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New Oxford Modern English Book 5

Nicholas Horsburgh and Claire Horsburgh

New Oxford Modern English has established itself as one of the most popular ELT courses among both teachers and students for almost three decades. Taking into account the insightful feedback of its users, the series has been revised regularly to address the evolving needs of the learners. This revised edition includes a host of new features for its users. The series comprises Pre-Primer; Primer A and B with Activity Book; Course books 1–8; Workbooks 1–8, and Teaching Guides. The series has been aligned to Single National Curriculum 2020.

Special Features:

  • A wide range of literary genres and themes from around the world to develop rich language skills
  • New prose and poetry texts
  • New exercises and activities to enhance higher-order thinking skills
  • Enhanced and updated glossary and wordlists
  • Full coverage of all competencies, skills, and learning areas provided in SNC
  • Engaging posters illustrating different literary devices
  • Graphic stories
  • Includes student-friendly formative assessment activities in the workbooks
  • The free of cost teaching guides include a wide range of textbook-linked exercises, answer keys of books and workbooks, lesson plans, formative assessment ideas, and much more.
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PKR 845
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ISBN 9780190706890
Weight in kg 0.385
Readership / Level For Class 5
Rights World
Binding Paperback

Digital Resources for Topics

The following videos explain difficult grammar/vocabulary/comprehension topics in an easy-to-understand and student-friendly manner. Teachers can use these videos to provide further explanation on a topic. These can be shown either in the classroom when the teachers are introducing that topic or assigned to the students as homework activity afterwards.

Each video is linked to a topic present in the book. The exercise reference is given for teachers’ ease.

Video links are also given for certain poems. These can be played aloud in the class so students can recite the poem with correct pronunciation.

Unit

Topic

Video Links

1. The Message of Forgiveness

Ex. C
Suffixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtHPO0Z4io

Shabbir Sharif and the Nishan-e-Haider

Activity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJDpG-oMqw

2. The World in a Wall—Gerald Durrell

Ex. B 2 Collective nouns

Ex. C4 Interjections

Ex. E Paragraph writing: either about an imagined situation on about scorpions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijGfIzT5Ss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDq-kugjd1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2SK0uK2CBg

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening—Robert Lee Frost

Ex. B 1 and 2
Suffix: -y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtHPO0Z4io

3. Does He Remember?

Ex. C 1, 2, and 4
Verbs and adverbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPS8yTS_Gw

4. Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe

Ex. C 1 and 2
Adverbs: comparative
and superlative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLaiF_bVpI

Sour Grapes—Anonymous

Ex. C
Subject, object, and
predicate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kr7Xt5K2Pw

5. Collecting Things

Ex. C 1
Pronouns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYR8SIQSyu4

The Skylark—Christina Rossetti

Ex. E
Paragraph writing: about a beautiful thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMRTtUrSFOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBFpEdiVVU

6. Perseus and the Gorgon

Ex. C 1
Past Continuous Tense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5a4loCoAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54prMaPn5Ls

A Misspelled Tale —Elizabeth T. Corbett

Ex. B 1 and 2
Homophones

Ex. C 1 and 2
Conjunctions: and, but,
so, because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7AkNKZsV-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwzdAPQ8wqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAEvyDdYQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC1eKv7omas

6. Bahlol

Ex. B 2
Abbreviations

Ex. C 2
Adverbs of Manner

Ex. E
Summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVAYGVApGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxNKUKWNDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_8l4MgJzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsB73dRuGcE

8. Uncle Shams

Ex. B 1
Opposites

Ex. B 2
Anagrams

Ex. B 4
Contractions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7I_QWiEolQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdT3uCJYMGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gubPH3WEurg

Everyone Sang—Siegfried Sassoon

Ex. B 1
Anagrams

Ex. C 1
Participles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anoknbfyEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv2PcZcjAsY

9. A Flash of Light

Ex. C 2
Adverbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9_8l4MgJzU

The Road Not Taken—Robert Frost

Ex. B 3
Synonyms

Ex. C 1
Subject and predicate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsymSeFMaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuXBh78Jkik

9. Karate Parrot

Ex. C 2
Adjectives – Comparatives and Superlatives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0RBX1rEag

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now—A.E. Housman

Ex. C
Wh- words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3psf-GxIBGI

11. Farming in Pakistan

Ex. B 3
Feminine and Masculine words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um4suK9PtJ4

12. The Problem with Plastic

Ex. B 3
Analogies

Ex. C 1
Phrases and Clauses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBBylNNf6A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37O08lVFsbs

13. The Olympic Games

Ex. E
Transitional Devices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTmCWLIA0K8

14. Thinking about Role Models

Ex. E
Letter Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2d-0dIimgY