Make The Transition English - 2nd Edition

Make The Transition English - 2nd Edition

Make The Transition English - 2nd Edition

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NEW - An appealing, engaging and thoroughly revised textbook for Transition Year English with a huge choice of texts and activities for students and teachers to explore.

• Make the Transition English is an appealing, engaging and thoroughly rtevised book for Transition Year English with a huge choice of texts and activities for students and teachers to explore.
• Designed to help students make the transition from the Junior to the Leaving Certificate cycle, and to introduce them to new and more challenging concepts and skills
• Completely redesigned with a vibrant, lively and attractive layout
• Concise aims for each unit will help students to understand the context of the material and reinforce their learning
• Develops key skills in comprehending and composing (worth up to 50% of the marks at Leaving Certificate English)
• Includes a revised selection of texts that students will find stimulating, engaging and enjoyable:
     - Roddy Doyle’s short story ‘New Boy’
     - William Wallace’s speech in Braveheart
     - Sixteen-year-old Hannah Nelson’s ‘Enduring Peace’ speech in Belfast
     - Film-making project where students are challenged to create their own short film of a studied short story
     - Humorous writing by comedian Colm O’Regan
     - Brian Boyd’s Irish Times article on song at Manchester United
     - Tim Pat Coogan’s analysis of ‘The Fields of Athenry’
     - The chilling short story ‘Aisling’ by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner Colum McCann
     - Tobias Wolff’s imaginative and provocative story ‘Bullet in the Brain’
• New Short Fiction unit introduces the comparative writing task and develops essential Leaving Certificate comparative analysis skills
• New media and multimodal texts to encourage discussion and analysis at group level