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Preface

IMAX partners with schools, supporting them with learning materials and processes that are
all crafted to work together as an interconnected system to drive learning. Our books strive
to ensure inclusiveness in terms of gender and diversity in representation, catering to the
heterogeneous Indian classroom.
IMAX presents the Traveller series, designed specifically to meet the requirements of the
new curriculum released in November 2016 by the Council for the Indian School Certificate
Examinations (CISCE).

Guiding principles:
The 2016 CISCE curriculum states the following as a few of its guiding principles for English
language teaching:
 Connecting learning to life in the outside world
 Integrating English with other subjects across the curriculum
 Using meaningful contexts to develop language as a whole
 Making assessment for learning an integral part of the teaching-learning process
 Ensuring active participation of children by using a variety of activities and tasks
Each of these principles resonates with the spirit in which the IMAX textbooks, workbooks
and teacher companion books have been designed. The IMAX team of pedagogy experts
has carried out an intensive mapping exercise to create a framework based on the CISCE
curriculum document.
Key features of IMAX Traveller series:

 Books for English are mapped to the assessment patterns of English-I and English-II in
ICSE schools.
 The grammar concepts covered in English-I have a horizontal and vertical
progression across the grades, providing a spiral of learning.
 The writing sections contain a wide variety of topics with a focus on process-based

writing in higher grades.
 The English-II book also covers all the themes recommended by the CISCE
curriculum across classes 1–5.

 A hallmark of ICSE English is a wide representation of authors – Indian and foreign.
The Traveller series includes pieces by writers such as Charles Dickens, Rabindranath
Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain among others.

 Vocabulary building is a key focus area for IMAX. Pictures for word meanings are
included in each lesson to help students with visual clues for new or difficult words.
All in all, the Traveller series aims to generate greater engagement and enhance fluency in
English communication, which spans all the four skills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and
Writing.

– The Authors

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