Interchange 5th Edition

Interchange

Teach with confidence, using the world's favorite English course.

A four-level, American English course that has been used by over 50 million students worldwide. The series delivers a communicative approach, flexible unit structure and easy to use digital support, giving teachers the tools they need and empowering students to achieve their goals. Teachers choose Interchange because it works.

Authors

Jack C. Richards, Jonathan Hull, Susan Proctor

Components:

100

Published:

June 2017

Edition:

5th Edition

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Key features

A flexible unit structure allows teachers to mix up the activities and not teach every unit in the same way. This makes it easy for teachers to personalize each lesson.

The focus on the Student’s Book is on speaking and real-world conversation. The units get students speaking early and regularly to build their confidence.

A proven, easy-to-follow syllabus enables teachers to get the results their students expect. Teachers do not have to spend too much time preparing for lessons.

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Product Details

Student Material

Interchange Fifth edition is now on our digital learning environment, Cambridge One. Discover easy access to all teaching materials, in one place and across multiple devices for a new and improved experience.

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Students can access all learning materials in one place on Cambridge One.

Digital Workbook: Mobile-friendly activities to practice new language and skills from every unit
Student Resources: Access to class audio and videos
eBook: Digital version of the Student’s Book with audio

Digital Workbook

eBook

Here’s what’s included with the print components:

Student Book with eBook = eBook only
Student Book with Digital Pack = eBook, Digital Workbook, Student resources
Full Contact with Digital Pack = eBook, Digital Workbook, Student resources (Full contact is a combination of Print Student Book, Print Workbook, and Video activity worksheets)

Teacher Material

Find all your teaching tools in one place on Cambridge One.

Digital Workbook: View and assign mobile-friendly activities for students to practice new language and skills from every unit. Use the Gradebook to track your students’ progress.

Presentation Plus: Project or screenshare the Student’s Book and Workbook, play the class audio and video program, and display scripts and answer keys in front of the classroom.

Testing Program: PDF and Word doc versions of the Unit, Mid-term, Final tests as well as Oral and Written Quizzes. PDF of the Placement Test is also available.

Teacher Resources: Save time with hundreds of ready-made activities and worksheets with tips on how to integrate them into your lessons. Resources include:

Grammar, Listening, Project, Vocabulary, and Writing Worksheets
Class Audio
Video Program
Teacher’s Manual
Games
Teacher Development videos

Presentation Plus

Teacher Resources

Research

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A fifth edition based on insights from around the world

Focus Groups

We gathered teachers and coordinators together and asked big questions: You told us that your students need to learn how to speak. You said that you don’t have a lot of time to prepare your lessons. You gave us some initial ideas for revising Interchange.

Survey

A massive survey allowed us to check our ideas with the wider world. You confirmed that a new edition needs to preserve the tried-and-true communicative methodology that makes Interchange special.

In-Depth Reviews

We knew that we needed to update the content, and we asked teachers specifically what had to change. Teachers from different countries went over Interchange carefully. You told us what should change and we listened.

In all, we heard from more than 1,500 teachers from a wide variety of backgrounds. This is what you had to say:

Interchange works. My students learn to speak right away.
Please update the content. I love the books, but I’d like to see some refreshed topics.
We love the flexible units.
Could you give us some new readings? My students enjoy them, but I’ve been teaching the same readings for a while now.
Interchange is great for teaching speaking. The only thing I would improve are the exercises that go with the readings.
Interchange is very easy to teach with.
The scope and sequence are great. Please don’t change the order of the grammar or vocabulary.

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Proven effective

Interchange has been used by more than 50 million people all over the world. Throughout its several editions, teachers have consistently reported that it works. Their students learn English well when they study with Interchange.

This kind of anecdotal evidence is interesting in its own right, but data tell a better story. This paper reports on two independent studies on how well students learn English when they study with Interchange. In each case, the results indicate that teachers are right. Interchange works.

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