Super Minds British English 2nd Edition

Super Minds British English

Take your students on an adventure! Super Minds Second edition is a thoroughly updated version of the English course that gets everybody thinking.

Super Minds is back and is super charged! Alongside the super friends and the explorers, young learners make their way towards B1 over seven levels, solving mysteries along the way. The course is aligned with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework and has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinkers, capable of investigating Big Questions. Students learn to apply English to their lives outside the classroom, while developing the language and life skills they need to grow into confident, collaborative, responsible individuals. The course is brought out of the book and onto the screen by five videos per unit, featuring various entertaining characters, animations and documentary-style footage.

Authors

Herbert Puchta, Günter Gerngross, Peter Lewis-Jones

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Published:

January 2022

Edition:

2nd Edition

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Key features

Accompany your students on exciting adventures with the intrepid characters, as they enjoy creative projects, authentic CLIL content and flexible skills practice.

Energise your classroom with the comprehensive digital package on Cambridge One, including big-screen quality animated videos, interactive games and extra online practice for class or home.

Aligned to the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework, the course has a particular focus on developing critical and creative thinking skills, as well as three key cognitive control functions for young learners.

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Student components

Student Components

Student's Book with eBook

The Student's Book contains 10 units, each with a fun and relevant topic for learners and its own language and vocabulary focus. The back of the Student's Book features an additional Language Focus section for each unit, as well as two pages of colourful stickers to practise language and skills with, in corresponding activities throughout the book. The Student's Book contains a code for access to the enhanced eBook, an online version of the book with embedded audio and video.

Workbook

The full-colour workbook correlates page by page with the Student's Book, making it easy to use both books in class. The Workbook also includes a code for students to access the Digital Pack, including Practice Extra.

Super Practice Book

An additional and optional component for students that practises both language and skills, with teacher and parent notes also available. This component has been updated for the second edition to include speaking and listening, in addition to reading and writing pages.

Changes in the second edition

What have we kept and what have we improved?

While this new and improved second edition of Super Minds maintains its easy-to-use, comprehensive language syllabus and unit structure, the experience of teaching and learning with the course is thoroughly contemporary.

What have we kept?

The things teachers and learners love

Relatable characters who enjoy exciting adventures
Fun and catchy songs and chants which aid engagement in the classroom and at home
Interactive and engaging projects and activities
Authentic CLIL content and extensive skills practice
The comprehensive language syllabus and a tried-and-tested unit structure with a teach-off the page simplicity

What have we improved?

New design

The characters and stories throughout the course have been transformed with new contemporary illustrations. Today’s students will find them as relatable as ever and be charmed by their adventures.
New illustrations throughout and an increased use of photography gives the course a contemporary feel.
Higher levels have been designed to reflect the increased sophistication of today’s pre-teens.
A full-colour Workbook gives learners further practice and consolidates learning.

Fresh and updated content

Exciting new animated story videos and song videos are available from Starter to Level 4, as well as animated Language Focus videos at all levels.
New Think and learn CLIL content and videos are linked to topics students will be studying in their first language.
Creative and critical thinking strands have been updated and developed in line with the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework. Activities are mapped to the framework and explained in the Teacher’s Book.
Activities designed to enhance cognitive control functions, which will lead to more successful language learning.
New Big Questions at the beginning of every unit give students a gradual introduction to Enquiry-Based Learning.

Enhanced digital support

Extensive digital support for teachers and students is accessed through our new learning environment, Cambridge One.
Presentation Plus gives easy access to resources in the classroom, including the new animated videos.
Practice Extra provides extra digital activities for students in a carefully tailored environment designed specifically for Primary learners. It includes interactive games to review language and Brain Break activities to aid motivation and help recharge the brain.

Behind the scenes with Herbert Puchta

Herbert Puchta and his team possess a deep understanding of the learning needs of Primary students, as well as profound knowledge of classroom practice and the challenges faced by teachers. Watch Herbert Puchta giving us a glimpse behind the scenes of the creation of Super Minds Second Edition

Teacher and classroom resources

Teacher and Classroom Resources

Teacher's Book

The Teacher's Book features the Student's Book pages interleaved on each spread, ensuring that your classroom experience is as smooth as possible. It includes activity-by-actvity mapping to critical and creative thinking strands of the Cambridge Life Competencies Framework, as well as to cognitive control functions.

Flashcards

Flashcards help learners practice key vocabulary from the unit, with an illustration or photo on one sides and target language on the other. Digital flashcards are available for all levels, with the option of a set of printed flashcards for each level from Starter to Level 4.

Posters

Poster packs are available, with five vibrant posters for each level, providing teachers with an eye-catching, engaging resource for language practice. The posters focus on key language from the Student's Book and include extra words from the corresponding Young Learners English syllabus to extend students' vocabulary. Accompanying activity notes offer a variety of interactive, engaging activities to fully exploit the posters.

Digital Packs

Digital Packs and eBook

Super Minds Second Edition is supported by a comprehensive digital package for both teacher and student. Hosted on Cambridge One, the Digital Pack is flexible and provides rich support for the classroom, while offering age-appropriate additional content for students, whether in the classroom or at home.

Access your Digital Pack

For teachers: find your unique code in the Teacher's Book

For students: find your unique Digital Pack code in your Workbook, and your eBook code in your Student's Book.

Teacher's Digital Pack

Presentation Plus provides page-faithful reproductions of the Student’s Book and Workbook and includes:

Hotspots to audio and video content and interactive reproductions of activities
Interactive games and digital flashcards
Quick and easy access to the Teacher’s Book notes corresponding to the Student’s Book or Workbook page.

Teacher Resources include:

A wide range of downloadable, photocopiable activities
Teacher’s notes, parent’s notes and answer keys for the Super Practice Book
Downloadable, printable tests for Starter Level
Access to all the course audio and video.

The Test Generator provides the option of ready-made or customisable tests at different levels of challenge for Levels 1 to 6. Cambridge One allows the teacher to create classes, set assignments and measure progress through the Teacher Dashboard.

Classroom management tools

Set homework, assign grades and measure student progress at the click of a button, with intuitive classroom management tools.

Student's Digital Pack

The Student's Digital Pack includes Practice Extra and Learner Resources. The environment has been carefully tailored specifically for young learners, with easy access, intuitive navigation, child-friendly design and motivational rewards.

Practice Extra provides digital activities not found in the Student's Book or Activity Book, allowing learners to practise, and show, their learning at home or in the classroom. It also includes a range of interactive games to review language, as well as Brain Breaks, which are activities - mindfulness, relaxation techniques, stretching and more - designed to encourage children to take a break from activities with a higher cognitive load. Learners also have direct access to the wealth of audio-visual activities that Super Minds Second Edition provides - story, language focus, CLIL and song videos, as well as activities to exploit them.

Learner Resources include all the course audio and video in a downloadable format, ensuring learners can access them both on and offline.

The Learner Dashboard allows parents or guardians to check progress through medals won, scores, time spent on activities and more.