Consolidate students' knowledge of English with the New Language Leader Coursebook. Each of the 12 units covers essential content and English skills - grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, study skills and writing - all presented by means of contemporary topics that will catch students' interest.

A stimulating way to practice
The Coursebook offers a variety of material on contemporary issues that will help students negotiate academic life successfully.
Scenarios give students the opportunity to apply language in real-life situations and develop valuable communication skills.
Study Skills sections, with videos, provide useful tips and training for a successful academic life.
Meet the Expert videos develop listening skills and provide inspiring topics for discussion.

Be ready for university entrance tests
Exam practice is embedded in each unit to prepare students for high-stakes tests such as IELTS and PTE Academic. This makes the New Language Leader Coursebook the ideal material to ensure students' success." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Unit 1 – EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

GRAMMAR: The continuous aspect - The perfect aspect

VOCABULARY: Issues in education - Reporting what others say - Suffixes (adjectives) - Abbreviations

READING: An article about role learning in the digital age - Profiles of three successful people - A CV - Evaluating effectiveness

LISTENING: A radio programme about education - Reacting to the text - A job interview

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing education - The qualities of successful people - Jobs and CVs

SCENARIO: Choosing an intern
Key language: Stating requirements, saying what is essential and desirable
Task: Choosing an intern

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Justifying opinions - A CV
Study skills: Self-awareness
Writing skills: A covering letter

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Helen Kempster, a career consultant, about job hunting and interviews

Unit 2 – TOURISM AND CONSERVATION

GRAMMAR: Past simple - Present perfect simple & past simple

VOCABULARY: Travel collocations - Multi-word verbs - The natural world

READING: Holiday brochure extracts - Analysing a genre - A text about the Galapagos islands - An article about the perfect beach - Evaluating advantages and disadvantages

LISTENING: An interview with the director of a conservation charity - Predicting

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Important factors for tourists - Specialised tourism - Discussing threats to the natural and built environment - Talk about the rules at a beach

SCENARIO: Granville Island
Key language: Stating your position, clarifying
Task: Participating in a meeting

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A notice of rules for a beach
Study skills: Planning and organising essays
Writing skills: A problem-solution essay

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Noirin Hegarty from Lonely Planet, about the work of a travel publisher

Unit 3 – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

GRAMMAR: Subordinate clauses - Modal perfect

VOCABULARY: Adjectives of character - Word sets – Abbreviations – Prioritising - International relations

READING: An article about national traits - An article about CERN - Extracts from interviews with ambassadors

LISTENING: A radio interview with an ambassador’s partner - Inferring attitude

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing stereotypes - Reflecting on your culture - Discussing international collaboration - Making criticisms

SCENARIO: The oil spill crisis
Key language: Stating objectives, giving strong advice
Task: Devising an action plan

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Using subordinate clauses
Study skills: Active listening
Writing skills: A speech

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Brendan Paddy from the Disasters Emergency Committee, about international aid

Unit 4 – HEALTH AND CARE

GRAMMAR: Cohesion 1 (linkers) - Future forms with be

VOCABULARY: Health collocations – Healthcare - The language of emotion

READING: An article about health and happiness - An article about healthcare spending - An article about nursing - Evaluating contrasting arguments - Replies to the article

LISTENING: A speech about healthcare provision - Identifying the author’s purpose - A speech by a VIP at a graduation ceremony for nurses

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Taking about health and fitness - Discussing health quotes - Discussing spending on healthcare - Describe and evaluate the healthcare system in your country - Working in healthcare

SCENARIO: Change your ways
Key language: Justifying opinions
Task: Choosing and planning a publicity campaign

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: An essay about the healthcare system in your country
Study skills: Analysing visual information
Writing skills: Describing visual information

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Neil Shah, Director of the Stress Management Society

Unit 5 – FASHION AND CONSUMERISM

GRAMMAR: Future in the past - Emphatic structures – Inversion - Cleft sentences

VOCABULARY: Consumer collocations - Compound adjectives formed with nouns - Suffixes (nouns 1)

READING: The introduction to a radio series - An article about an iconic car - Combining sources of information - Headlines and article extracts about controversies in the fashion industry

LISTENING: An extract from a radio programme about Japan - Expanding the topic - A radio programme about fashion and social responsibility - Identifying support for main argument

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: A debate about materialism - Talking about design classics - Debating topics related to the fashion industry

SCENARIO: Retail revamp
Key language: Discussing hypothetical ideas
Task: Developing a recovery strategy

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A description of one of your possessions
Study skills: Reading complex texts effectively
Writing skills: Summarising

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: interview with fashion designers Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, about their company Cutecircuit

Unit 6 – TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE

GRAMMAR: The passive - Complex noun phrases

VOCABULARY: Describing technology - Collocations

READING: A quiz about technology - Message board texts about technology - Analysing style - Texts about innovators in technology - Considering consequences - An article about DNA testing - Identifying advantages and disadvantages

LISTENING: A presentation - A question and answer session

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about advances in technology - Talking about technological change - Discussing DNA testing

SCENARIO: A radio debate
Key language: Persuading, criticising, accepting criticism, offering counter-arguments
Task: Participating in a debate

