Headstart Junior Cert English

Headstart 1 from Gill and Macmillan is a Junior Cert English textbook which contains a variety of exercises making it more interesting.
Headstart 1 is a Junior Certificate textbook for first year students common to both Ordinary and Higher Level, dealing with language and literature.
Teachers who read the text before publication commented:
‘A refreshing and helpful textbook with a number of original approaches to exercises.’
‘The inclusion of a core of grammar instruction and suitable exercises is most useful.’
‘Careful selection of fresh and original literary extracts and poetry.’
‘The poetry selected is highly appropriate . . .and exercises become suitably more challenging as the text progresses.’
‘Choice of topics for the units is also exciting and novel.’
‘Each of the units contains a nice balance of media, drama, comprehension, oral literacy, written literacy and poetry relevant to the students’ own experiences.’
The series will be completed with Headstart 2 for Ordinary Level students or Headstart 3 for Higher Level students. These texts will have particular emphasis on exam technique to enable students to consider and answer questions.
Totally unique extracts and materials in Headstart 1 that have not been seen before in any second level or primary textbook were chosen to encourage young teenagers to communicate about matters that interest them.
There is an emphasis on media studies as it accounts for 60 marks in the Junior Certificate exam.
There is a light, humorous feel to the book, appealing to students of this age group.
Activities vary from those requiring short, succinct answers to those demanding developed responses.
Students are regularly encouraged to evaluate themselves throughout the course.
Provides plenty of practice in reading, writing, punctuation and vocabulary-building.
There are Postscripts and Checklists at the end of each chapter, enabling students and teachers to monitor learning outcomes as the year progresses.

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