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SECOND EDITION
SPEAKING MATTERS. EVOLVE Second Edition is a six-level American English course for adults and young adults, taking students from beginner to advanced levels (CEFR A1 – C1). Drawing on insights from language teaching experts, this student-centred course covers all skills, focuses on the most effective ways to progress in English, and gets students speaking with confidence.
SECOND EDITION
STUDENT’S BOOK with Digital Pack Kathryn O’Dell, Leslie Anne Hendra, and Mark Ibbotson
What makes EVOLVE special? • Student-generated content
• Peer models and content from real students Videos and ideas from our Real Students demonstrate attainable speaking models and provide example responses.
Global research with students revealed the topics and situations they most wanted to talk about and informed the content of the course. • Dedicated speaking lessons
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Enhanced grammar support Additional grammar support, particularly in the early levels, with extra practice. New videos All new Real Student videos and selected new documentaries. New Reading and Listening A selection of the reading and listening texts have been updated. The new texts are contemporary, high-interest, and feature topics from around the world. New in the Second Edition Every unit has a “Time to speak” lesson where students collaborate on engaging tasks created to develop their speaking skills in a safe space.
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What’s new in the second edition? • Enhanced grammar support in the early levels, with extra practice activities at all levels. • New ‘Real Student’ videos (Levels 1–4) featuring 100% new students from a wide range of countries. • Selected new Reading and Listening texts, updated with high-interest topics from around the world. • A wide selection of updated documentary videos. • New ‘Speaking Companion’ (all levels) provides personalized speaking practice. • New ‘Personalized Learning’ (Levels 2–6) offers additional reading and listening practice.
Evolve Second edition is a six-level American English course that gets
students speaking with confidence. Content is based on research into the topics learners need and the situations where they want to speak more confidently. Every unit has a ‘Time to speak’ lesson based on immersive tasks to get students talking and build confidence. Relatable scan and watch videos from real students throughout the book provide peer model examples and realistic targets.
Authors: Lindsay Clandfield, Ben Goldstein, Leslie Anne Hendra, Mark Ibbotson, Ceri Jones, Philip Kerr, Kathryn O’Dell Levels*: 6, Beginner to Advanced Teaching hours: 90–120 *Levels 1–4 available January 2026. Levels 5–6 forthcoming in January 2027
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Nine months, eight countries
Lesson objective
talk about the weather
1 Vocabulary: Describing weather
Cold
Hot
Stormy
drought flood hurricane Extreme
Dark / wet
freezing snowy
boiling sunny
blizzard snowstorm thunder and lightning windy
cloudy foggy humid rainy
Evolve is teacher friendly. We know that whatever we do, our students are going to achieve their goal – they’re going to speak.” Teacher, Brazil “
A 12.01 Listen and repeat the weather words. Can you think of more words for each category? B Look at the list of weather words again. Which are adjectives? Underline them. Which are nouns? Circle them. C Now do the vocabulary exercises for 12.1 on page 156. D Pair work How would you describe your local weather for different seasons? 2 Language in context A 12.02 Listen to the introduction to a radio interview. Who is Jonathan Brookner? Why is he in the studio? B 12.03 Think of three questions you want to ask Jonathan about his trip. Then listen to the interview. Did the interviewer ask the same questions? Jonathan, tell us some more about your adventures. What was the weather like in all these places? Jonathan We experienced every kind of weather possible! In Patagonia, we were in a snowstorm that lasted for three days. It was freezing and so windy ! Host That’s a long time to be in the middle of a snowstorm! Jonathan In Ecuador, it was worse! There was a huge tropical storm, with really heavy rain and thunder and lightning . There were floods , and the roads were closed. We stayed there for a few days to help the local people clean up the mess. Host Did you get any good weather? Jonathan Uruguay had good weather. It was perfect: warm and sunny . Host Thanks Jonathan, let’s take another short break, we’ll be back in two minutes … 12.03 Audio script Host For temperatures, we use degrees . 24ºC = 24 degrees Celsius 65ºF = 65 degrees Fahrenheit
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Unit objectives
talk about the weather describe places, people, and things ask for and give directions write simple instructions create a tourism campaign for your country
Outdoors
Start speaking
A Look at the photo. What’s happening? Where do you think it is? Do you think many people go there? Why or why not? B Would you like to visit a place like this? Why or why not? C
What’s the most amazing outdoor place that you’ve been to or seen in a photo or on TV? Where is it? Why is it special? For ideas, watch Neo’s video.
Is your outdoor place like Neo’s? Real student
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