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Speak Up & Speak Up Plus – A Complete Speaking Curriculum for Young Learners

Speak Up and Speak Up Plus are comprehensive English speaking series designed to help elementary and middle school students build strong communication skills through engaging tasks, storytelling, and structured speech practice. Both series follow a step-by-step framework that encourages learners to express themselves clearly and confidently—preparing them for real-life communication and performance-based evaluations.

Speak Up: Fun and Practical Communication for Young Learners

Speak Up focuses on early learners, introducing essential speaking skills through fun, relatable cartoon characters and everyday situations. Each unit follows a consistent structure with clear speech tasks, designed to help students internalize useful expressions and sentence patterns.

Key Features:

• 10 Units + 2 Reviews, suitable for CEFR A1–A2 (Lexile 10L–570L)
• Cartoon-style storytelling led by a cast of lively characters
• Speaking tasks with a Speech Frame, broken down into steps
• Personalized sentence writing and speech presentation activities
• Board games and creative tasks to review and reinforce speech content
• Portfolio pages for reflection and practice
• Model presentations by native-speaking children
• Fully supported by audio, video, eBooks, PPTs

Learners first explore the topic through engaging visuals and short dialogues, then move into sentence creation and speech building, finishing with a presentation. The format makes public speaking feel natural and achievable.

Speak Up Plus: Advanced Skills and Debate for Confident Communicators

Speak Up Plus expands on the foundation built in Speak Up. Targeted at upper elementary and lower secondary students, it introduces more complex speech tasks and discussion-based learning, helping learners transition from structured speaking to critical thinking and debate.

Key Features:

• 10 Units + 2 Debate Units, suitable for CEFR A2–B2 (Lexile 290L–885L)
• Three authentic examples per unit: dialogue, speech, and passage
• Step-by-step speech construction using an organized Speech Frame
• Shadow speaking practice to improve pronunciation and fluency
• Grammar and vocabulary tied directly to each topic
• Structured debate sections to encourage expressing opinions
• Activities emphasize intro-body-conclusion speech structure, allowing students to build complete, coherent presentations.
• Debate Units foster teamwork, logical thinking, and persuasive speaking through guided argument activities.

Resources for Both Series:

All titles come with a Student Book, Workbook, and Script & Answer Key. Teachers benefit from free access to:

• MP3s, PPT slides, eBooks
• Unit tests and lesson plans
• Word lists and sentence-building activities
• Portfolios and worksheets

 

Whether your students are just starting to speak English or preparing for academic speaking tasks and internal assessments, Speak Up and Speak Up Plus offer a comprehensive, engaging solution.

 

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