Brighter Ideas

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Brighter Ideas

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In Brighter Ideas students work collaboratively to answer real-world questions, providing the perfect way to acquire and practise their English language communication skills.

  • Language Level: Beginner

With a strong focus on communication, and support for students of mixed abilities, Brighter Ideas encourages students to answer questions, engage in the topic, and achieve results.

Using ‘Big Questions’ in each unit encourages and promotes students critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills. The course provides real-world content, with a strong focus on literacy and communication skills.

Assessing learner progress is made easy with fully integrated course assessment, helping students to prepare for exams.

The comprehensive flexible package with additional digital resources ensures there is plenty of content to suit available classroom time.

  • Class Book (print)
  • Online Practice (Students - 2 years' access)
  • Class Book e-Book (2 years' access)
  • Activity Book (print)
  • Activity Book 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 (Class Book, Activity Book - 4 years' access)
  • Classroom Resources Pack
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Key features

  • Feel supported in the classroom with an easy-to-teach course, with detailed lesson notes, and additional resources to maximise teaching time.
  • Students acquire communication skills through answering the Big Questions. Enabling them to become confident in their English language communication.
  • Captivate students with new songs, videos and interactive activities in the Classroom Presentation Tool, now specially designed for screen and in class display.
  • Engage students with the real-world and broaden their knowledge and understanding with global content and international stories.
  • Support students of mixed abilities with a rich and flexible bank of resources all available on Oxford English Hub, and engage parents with fun, flexible activities in the Parent Pack.
  • Integrated Assessment for Learning empowers students to unlock their full potential. A range of in-built exam preparation tests assesses their knowledge and prepares them for exam success.
  • British English course

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Brighter Ideas is designed to engage students enquiring minds, encouraging them to participate in discussions about real-world topics, and achieve results.

With a range of flexible resources and digital components the short Get Started video tutorials help you get the most from the course.

Brighter Ideas also comes with Professional Development support. With access to focus and position papers for expert advice and bite-sized guidance on key issues, and take short professional development modules for an introduction to key methodologies used in Brighter Ideas.

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

Impact Study

Oxford Impact Evalutated

Bright Ideas

As a global course of English for the 21st century, the Bright Ideas series provides students with many opportunities to become effective listeners, speakers, readers and writers, with the aim of developing strong communication skills. An impact study was conducted to understand to what extent and how does Bright Ideas help to develop primary students' communication skills.

* An impact study is research that investigates a particular change or outcome that a product or service has on the group of people it is intended to help or benefit.

Found to improve students’ communication skills

  • All teachers agreed that Bright Ideas helps to develop students’ communication skills, with 55% describing the impact as significant.
  • More than 80% of teachers agreed that Bright Ideas helps to develop the core communication skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing to a moderate or significant extent.
  • 73% of teachers agreed that Bright Ideas develops students' active listening skills and 63% agreed that it develops students' visual communication skills.
  • More than 80% of teachers agreed that the Bright Ideas features such as Communicate activities, stories and songs, Collaborate activities and The Big Question activities are quite effective or very effective at developing students’ communication skills.

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Customer Testimonials

“There are numerous exciting topics, videos, and stories available for discussion, engaging students completely. They become more motivated to express their opinions in class and in small speaking work groups where they do speaking tasks.”

“The book provides a structured approach to learning English, starting from basic vocabulary and grammar and progressing to more complex topics.”

“Bright Ideas offers plenty of opportunities for students to express their ideas. It always provides an example of what they are supposed to do in each activity.”

Oxford Impact

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Digital

Classroom Presentation Tools

  • Deliver engaging lessons - bring your coursebooks to life in the classroom. Simply present your learning resources on screen for highly engaging lessons either face to face or online.
  • Create an interactive learning experience - instantly play audio and video, launch fun activities and games, show answers, present scripts and expand images for discussion, all from the front of the class.
  • Save time and make lesson planning easy - quickly navigate to your ready to go lessons, add personalised notes and use the pen and highlighter tool to annotate the page. Prepare your lessons anywhere, even when you are offline.

Online Practice

  • Save time with ready to go homework activities and extra practice aligned to your course.
  • Set clear practice by managing what your students see - lock and unlock units, lessons or individual activities.
  • Engage your students with videos, audio and various interactive activities with instant automated marking and awards.
  • Track and analyze your students' progress and scores using the integrated Gradebook with a variety of easy to use, visual reports that can be shared with students and parents.
  • Manage home-learning with confidence - quickly create classes, enrol your students, assign practice and communicate via the messages function and discussion boards.
  • Easy to access on desktop, tablet or mobile phone.

E-books:

Class Book and Activity Book e-books come to life with extra digital features to engage students and enhance their learning experience:
  • Watch video straight from the page
  • Complete interactive activities with automated marking
  • Listen to audio for authentic listening practice
  • Voice record to practice speaking and pronunciation
  • Add notes and use the pen and highlighter tool to annotate the page
  • Easily navigate using bookmarks, jump to page, and the search tool
  • Look up the definitions of words and phrases from the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  • Access activities online or offline, on any device
All your digital course materials and resources are accessed via the Oxford English Hub - a launch pad for learning.www.oxfordenglishhub.com

Brighter Ideas includes:

Brighter Ideas includes:

Starter Level Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6