1. Margarita Hanschmidt, Helje Kaskel, Mikael Davies et al  Varied and challenging  Wide variety of themes  Cultural information  Exam help  Balanced development of all language skills

2.  A wide range of interesting topics with subtopics  Grammar + Refresh exercises  Writing skills  Extracts from modern English literature  Culture tips  Humorous listening and reading texts  Nice photos and illustrations  New toolboxes  Songs and poems  Personal CD-ROM

3.  Balanced development of reading, listening, writing and speaking skills  Much attention to vocabulary, reading comprehension, pronunciation, intonation, spelling  A separate grammar section and a dictionary  Project-based learning  Much pair work and group work  Cultural advice on how to behave in English speaking countries

4.  CD/CD-ROM with material for individual work  For listening  main texts  Grammar practice  Vocabulary exercises  Text-related tasks and exercises  Listening practice  Refresh tasks

5. INTROKEY TEXTS COMPREHENSION (READING, LISTENING) TALKING, ELABORATION Working with words Freehand Write on Listening Pronunciation Culture tips Projects In addition: translation exercises, idioms, learning skills (Tool boxes), read on texts, crosswords.

6.  In Touch 1: Guessing the meaning; Guessing what the text is about; Explaining words; Grouping; Using a dictionary; Jogging your memory  In Touch 2: Scanning, skimming; Elaboration; Inferring; Summarizing; Taking notes; Peer teaching; Selecting words to remember  In Touch 3: Tuning into the text; Set expressions; Making it personal; Activating prior knowledge; Pre- taught vocabulary; Semantic mapping  In Touch 4: Listing the main points; Making a mind map; Listing questions; Story grammar; Linguistic clues

21.  In Touch 3 ◦ 1 Dreams (future choices, dilemmas, conflicts) ◦ 2 A class of your own (different school systems, problems, cheating, exhange students, relationships, difficult people) ◦ 3 My brilliant career (job satisfaction, summer jobs, odd jobs, how to start a company, pitfalls, elevator speeches, first aid) ◦ 4 Celebrating creativity and Christmas (benefits, keys, Estonian culture, ideal teacher, traditions)  In Touch 4 ◦ 1 Open House (town v. countryside, flat-hunting, classifieds, unemployment, homeless people, Estonian architecture) ◦ 2 Rest and Recreation (services, shopping, shopaholics, eating, vegetarianism, cultural differences, generation differences) ◦ 3 Opposites attract (love, marriage, children, cohabitation, gender equality, values, virtues, vices, moral compass) ◦ 4 Do the right thing (honesty, multicultural diversity, netiquette, crime & punishment, politics, football hooligans, safe environment)

22.  Each unit: aims and lesson plans  Additional material: role plays, vocabulary development, pronunciation practice, games and quizzes (incl. transparencies)  A key to all exercises  Suggestions regarding language portfolios  Transcripts  CD includes listening material from the textbook

23.  vocabulary and grammar tests  reading comprehension  writing tasks  speaking tasks  includes a key

24. In Touch 1 & 2 for form 10 In Touch 3 & 4 for form 11 In 2010 In Touch 5 & 6 for form 12

25.  Web environment - downloadable online materials:  tests  additional materials  tips and advice  updates