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Stretch Second Edition is a four-level course with a special focus on speaking, presenting skills, global skills, and understanding video. Capture students’ imaginations and get them talking with documentary & social media videos from around the globe. Flexible content can be included or omitted according to student needs and available lesson time.

  • Language Level: Elementary - Intermediate (A1-B1)
  • Teaching hours: 110

Guide students to greater fluency with Stretch Second Edition! Carefully structured speaking tasks and dedicated Presenting Skills, Presenting Practice, Understanding Video and Video & Global Skills lessons help students build their confidence in using English and develop valuable professional skills. Clear, achievable lesson objectives help students see their progress, feel a sense of achievement, and stay motivated.

With its focus on building communicative competence, this course is ideal for young adults making or about to make the transition from secondary education to higher education and the world of work.

All your digital course materials and resources are accessed via the Oxford English Hub – a launchpad for learning: www.oxfordenglishhub.com.

  • Student Book (print)
  • Student Book A (print)
  • Student Book B (print)
  • Online Practice (Students - 2 years' access)
  • Student e-Book (2 years' access)
  • Student Resources (2 years' access)
  • Teacher's Guide (print)
  • Online Practice (Teachers - 4 years' access)
  • Teacher Resources (4 years' access)
  • Classroom Presentation Tools (Student Book - 4 years' access)
  • Student Digital Pack (2 years' access)
Key features Read more... What's new?

Key features

  • Stretch Your Skill Set: Expand your students’ ability to express themselves in English with dedicated presenting skills lessons.
  • Stretch Your Fluency: Provide clear steps to communicative success through structured speaking tasks.
  • Stretch Your Horizons: Inspire students with relevant, motivating course content, including documentary & social media videos from around the globe.
  • For the teacher: Stretch Second Edition gives you everything you need to support your students, in one place via the Oxford English Hub.
  • Refreshed, easy-to-navigate design
  • American English course.

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Stretch Your Skill Set: Expand your students’ ability to express themselves in English with dedicated presenting skills and presenting practice lessons.
  • Develop students’ presenting skills. NEW Step by step activities help students prepare and deliver spoken presentations. Full Presenting Practice lessons and shorter Quick Presentation tasks enable a flexible approach that accommodates varying student needs and available classroom hours.
  • Provide relatable examples. NEW presentation videos and social media videos feature non-native and native English speakers and offer models for students to emulate in their own presentations and video creation tasks.
  • Foster a supportive classroom. NEW Feedback and Reflect activities encourage students to learn from each other, to make constructive suggestions & to reflect on how they can develop their own presentation skills further.
Stretch Your Fluency: Provide clear steps to communicative success through structured speaking tasks.
  • Guide students to greater fluency. Communication and Useful Language boxes and pronunciation exercises in every Speaking lesson provide a step-by-step approach. Example dialogues with relatable situations from everyday life act as models for students’ own conversations.
  • Build communicative competence. Reinforce new vocabulary and activate students’ existing grammar knowledge through speaking tasks in the Grammar Talk sections.
  • Spark conversations. NEW Reading & Speaking lessons provide structured speaking activities that help students respond to the themes & topics in reading texts.
Stretch Your Horizons: Inspire students with relevant, motivating course content
  • Bring the outside world into the classroom. Documentary & social media videos from around the globe capture students’ imaginations & get them talking.
  • Introduce the global skills that support success. Dedicated Understanding Video and Video & Global Skills lessons every other unit and clearly signposted Global Skills boxes throughout the course make teaching these valuable competences simple.
  • Build your students’ confidence. I Can statements on every page help students to reflect on their progress and encourage a sense of achievement.

What's new?

Stretch Second Edition contains the following new or updated features:
  • Refreshed, easy-to-navigate design.
  • NEW presentation videos and social media videos feature non-native and native English speakers and offer a model for students to emulate in their own presentations and video creation tasks.
  • NEW Documentary & social media videos from around the globe capture students’ imaginations & get them talking.
  • NEW Feedback and Reflect activities encourage students learn from each other, to make constructive suggestions & to reflect on how they can develop their own presentation skills further.
  • NEW Reading & Speaking lessons provide structured speaking activities that help students respond to the themes & topics in reading texts.
  • Revised unit structure. Viewing Skills lessons have been replaced with Understanding Video and Video & Global Skills lessons in even-numbered units. Presenting pages have been replaced with Presenting Skills and Presenting Practice lessons in odd-numbered units.
  • Clear highlighting of Global Skills content in scope and sequence and within lessons.

Stretch includes:

Stretch includes:

Starter Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3