Guess What! British English Updated
Guess What! British English Updated
Guess What! Updated Edition is a visually appealing six-level course helping primary learners to confidently apply English in real-world contexts.
Guess What! Updated Edition guides young learners on an exciting adventure, facilitating their English learning journey. Across its six levels, it nurtures children's innate curiosity about the world around them, with eye-catching imagery and engaging video content. The practical language skills taught help equip learners to confidently apply English in both educational and real-world contexts.
Authors
Susannah Reed, Lesley Koustaff, Kay Bentley
Key features
Promotes whole-child development based on the Cambridge Life Competencies
Supports speaking confidence through socially useful language and lively songs and chants to make learning enjoyable and memorable
Features beautiful photography, captivating video, and interest-grabbing CLIL-based topics that take English learners on a fascinating journey of exploration and discovery
What makes Guess What! British English Updated Edition special?
Children are full of questions and naturally curious about the world around them. Through the power of beautiful photography in the Unit openers and Content lessons, Guess What! Updated Edition taps into this curiosity and sparks interest in topics from across the curriculum. Captivate learners' attention with videos featuring fascinating parts of our world, presented by young, dynamic presenters.
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Guess What! Updated Edition presents language in clear, manageable chunks, making the activities challenging but achievable. Improve pronunciation and spelling with the ‘Say it’ sections, focusing on sounds of English and the relationship between the sounds and letters. There’s plenty of practice, recycling and revision opportunities to reinforce key language and skills. Each lesson in the Pupil’s Book is reinforced by activities in the Activity Book and online practice, and there is a revision spread every two units.
Research shows that teaching language and content improves learners’ proficiency, but what do we actually mean by ‘content’, how can we motivate students to learn it and why is it important to teach it to young learners? Content lessons in Guess What! Updated Edition, supported by documentaries showing some of the most interesting parts of our world, improve proficiency across content areas as well as listening skills. The content syllabus is selected from common subjects in the primary curriculum and age-appropriate topics. The syllabus builds on previous levels to systematically develop children’s knowledge and subject skills in English.
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The digital experience has been upgraded for the updated edition. Teachers and learners can access all the digital content in one place on Cambridge One, our learning management platform which has been adapted especially for young learners.
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- Teachers can access classroom presentation tools, teacher training, tests, worksheets, class audio and video, and can monitor students' online practice.
- Students can practise language and skills with bite-sized activities, enjoy interactive games and videos, and see their progress as they complete the activities along the learning path.
Stories are a powerful vehicle to stimulate children's imaginations and to illustrate social values. The adventure stories in Guess What! Updated Edition prepare children for success in life by teaching them collaboration, communication, responsibility and respect towards others and the world.
Guess What! Updated Edition supports language production by providing tools for interpersonal and academic communication, focusing on BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) and CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency).
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- Functional mini-dialogues, 'Talk time', teach natural conversation skills in English.
Content (CLIL) lessons teach subject-specific language.
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What's new
Just like the first edition, Guess What! Updated Edition features beautiful photography, captivating video, and CLIL-based topics that take English learners on a fascinating journey of exploration and discovery. The course supports speaking confidence through socially useful language and lively songs and chants to make learning enjoyable. It also continues to help learners build a solid foundation in English, by mapping to the Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners syllabus.
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In addition to this, the updated edition promotes whole-child development based on the Cambridge Life Competencies. It incorporates collaborative and meaningful projects which encourage active learning, develop creative thinking and consolidate children’s subject knowledge and language skills. The digital experience has also been upgraded for both teachers and students.
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Student components
Pupil's Book with eBook
The Guess What! Updated Edition Pupil's Book features nine highly visual units, including a Welcome unit, full of beautiful photography, enriching stories, cross-curricular content and plenty of varied language and skills practice. Pupils also have access to an enhanced eBook on Cambridge One.
Activity Book with Digital Pack
The Guess What! Updated Edition Activity Book with Digital Pack reinforces all the lessons presented in the Pupil’s Book offering even more language and skills practice.
