"Global" is a new six-level general English course for adult learners. It is an information-rich course, sophisticated in both presentation and approach. It has international appeal, combining challenging content, intelligent topics and cross-cultural awareness. It features none of the celebrity-driven lifestyle content often found in typical general English courses for adults. The Global approach is fully aware of the needs of today's learners, and places an emphasis on effective communication in English between both native and non-native speakers. "Global" helps users to learn English, to learn about English and to learn through English, and is the ideal course for students who want to communicate in a global environment.
Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and international author from Canada. He is the main author of Macmillans new award-winning and critically acclaimed adult course Global (2010) and was a part of the author team for the popular Straightforward Series. Lindsay has won prestigious recognition for his writing, most notably for Global and Dealing with Difficulties (Delta Publishing, with co-author Luke Prodromou) both of which earned him a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from the Duke of Edinburgh. After teaching in Mexico, Spain and the UK Lindsay began his writing career with the website Onestopenglish. He became a regular after winning the Lesson Share competition three times in a row. Rebecca Robb Benne is co-author (with Lindsay Clandfield) of the Intermediate and Upper-intermediate levels of Macmillan's new adult course Global, and co-author (with Jon Hird) of the Advanced level of the modular course Move. She has also written various other courses and resource materials for teenagers. Rebecca has been involved in language teaching at all levels for twenty years as a teacher, editor and writer. She holds a BSc and PGCE in French and German, and an MSc in Applied Linguistics, and has taught English, French and German in the UK, Germany and Denmark. Her main interests, are materials and course design, cultural awareness and motivation. Robert Campbell has worked as a teacher, an ELT magazine editor, and an author. He has written several readers including Owl Hall (Macmillan) which was a finalist in the 2013 ELTon Awards for innovation in learner resources, and the Extensive Reading Foundation Learner Literature Awards. In 2013 he won a Learner Literature Award for his reader The Green Room (Helbling). Robert is one of the co-authors of the secondary course English in Motion (Richmond Publishing). He is also one of the authors of the award-winning Global eWorkbook (Macmillan). For many years he edited and published iT's for Teachers, a magazine for teachers of English. He also published magazines for British Council students worldwide. He has created web sites for several ELT publishers and produced the audio and video components for many courses. In his spare time he writes and performs songs. Rawdon Wyatt.
