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Life skills for the real world

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A vibrant Primary course which has real world communication at its core. Engaging characters and stories provide authentic contexts for communication and an integrated life skills syllabus helps foster critical and creative thinking.

“We Are Heroes! focuses on English as it is used in the real world. Pupils receive systematic support enabling them to complete fun, communicative tasks, set in real world contexts. My pupils have really enjoyed and benefited from these tasks.”

“By helping family, friends and members of the local community, every child can be a hero.”

“Teaching children to think critically and creatively is more important than ever. We Are Heroes! helps children to develop new ways of thinking so that they can explore and make sense of their world.”

“We Are Heroes! is about confidence-building. We have developed activities to help students to feel comfortable about challenging themselves and thinking about how they learn effectively. I think our devoted Study Skills and Thinking Skills sections will be valued by teachers and students alike.”

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• Engaging real-world content and tasks, tailored to the needs and maturity of your pupils, help them to progressively gain communicative competence.

• An emphasis on the development of life skills, presented in a child-friendly way, encourages pupils to reflect and apply the skills to their own lives.

• An integrated approach to the four skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking) ensures that pupils develop both receptive and productive skills in parallel, as in real life.

• Throughout the course, thinking skills activities are used to develop pupils’ ability to think critically and creatively.

• We Are Heroes! has a wide range of extension material which can be found at the back of the Pupil’s Book and Workbook. This provides teachers with the flexibility they need to adapt the level according to their classroom needs.

• Tips and accommodations for Special Education Needs will allow all pupils to learn in the best possible way.

WHY IS WE ARE HEROES! THE BEST CHOICE?

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EVOLVING WITH YOUR PUPILS

• The four characters, Heroes Connect, are a group that meet up and work on their intercultural blog and vlog project. They share information with their peers around the world, enhancing cultural awareness.

• Continued focus is given to integrated skills with emphasis given to Digital Competence.

• Thinking skills lessons help pupils to develop new ways of thinking in order to explore and make sense of this world.

• Grammar is presented in the Grammar Connect section where pupils are given the appropriate tools to work out grammatical patterns.

• At the end of each unit, pupils watch a vlog which reinforces and extends the content of the unit, while also exposing pupils to new everyday English language.

• In the Heroes Club the four characters participate in different fun activities in their neighbourhood and learn about the world around them in an engaging, age-appropriate way.

• Integrated skills are developed through the use of motivating songs, stories and videos.

• The life skills activities use friendly comic strip characters, making them more accessible to this age group.

• The final review task has a video which can be used as a model by pupils to show what they have learnt in the unit.

• The Heroes Community Centre is where the characters like to spend their free time. They are now part of a wider community.

• Integrated skills continue to be developed through the use of songs, stories, raps and videos, with productive and receptive skills being worked on together.

• Life skills are broadened using stories in which pupils need to analyze the various possible outcomes.

• The Grammar Heroes present vocabulary and grammar within an appropriate and fun context.

• At the end of the unit, using their linguistic and communicative skills, pupils demonstrate what they have learnt.

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• AUTHENTIC CHILD-FRIENDLY LIFE SKILLSDeveloping life skills in 21st century pupils is a major theme in We Are Heroes! Using age-appropriate tasks, pupils work on life skills within contexts that they can relate to.

• FOCUS ON REAL WORLD TASKSAuthentic tasks and contexts are used to encourage child-friendly real world communication using different examples of real language forms.

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The focus on life skills encourages children to reflect on key aspects of their own everyday lives.

The level of challenge evolves taking into account the needs and maturity of pupils.

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We Are Heroes! 5 Pupil’s BookThe tasks presented help pupils to progressively develop their communicative competence.

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• AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE FOUR SKILLSThe four skills are carefully integrated to provide richer, more authentic language development.

• THINKING SKILLSThinking skills activities can be found throughout the course. These develop pupils’ ability to think both critically and creatively.

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The four skills are worked on in parallel, like in real life. Integrated Skills lessons in

Levels 5 and 6 combine both receptive and productive skills.

Thinking skills are systematically developed in line with the age of the pupils.

• CLASSROOM INNOVATIONWe Are Heroes! has a wide range of innovative support material for both teachers and pupils.