The colourful Picture Dictionary in the back of the Activity Book reinforces key vocabulary and, in lower levels, practises letter and word tracing.
Enjoy a variety of activities including stickers and cut-outs in lower levels and Evaluation pages that enable children to keep a record of their learning.
Teacher components
Teacher's Book
The Guess What! Updated Edition Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack is designed with busy teachers in mind. It enables teachers to tailor the course to their individual timetables and guides them through all the stages of the lesson, making lesson preparation easy and quick. Pathways in the Teacher’s Book enable teachers to tailor the course to their individual timetables and guides them through all the stages of the lesson, making lesson preparation easy and quick.
Test Generator
Creating Guess What! Updated Edition tests is simple thanks to the online Test Generator. Teachers can select from end-of-unit, end-of-year and skills tests at different levels of challenge.
Digital packs
Guess What! Updated Edition learners and teachers benefit from an upgraded digital learning experience in Cambridge One.
Pupil's Digital Pack
The digital environment in Cambridge One has been developed for primary-age learners, with an appealing design, easy access, intuitive navigation and motivating content. The Pupil’s Digital Pack includes Practice Extra, which features consolidation activities for homework or at school, and more. The unique access code is included inside the front cover of the Activity Book.
Practice Extra celebrates success with achievement badges, maps progress on the learning path and motivates young learners to continue with their language practice.
This online practice is packed with bite-sized consolidation and extension activities for grammar, vocabulary and skills, along with games and rewards presented on an easy-to-navigate learning path.
The activities and games are unique to Practice Extra and are in addition to those found in the Pupil and Activity Books. They can be completed on any device as homework or at school.
The short Brain Break videos offer a rest from academic input and help to promote healthy screen time habits.
Teacher's Digital Pack
The Teacher’s Digital Pack brings all the teaching and learning resources teachers need together in Cambridge One with Presentation Plus, which is available online or offline. This classroom presentation tool provides interactive versions of the Pupil and Activity Books to encourage motivated and engaged learning, either in the classroom or remotely.
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The new version of Presentation Plus includes:
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- Grammar fun animations that motivate children to practise interactive grammar activities.
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- Documentary-style opening videos that spur interest in unit topics.
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- Animated adventure stories now at teacher’s fingertips.
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New teacher resources include:
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- Inclusivity worksheets to support whole-child development.
- Evaluation templates and assessment grids to help learners and teachers track progress.
- Extended projects that promote project-based learning and accompanying Teacher notes, preparation templates, and project assessment grids to support busy teachers
Sample units
Children are natural explorers. They are curious about the world around them, and are eager to learn and talk about topics that interest them. Guess What! Updated Edition taps into children's natural curiosity and creates opportunities for meaningful communication by providing stimulating visuals, topics and language tools.
The topics are selected from the common subjects in the wider primary curriculum. Each level builds on the cross-curricular content of the previous levels to systematically develop children's knowledge.
Content lessons improve proficiency across topics while video documentaries improve understanding and listening skills. A project at the end of each content lesson consolidates children’s subject knowledge and language skills in a creative way, helping to develop creative thinking.
Download the sample units to see how the material works.
Level 1 Unit 8
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Pupil's Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Level 2 Unit 6
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Pupil’s Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Level 3 Unit 6
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Pupil’s Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Level 4 Unit 8
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Pupil’s Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Level 5 Unit 3
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Pupil’s Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Level 6 Unit 6
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Pupil’s Book with eBook
Activity Book with Digital Pack
Teacher’s Book with Digital Pack
Components
Components
Guess What! British English Level 1 Pupil's Book with eBook Updated
Guess What! British English Level 1 Activity Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 1 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 2 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 2 Activity Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 2 Pupil's Book with eBook Updated
Guess What! British English Level 3 Activity Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 3 Pupil's Book with eBook Updated
Guess What! British English Level 3 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack Updated
Guess What! British English Level 4 Pupil's Book with eBook Updated
Guess What! British English Level 4 Teacher's Book with Digital Pack Updated
