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Preface

India’s National Education Policy 2020 charts out a appreciation. The authors have kept away from the
landmark re-orientation of the approach to teaching trend of going overboard to make everything look
and learning at the school level. It recommends and sound western just because these are English
transformative changes in content, curriculum, textbooks. Instead, the content here has distinctive
assessment and pedagogy. In order to benefit from Indian flavour, while not compromising on the
these changes and to align teaching and learning to structures, rigour and standards of international
the curricular goals set by the National Curriculum English.
Framework of 2023, both learners and educators
will need to step beyond the boundaries of regular PresentaƟ on
textbooks and towards contextual, co-curricular In any book meant for children, pictures
and activity-based learning. Real English fulfils this speak louder than text. Designed by a team of
need with custom-built activities leading to the professional illustrators and graphic designers,
acquisition of specific language skills and clearly- Real English is a colourful and well-laid-out
defined learning outcomes. The activities prompt textbook series. The captivating illustrations in
learners to enquire, think, discover, understand, this series are insightful and actively engage the
apply, communicate and solve problems. learners’ imagination.

The Package Support Material

Real English is a series for classes 1–8. Its Digital content provided online includes audio
components are: coursebook, supplementary components of the listening tasks, interactive
reader, workbook, teacher’s resource pack, sessions for practice in comprehension, vocabulary
mobile apps and the online support website and grammar, and printable worksheets,
vivadigital.in. The coursebook has carefully constituting a self-contained learning experience.
graded exercises on comprehension, vocabulary, The teacher’s resource pack includes lesson
grammar, listening and speaking, sounds and plans, the e-coursebook and animated lessons,
pronunciation, and writing, apart from activities besides the test generator software application.
and games. Within each section the tasks involve Teachers will find in the resource pack not only
varying levels of challenge and difficulty so that they guidance on every component of the course but
can be attempted by learners with different levels also answer keys to practice tasks and exercises. The
of ability. The workbook reinforces the concepts animations will make teaching and learning both
learnt in the coursebook through extra exercises. lively and rewarding. A range of online materials
The teacher’s resource pack offers all-round aid for including answer keys and worksheets are also
effective classroom teaching. available for free download to registered users at

vivadigital.in. Another highlight of this NEP-aligned
Text and Themes
edition is the range of activity sheets and printables
The reading text in Real English includes stories, for teachers which will help them conduct the
anecdotes, biographies, episodes of history, folk special Agile Learning tasks effectively in the
tales, real-life stories, factual writing, plays, poems classroom.
and rhymes. The pluralistic and representative We are confident that Real English will give
selection of classic and contemporary literature learners a rich and fulfilling language-learning
aims at developing exemplary standards of literary experience.