Navigate Beginner is suitable for CEFR level A1.

Navigate is a brand new, six-level General English course tailored exclusively to adults. The course takes an innovative approach to reading and listening, based on academic research as to how adults best learn languages.

The Beginner Coursebook has been thoroughly tested and piloted in ELT classrooms across the world giving teachers the confidence that it works. It takes a bottom-up decoding approach to listening and reading, giving learners the skills they need to listen or read for tomorrow. Real world video content on the CD provides integrated listening practice, video lessons in every unit plus vox pops throughout the course.

Oxford Online Skills Program:

Packaged with all Navigate Coursebooks, the Oxford Online Skills Program helps learners actively focus on developing their Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills, in the classroom or at home. The program uses media rich activities, with video, audio and interactive infographics, to engage students. They are also encouraged to broaden and reflect on their learning with self-check ‘Can do’ statements, space for making notes, tips, cultural glossaries and more. The management tools allow you to monitor progress with easy-to-view overviews, as well as more in-depth reports.

Key Features:

• Based on the Oxford 3000™ so learners are only covering the most relevant vocabulary for them
• Driven by learning outcomes and end goals of adult learners, so that learners can make the most of their time
• Information-rich topics and texts immerse adult learners in themes and issues from around the world so that learning English is more relevant
• Learner materials have been thoroughly tested and piloted in ELT classrooms across the world - giving teachers confidence that it works
• Innovative approach to skills development based on academic research helps your learners to listen and read for tomorrow

After many years teaching, course directing and running his own school in Oxford, Paul Dummett became a full-time writer in 2007. His mission is to create materials that are thought-provoking and that learners can engage with emotionally. He started out with an interest in task and needs-based learning and now is particularly interested in the use of images and narrative techniques in teaching. Paul lives in Oxford with his wife and has three grown-up daughters.

Jake Hughes was born in Reading, England and grew up in England and Istanbul, Turkey. He studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University before setting up and running a theatre in education company in Edinburgh. He then spent several years travelling in Asia and Australia and working in London before moving to Barcelona and beginning his ELT career. After teaching in Spain, England and Turkey, he studied an MA in ELT and Applied Linguistics at King's College, London. Since graduating he has written pieces for EFL reader magazines, test items and is the author of two young learner course books in Greece.

Catherine Walter (Series Adviser)

Look inside Navigate and explore sample video and audio resources at the Navigate website.