New Headway

It's the world's best-selling English course - but why?

How does Headway deliver lessons that really do work in class?

Short answer: methodology.

Headway's balanced methodology combines the best of traditional approaches - solid grammar and practice, vocabulary development etc - and newer approaches, such as communicative role-play and personalization.

Authors Liz and John Soars have developed a set of principles which "... is a summary of all we believe when writing and teaching."

Here are three of them:

i) Grammar has a core place in language teaching and learning.

ii) A wide variety of practice tasks in all the four skills are essential to language learning.

iii) Everyday expressions, particularly of spoken English, also need a place in the syllabus. These can be functional, social, situational or idiomatic.

e-Books

Enhance your students’ learning experience with the Headway fourth edition e-books offering all Student’s Book content with extra interactive features.

• Personalize learning: save audio or written notes anywhere on the page.
• Slow down the built-in audio to hear every word clearly.
• Improve pronunciation with the listen, record and compare feature.
• Help students check their progress with automatically marked exercises.

Available for iPad and tablets for Android via the Oxford Learner’s Bookshelf app.

Classroom Presentation Tool

Headway Classroom Presentation Tool gives you complete flexibility when you want digital resources for the interactive classroom.

• Complete Student's Book plus audio and answer keys.
• Complete Workbook plus audio and answer keys.
• Scripts to accompany audio and video activities.
• Built-in tools personalize interactive lessons

Audio and Video

Student Book and Workbook audio for extra practice, plus Student Book video are now available on the Headway Student website.

Oxford Online Skills Program provides support and development of all four language skills, providing effective practice framed within common and accessible themes and topics, mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

• Step-by-step student support – Each learning module follows an Engage-Explore-Task-Reflect activity sequence to ensure that students practise and learn effectively on their own.
• Aligned to the CEFR – Give your students practice at the level that's right for them, with self-check ‘Can-do' statements at the end of each module.
• Media-rich – Motivate your students with compelling visual content including videos, interactive info-graphics and striking photography on culturally diverse topics.
• Flexible – Reorder content and decide how and when you want to assign homework: ideal for differentiated learning.
• Adaptable – Create your own new content to meet the needs of your students, including your own speaking and writing tasks, tests, discussions and live chat, and uploading videos, audio, or PowerPoint presentations.
• Measurable – Monitor your students' progress with a wide range of management tools.
• The access code for Online Skills is in the Student's Book.