+ students will be working towards.