This textbook is part of a series of English Language textbooks developed expressly to deliver appropriate and relevant instruction to Pakistani students. Its content is richly complex and intended to engage students and to make reading, the primary act of absorbing information, enjoyable. Accordingly, the texts provided are mostly original culturally relevant and age-appropriate texts, or folk tales from Asia rewritten for this audience.
The Components
These textbooks are based on three components:
Reading matter
Exercises and activities
Teacher Notes
Each unit covers four language verticals: reading, writing, speaking, and technical or formal lexical aspects of the language (grammar, punctuation, syntax). The mainstay of each chapter is the reading material, which has been used, as much as possible, to inform the activities in each subsequent vertical of the unit. The greatest emphasis is on reading and writing. While we have developed activities and provided explanations for the different grammatical concepts required by the SNC, these are less important than encouraging students to read. Comprehension passages and activities developed around these are the most effective tool to learn a language.