Navigate Pre-Intermediate is suitable for CEFR level B1.

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 Pre-Intermediate B1 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 DVD 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

Caroline Krantz is a teacher and ELT writer, based in Oxford. She studied classics and modern languages at Oxford University and joined the world of EFL in 1991. She worked for two years as a teacher in Barcelona and for a further twelve years as a teacher and teacher trainer at language schools in Oxford. She began her writing career in 2005 and has authored and co-authored a number of Coursebooks, Workbooks and Teacher Resource Books for adult and upper-secondary learners. Her titles for OUP include Move On Students’ Book, Solutions Advanced Workbook and Headway Teacher’s Resource Books. She also writes listening tests for Cambridge ESOL.

Julie Norton is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Leicester and a materials writer. Julie trained at the Bell School in Cambridge and International Language Centre in Tokyo. She then completed her MPhil and PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She has taught English in private language schools (Bell, International House), universities and companies in France, Japan and the United Kingdom.

The Navigate Teacher’s Website provides extra resources and support to help make lesson planning easier.

You will also find extra support for teacher’s in the Teacher’s Guide with Teacher Support and Resource Disc: 

• Additional tips and support on areas such as differentiation, critical thinking and smart communication
• Short on time? Supporting videos on the resources disc from Series Adviser Catherine Walter give an overview of each lesson
• Professional development essays written by experts to help teachers get to grips with the course methodology and pedagogical approach 

Join Oxford Teacher's Club and get free access to worksheets, lesson plans and activities for teaching English to young learners, teenagers and adults.

Thousands of teachers now take part in the professional development webinars to develop their skills and to connect with teachers in other countries. Register for a live session and receive a participation certificate upon completion or catch up on previous webinars from the resource archive.

For more information about these resources, please contact your Oxford ELT Educational Consultant.

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