Category: English Language Teaching
English Quill Coursebook 2
English Quill is a multi-skill course for English that aims to address the needs of the learners, as underlined in the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023, one of whose underlying principles is a concerted shift towards competency-based learning. This series is distinct in its inclusion of curricular goals, mapped to the respective competencies outlined by the new NCF. It focuses on literacy through thoughtfully curated content, exercises, and activities that will help to develop the 3Hs – Curious Heads, Skilled Hands, and Compassionate Hearts.
English Quill is a multi-skill course for English that aims to address the needs of the learners, as underlined in the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023, one of whose underlying principles is a concerted shift towards competency-based learning. This series is distinct in its inclusion of curricular goals, mapped to the respective competencies outlined by the new NCF. It focuses on literacy through thoughtfully curated content, exercises, and activities that will help to develop the 3Hs – Curious Heads, Skilled Hands, and Compassionate Hearts.
ISBN
9789369890484
Format
Paperback
Latest Edition
2026
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- Listening covers aural comprehension activities, as well as word and sentence-based Dictation tasks.
- Speaking includes role plays, conversation practice and public speaking tasks through solo, pair and group work. It also covers financial literacy tasks.
- Reading comprises a rich variety of texts by global and Indian writers. All reading passages are accompanied by an animation in DigiSuite and tagged by an icon.
- Writing includes graded and free composition. Poetry chapters include Activity, a hands-on creative task.
- Grammar includes graded practice tasks accompanied by simple explanations, and language booster which gives additional information about the topic.
- Vocabulary includes exercises on contextual usage, modes of language acquisition and figures of speech.
- Curricular goals are mapped to the respective Competencies outlined in the NCF 2023
- While-reading in-text questions check factual understanding.
- Comprehensions checks factual and conceptual understanding through ‘wh-’, objective questions, reference to context and competency-based questions of various types.
- Glossary includes contextual meanings of difficult words.
- Projects cover cross-curricular activities aligned to the unit themes. They also include ‘bagless day’ activities.
- Coursebooks 1 to 8
- Language Companions 1 to 8
- Teacher’s Resource Books 1 to 8
- Collins DigiSuite for Teachers and Students
- Pronounce tool for pronunciation and speech practice
- Multimedia eBooks offer interactive learning with videos, animations, presentations, and audio for better concept comprehension and retention.
- The audio feature offers a flexible learning experience by allowing students to listen to chapters. It also helps auditory learners and those with reading difficulties comprehend course material easily.
- Interactive slideshows combine engaging visuals and concise text to help students better grasp concepts.
- Interactivities engage students through quizzes, games, and more. Active participation leads to better retention of the concepts covered.
- Animations simplify complex concepts with clear audio and engaging visuals, making it easy for students to understand.
- Lesson plans offer comprehensive guidance for teachers, including pre-, post-, and while-reading activities, teaching strategies, and learning objectives.
- Additional worksheets are provided for practice and reinforcements.
- The question paper generator enables educators to create, organize and assess students’ understanding with a question bank based on Bloom’s taxonomy.
Suchismita Banerjee holds an MPhil degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been working in the field of children’s publishing with a special focus on early learning for the past twenty years.
Rashi Ravi Ganguly has been a teacher of English and is an ELT materials writer