Be Yourself is a four-level American English series written especially for high school students in Mexico following the DGB program that focuses on generic and disciplinary competencies It features motivating topics that are relevant to students lives and to the world around them.
In Be Yourself, we introduce language in context and ask students to notice and practice language in meaningful ways, using an eclectic approach that incorporates the best from modern communicative language teaching. The series also includes the use of technology as an aid to language learning. Using Be Yourself, high school students are helped to become more autonomous and to think critically about the world and their place in it.
The Be Yourself series:
• develops students generic and disciplinary competencies clearly and effectively.
• provides a strong link between the classroom and the real world through motivating, fun and up-to-date topics and activities.
• provides regular opportunities for personalization
• helps students learn to read critically, express their opinions effectively and reflect on language as a tool for logical thinking
aids students in the effective use of electronic resources and broadens their horizons.
promotes group work.
• encourages self and peer evaluation.
• helps students appreciate Mexico s cultural diversity as well as that of other parts of the world.
• provides links across the curriculum.
