New Headway is the best-selling series that combines the best of traditional methods with current teaching techniques. New Headway is renowned and valued for a reliable methodology that works at every level. No course offers more in terms of levels, components, and support. The long-awaited, totally new edition of the Advanced level of New Headway, provides a real challenge and stimulus for Advanced learners.

Overview

• Up-to-date international topics stimulate interest and discussion.
• A focus on lexis and spoken language in a challenging language syllabus.
• Streamlined structure and design for maximum clarity and sense of progress.

Key features

• Building on the original Headway Advanced grammar syllabus, challenging language work really stretches advanced learners.
• Rich, thought-provoking texts and topics actively engage students and stimulate discussion.
• A focus on features of spoken language extends and develops learners' language awareness.
• In-depth study of lexis, with a focus on synonyms, collocation, and idiom, improves learners' command.
• Streamlined units encourage a real sense of progress through the course.
• Listening material from a range of sources, including broadcast material, commissioned interviews with famous people, and vox pops, exposes students to a variety of language.
• A range of reading texts of different genres – newspaper articles, magazine extracts, literature – cater for various interests within a group.

Student's Book

• 12 units
• Starter feature introduces the topic of the unit and gets students talking
• Genuinely challenging language work stretches and rewards advanced learners
• Speaking and reading – jigsaw activities promote purposeful speaking
• Focus on features of spoken language
• Vocabulary work focusing on systems
• A unit-linked writing syllabus in a separate section at the back of the book
• Comprehensive grammar reference and tapescripts