This new edition of NEW WAVE is an exciting multiple-skills course for pre-primary, primary, and middle school classes. The principal objective of the course is to develop the school learner’s linguistic proficiency and communicative competence. It also aims to develop the generic skills of creativity, decision making, and critical thinking. The skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing have been given special attention to cater for the changing needs of young learners today.

• Interesting lead-ins to introduce the reading texts

• A rich tapestry of multicultural reading texts
• A sparkling choice of traditional and modern poems for literary appreciation
• A wide assortment of stimulating comprehension exercises
• A clear presentation of grammatical concepts along with well-crafted practice exercises
• Finely tuned word-building activities, including crosswords and puzzles
• Creative and functional writing tasks, each preceded by preparatory notes for writing
• Compelling listening tasks to encourage listening for meaning and listening with a purpose
• Stimulating speaking activities to provide practice in context-based language use as well as pronunciation, stress, and intonation