시리즈 소개

Student Book
Building Community
Each Ventures Student's Book is based on high-interest topics that reinforce the vocabulary and language your students need in their daily lives. Each of the Student's Books contains the same real-life unit themes: Personal information, At school, Friends and family, Health, Around Town, Time, Shopping, Work, Leisure, and Daily living. Review units focus on listening, grammar, and pronunciation.

The lessons in the Ventures Student's Book include:
Vocabulary - The opening picture at the beginning of every unit activates prior knowledge and introduces new vocabulary. The Picture Dictionary, in Levels 1, 2 and Basic, as well as the reading vocabulary activities, in Books 3 and 4, expand upon the topic, adding additional thematic vocabulary.
Grammar - The visual format of Ventures introduces grammar in small, accessible chunks. The two grammar lessons in each unit are unique because the grammar presented is selected to support the needs of the unit language.

Listening & Speaking - The listening and speaking exercises give students an opportunity to develop listening skills. The unit builds toward communicative activities.

Reading - Each Ventures reading has a reading strategy or skill connected to it. Ventures offers reading tips to make students better readers.

Writing - Ventures teaches students how to write through a guided-process approach. This includes prewriting, writing, and peer review. Ventures focuses on prewriting tasks, which lower students' anxiety about writing in English. In addition, writing for peer review creates a real-life context with accountability.

Document Literacy - Ventures teaches life skills with a focus on community, family, and work.

Self-assessment - At the end of each unit, students are given an opportunity for both
peer- and self-assessment.

Review - The review units focus on listening, grammar, and pronunciation.

Workbook
The Ventures Workbook supports the Student's Book with two pages of written practice and reinforcement exercises for each lesson. The Workbook contains document literacy exercises, as well as skill-building through reading, writing, and grammar. Ventures breaks the mold by offering students both grammar charts and answer keys in the back of the Workbook.

Audio Program
The Class Audio CDs/Cassettes include conversations, grammar practice, readings, picture dictionary vocabulary, and pronunciation material from the Student's Book.

Teacher's Edition
Ventures continues the Cambridge tradition of excellent teacher support materials. Our comprehensive Teacher's Edition offers a solid pedagogical approach to the material in each unit and is designed to support every teacher, from the novice to the experienced. The Teacher's Edition offers teaching tips, learner persistence strategies, cultural information, guidance on how to expand a one-hour lesson into a two- or three-hour lesson, and community building activities.

Teacher's Toolkit Audio CD/CD-ROM
The Teacher's Toolkit Audio CD/CD-ROM, with additional classroom materials, comes free in the back of every Teacher's Edition.

This CD-ROM offers:
Picture dictionary cards and worksheets
Forms for document literacy
Unit, midterm, and final tests
Self-assessment pages
Reproducible, collaborative learning activity sheets
Audio for tests
If your class meets for six hours a week or more, the collaborative learning activities from the Teacher's Toolkit Audio CD/CD-ROM are an excellent opportunity to encourage cooperative learning and community building within the classroom.