Inspiration is a fresh four-level course designed to take teenagers from beginner to intermediate level. It strikes the perfect balance between teaching grammar points and praticing the target language in a communicative context. Inspiration Level 2 has been highly commended for the prestigious HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Award for 2005. American Inspiration is the Americanized version.

Key features:

- Inspiration Extra! sections contain revision and extension exercises, as well as creative project work, songs, games, puzzles, tongue twisters and sketches to act out

- Culture sections build cross-cultural awareness and encourage discussion

- Review sections at the end of every unit offer opportunities for revision and self-assessment progress checks

- A detailed Grammar Summary is given at the back of the Studen't Book

- Skills are developed in the main lessons and the Integrated Skills lesson in each unit

Inspiration offers the following components:

- The Student's Book combines a strong skills syllabus with motivating topics and activities

- The Workbook follows the Student's Book structure with additional exercises, including brainteasers, crosswords, a unit-by-unit story for extensive reasing, and suggestions for further reading and follow-up work on the internet

- The Teacher's Book includes suggestions for warners, optional and follow-up activities, and additional cultural information

- Inspiration Builder is a teacher's resource pack with addtional photocopiable material designed to suit mixed ability classes

- The editable Test CDs include short tests on grammar and vocabulary. medium-lenght tests on language and integrated skills, a placement test, mid-course tests and end-of-terms tests. Each CD covers two levels, with an extra audio CD providing recored material.

- American Inspiration offers Grammar Presentation Posters (60x90 cms.), designed to help the teacher present grammar points from each unit

Level 1

- Present simple: be, all forms

- Possessive and demostrative adjectives

- Present simple: have, all forms

- Regular and irregular plurals

- can/can't for ability

- Imperatives

- Present simple, all forms

- Adverbs of frequency

- There is/There are

- Present progressive

- Comparative and superlative adjectives

- Past simple: was/were

- some/any + countable and uncontable nouns

Level 2

- Present simple vs present progressive

- should/shouldn't

- Gerunds

- Past simple, all forms

- Past progressive

- Future: going to, all forms

- Objective pronouns

- Presente perfect

- have to/don't have to

- Participal adjectives

- Infinitive of purpose

Level 3

- Future: going to/will/won't

- Verb/preposition + gerund

- Likes and dislikes

- Present simple passive

- which/who

- Second conditional

- Modals of advice, deduction. obligation and permission

- Reflexive pronouns

- Linking words: however/and/so/because/although

- First and second condiitonals

- Present perfect: just/already/yet/ever/never/for/since

- Past perfect

- used to + infinitive

- do vs make

- Reported statements and questions

- Past modals: should have/might have, etc.

- Question tags

Level 4

- want to/would like to

- Verb + infinitive/-ing

- Present perfect progressive: for/since

- Past perfect progressive vs past perfect simple

- Comparison of adverbs

- Adverbs of degree

- Result clauses: so/such..that

- Adjective order

- Future progressive and future perfect

- First conditional + unless/as long as/provided that

- Present tenses in future time clauses

- I wish../if only...+ past simple or past perfect

- would for requests

- Indirect and embedded questions

- Causative: have/get something done

- either... or/both...and 

Inspiration

- Student's Book

- Workbook

- Teacher's Book

- Audio CD

- Inspiration Builder

- Tests CD

American Inspiration

- Student's Book Pack

- Workbook

- Teacher's Pack

- Class Audio CD

- Grammar Presentation Posters

- test CD (all levels)

(The Student's Book Pack contains the Student's Book and the Student's CD. The Teacher's Pack contains the Teacher's Edition and the Teacher's CD-ROM)