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A message board text about technological advances - Improving written texts
Study skills: Intercultural awareness
Writing skills: Reporting a survey

VIDEO: Study Skills Video: a talk about studying in another country

Unit 7 – PEOPLE AND IDEAS

GRAMMAR: Quantifiers - Conditionals

VOCABULARY: Idioms with hand - Expressions of quantity - Irregular plurals

READING: An article about left-handed people - Applying ideas from the text - Texts about four great thinkers - Texts about good ideas

LISTENING: A lecture about creativity - A radio programme about Keynes and Aristotle - Evaluating a summary

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about creative and lateral thinking - Thinking of new uses for everyday objects - Talking about great thinkers - Identifying outcomes

SCENARIO: Camomila
Key language: Approving ideas, expressing doubt/objections
Task: A new plan for Camomila

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING:
Study skills: Critical thinking
Writing skills: An opinion-led essay

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Mairi Ryan from the Royal Society of Arts, about their public events programme

Unit 8 – JOURNALISM AND MEDIA

GRAMMAR: Verb patterns - Prepositional verbs

VOCABULARY: The media

READING: Newspaper headlines - An article by journalist Simon Jenkins – Predicting - A transcript of a talk about an astronaut

LISTENING: Six people talking about their jobs - Justifying choices - A journalist talking to students - A talk about an astronaut - Five people talking about media

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about the media - Discussing headlines for a news programme - Talking about journalism - Talking about social media - Discussing the effectiveness of media - Evaluating effectiveness

SCENARIO: Sailing close to the wind
Key language: Being cautious
Task: Resolving ethical dilemmas

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING:
Study skills: Style and register
Writing skills: Formal, neutral and informal emails

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Dr Nell Haynes, an anthropologist, about the impact of social media

Unit 9 – LAW AND SOCIETY

GRAMMAR: Adverbs of degree - Reporting using nouns

VOCABULARY: Idiomatic verb phrases - Justice systems - Noun conversion

READING: A book introduction - Identifying claims - Two approaches to juvenile delinquency - Two poems - Interpreting poetic language

LISTENING: Five extracts from a book - A talk on teenagers - Evaluating with criteria - A talk about international migration

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about social issues - Talking about juvenile crime and punishment - Talking about migration

SCENARIO: Lawmakers
Key language: Balancing an argument
Task: Amending and modifying the law

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing about migration - Write a poem
Study skills: Synthesising information
Writing skills: A synthesis

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Nik Peachey, an educational consultant about body language in different cultures

Unit 10 – ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

GRAMMAR: Non-finite clauses - Conversational English

VOCABULARY: Performance reviews - Academic verbs

READING: Reviews from a listings page - A press release about the Recycled Orchestra - Understanding and responding to vocabulary choices - Extracts about technology and media - Identifying and evaluating main points

LISTENING: Interviews with people who attended events - Musical extracts - A webcast about using the internet

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about the popularity of the arts - Describing an event - Discussing music - How music changes lives - Discussing technology and entertainment

SCENARIO: Global village
Key language: An informal talk
Task: Informal presentation

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A review for an event - A press release for a concert
Study skills: Seminar/Discussion skills
Writing skills: Critical reflective writing

VIDEO: Study Skills Video: a seminar about the language of drama

Unit 11 – BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

GRAMMAR: Alternatives to if - Phrasal verbs

VOCABULARY: Business and economic terms - Confusing words - Suffixes (nouns 2)

READING: Stories from the business pages - An article about Fairtrade - Negotiating tips

LISTENING: A radio programme about microfinance

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about successful businesses - Deciding and justifying priorities - Talking about Fairtrade - Evaluating evidence - Talking about negotiating, considering alternative views

SCENARIO: Saving lives at sea
Key language: Setting the agenda, responding to offers
Task: Negotiating a contract

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: A summary of a budget - The first paragraph of an essay about microfinance
Study skills: Making a business presentation, introduction, conclusion
Writing skills: A tactful business email

VIDEO: Study Skills Video: a presentation about the launch of a new product

Unit 12 – SCIENCE AND NATURE

GRAMMAR: Cohesion 2 (substitution) - Nominalisation

VOCABULARY: Geological terms - Informal phrases - Collective nouns

READING: An article about life on Mars - Distinguishing fact from opinion - A text about plastic - Evaluating arguments - A blurb and extracts from a book - Understanding persuasive techniques

LISTENING: Three people talk about setting up a human colony on Mars - A podcast about plastic

SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Talking about space exploration and setting up a human colony on Mars - Reducing the consumption of plastic - Talking about insects and food production

SCENARIO: Ask the panel
Key language: Referring to what other people have said
Task: Taking part in a panel discussion

STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing about setting up a human colony on Mars - Writing about reducing consumption of plastic
Study skills: Examination skills
Writing skills: A personal statement

VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with professors Richard Kitney and Paul Freemont, about synthetic biology

Language reference

Meet the Expert

Communication Activities

Audioscripts

Irregular Verb List

Phonetic Charts

Level: High-Intermediate to Advanced (B2+-C1)