Aventura Nueva 1: Teacher's Resource Book: Bk. 1 - Tapa blanda

Aventura Nueva is a communicative three-part Spanish course in line with the latest curriculum changes - including the Key Stage 3 Strategy - and is suitable for a wide ability range. Aventura Nueva 1 provides an ideal introduction to Spanish for pupils starting the language in Year 7, 8 or 9.

The Teacher's Resource Book is the essential companion to the Aventura Nueva 1 Pupil's Book with clear guidance on how best to exploit the core course material, and fulfil the requirements of the KS3 Languages Framework using Aventura. It is clearly divided into two sections, Teacher's Notes and Photocopy Masters.

Highlights include:

- fully integrated teacher's notes, featuring solutions and transcripts to activities in both the Pupil's Book and the Photocopy Masters

- detailed customisable lesson plans and schemes of work giving full coverage of the Languages Framework using the course components

- photocopiable worksheets containing additonal extension activities, games and ideas

- ongoing and summative assessment tests in all four skills.

* Rosa María Martín, a native speaker and teacher of Spanish, is currently Director of the Language Learning Unit at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
* Martyn Ellis is the Principal of Eurocentre, an EFL college in central London, and is an expert in the theory and practice of language teaching and learning.