About the Book

Get Smart — A Multi-skill English Language Course aims at developing the knowledge, skills and understanding of the English language learners in a progressive manner. The series comprises oursebooks for Primers A and B and Primary Classes (Grades 1 to 5), and Workbooks and Literature Readers for Primary Classes (Grades 1 to 5), along with the respective Teacher's Resource Books. These are further complemented by enriching digital content. The series has been developed in sync with the latest guidelines and objectives of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

The series focuses on learning the language skills through literature as well as acquiring the techniques of the grammatical structure of language. The series is, therefore, prepared by a blend of structural, literary and communicative approaches to language learning.

A child-friendly visual analogy makes the content interesting and engaging for the learners. This makes learning much fun, thus, fascinating and motivating the children to learn.

Workbooks are closely aligned to the coursebooks in terms of themes and language concepts. The hands-on and level-appropriate activities enhance reading, listening, speaking, writing, grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and pronunciation skills.

Salient Features of the Workbooks

 Reading Comprehension comprises passages, poems, etc. which are thematically synced with the coursebooks. 

 Sum-up Text includes exercises covering textual questions that develop and test factual, inferential, evaluative and predictive understanding of the lesson.

 Word Wise hones the pronunciation and vocabulary skills of the learners through a wide variety of topics.

Grammar Check consists of explanations and examples followed by exercises that not only help learners understand grammatical concepts but also apply them
in various situations.

 Listener's Lap develops the listening skills of the learners. The corresponding listening texts have been given at the end of the book. 

Speaking Track is meant to hone the speaking skills of the learners.

Pen Down aims at honing the writing skills of the learners. Here, great care has been taken to provide appropriate clues for scaffolding.

All these sections take the content of the coursebook forward, preventing extra effort on the part of the teachers to provide additional practice material to the learners.
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