• FLEXIBLE MATERIALS Optional extension material at the end of both the Pupil’s Book and Workbook allows teachers to easily adapt the level to their pupils’ needs.

The Teacher’s Book comes with Special Education Needs tips which aim to provide teachers with tools to work in the classroom more efficiently with different types of pupils. Worksheets and tests designed for children with special education needs are online, ready to be downloaded.

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The Pupil’s Digital Resources foster student autonomy and digital literacy while creating a strong home-school link.

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The photocopiable material for the communication activities (Levels 1 to 4) provides teachers with all the necessary tools for setting real-world communication tasks in an enjoyable way.

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• Seasons lessons• Heroes Reading

Club lessons• Reviews – an

introduction to exam-type practice

• Reading extension• Grammar extension• Functional language• Festivals• Reviews with exam-

type practice

• Thinking skills lessons• Heroes Project• Grammar reinforcement

and extension• Extra reading• Festivals• Study skills lessons• Exam practice: with

international examination-type practice

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DIGITAL MATERIALReliable and comprehensive digital pack

TEACHER DIGITAL RESOURCES PUPIL’S BOOK AND TEACHER’S BOOK eBOOK• Enhanced digital versions of

the Pupil’s Book and Teacher’s Book.

• It allows the teacher to present the material to the class.

TEACHER’S RESOURCE CENTRE• All the supplementary materials teachers

may need for their class at the touch of a button.

TEST GENERATOR• An innovative tool to make teachers’ lives

easier when it comes to testing and also to provide flexibility.

VIDEOS• Int egrated into the

lesson stages in every unit.

PUPIL DIGITAL RESOURCES

PUPIL’S RESOURCE CENTRESupplementary material including the songs and their karaoke versions, which can be downloaded as MP3 files, and the photocopiable material needed for the class activities.

PUPIL’S BOOK eBOOKDigital version of the Pupil’s Book with embedded audio, animations (in Levels 1 & 2) and end-of-unit video.

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e-School Link

*Pupil’s Book includes an access code to the Pupil’s Resource Centre and Pupil’s Book eBook.

Watch unit video here

Visit http://digital.macmillan.com.ar to find more about the series digital resources.

• FOR TEACHERS

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The We Are Heroes! series covers:

Pupil’s Book Pack(Pupil’s Book with access to Pupil’s Book eBook & Pupil’s Resource Centre)

Teacher’s Book(with access to Teacher’s Resource Centre)

Workbook

Pupil’s Book eBook

For more information, visit macmillanenglish.com/ar/we­are­heroes

or tell us how we can help you further at argentina.eltinfo@macmillaneducation.com

• FOR PUPILS

* The Teacher’s Resource Centre Pack includes:

Visual Aids Booklet (Levels 1–3)

Test Generator

LEVELS 1 AND 2

• Grammar and Vocabulary Reinforcement and Extension worksheets

• Classroom Language cards

• Welcome Unit word cards

• Presentation word cards

• Digital Flashcards

• Downloadable audio

• Videos and animations

• Photocopiables for communication activities in Lesson 4

• Photocopiables for final unit outcome (in black and white and in colour)

• Festival worksheets

• Song sheets

• Record sheets

• Evaluation rubrics

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests)

• SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

LEVELS 3 AND 4

• Grammar and Vocabulary Reinforcement worksheets

• Grammar Extension worksheets

• Functional language worksheets

• Presentation word cards

• Digital Flashcards

• Downloadable audio

• Videos

• Photocopiables for final unit outcome (in black and white and in colour)

• Festival worksheets

• Real world research worksheets

• Record sheets

• Evaluation rubrics

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests)

• SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

LEVELS 5 AND 6

• Vocabulary Reinforcement worksheets

• Grammar Extension worksheets

• Functional language worksheets

• Downloadable audio

• Videos

• Thinking Skills templates

• Record sheets

• Evaluation rubrics

• Tests (for each unit + term tests and end-of-year test + speaking tests)

• SEN photocopiables (worksheets and tests)

DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE

DOWNLOAD SAMPLE HERE

DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE

DOWNLOAD SAMPLE UNIT HERE