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.
- 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