General English

Key Benefits:

• Interchange is one of Yes, Learn’s most popular courses because insights from thousands of teachers have helped Cambridge to identify and preserve everything we love about the course whilst making all the right updates: new readings, new listenings, new conversations, new ‘Snapshots’.

• Every student’s book comes with free online self-study, including hundreds of exercises to consolidate learning done in the classroom. Yes, Learn only endorses the use of genuine Cambridge resources and materials whilst studying this course.

• ‘Grammar plus’ explores each unit’s grammar in greater depth, practices the grammar with controlled exercises, and can be completed with written feedback from our Learning Support team.
• The Listening activities are a great way to benefit all of your English language skills.
• Readings offer updated topics that are relevant to today’s students, while helping them develop a variety of skills such as reading for main ideas, reading for details, and inferencing.
• Conversations provide speaking and listening practice. They also serve as models for real-world conversations that our students can use in their daily lives.

Grow your confidence in using English, everyday.

 

Yes, Learn has enhanced this course to take advantage of our methodologies, virtual classroom features and our flexible approach to learning. If your work schedule is a barrier to your learning, then talk to us about it. We can easily help to make your learning happen and fulfil your employment or other study commitments.

 

Through a range of resources our students are engaged in reading, writing and listening which is useful and practical in day-to-day situations. Their confidence visibility and audibly grows in each lesson. The Yes, Learn approach to this course prepares our students for each Grammar point and the target vocabulary the lesson begins.

 

The Cambridge Interchange course, enhanced by Yes, Learn is a four level course:

– Intro Level – A1

– Level One – A2

– Level Two – A2-B1

– Level Three – B1

 

CEFR Level B1 is the level of KET (Key English Test) and PET (Preliminary English Test), IELTS 4.0 – 5.0, TOEFL iBT 57–86 and TOEIC 550+.

 

This course the leads into the Cambridge Passages course which follows CEFR levels B1-C1.

 

 

What is the CEFR?

The overall aim of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is to provide objective criteria for describing and assessing language proficiency in an internationally comparable manner.

 

Cambridge explains; “Interchange has been used by more than 50 million people all over the world. Throughout its several editions, teachers have consistently reported that it works. Their students learn English well when they study with Interchange.”

 

“This kind of anecdotal evidence is interesting in its own right, but data tell a better story. This paper reports on two independent studies on how well students learn English when they study with Interchange. In each case, the results indicate that teachers are right. Interchange works.”

 

Download the Whitepaper

(Links to Cambridge’s external resource in their original location).

 

This is why Yes, Learn has reviewed this course and with consultation agreed to add it to the courses that we offer.

Every unit in Interchange Fifth Edition contains two cycles, each of which has a specific topic, grammar point, and function. The units in Level Intro contain a variety of exercises, including a Snapshot, Conversation, Grammar focus, Pronunciation, Discussion (or Speaking), Word power, Listening, Writing, Reading, and Interchange activity. The sequence of these exercises differs from unit to unit.

 

Readings offer updated topics that are relevant to today’s students, while helping them develop a variety of skills such as reading for main ideas, reading for details, and inferencing.

 

Conversations provide speaking and listening practice. They also serve as models for real-world conversations that your students can use in their daily lives.