Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Optimise Stars

 

Year published/aired: 2024 ? 

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# of episodes: 10 units each

Grade: A2-B2

Genres: Everyday's situations ?

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Production company: Macmillan

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Media: digital

Media distribution: Macmillan

Additional media: books 

Working material: Jeremy Bowell, Richard Storton, others

Material publisher: Macmillan

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Plot (short): A 4 level secondary course from Macmillan for teenagers. British English. Pics from the sample course videos. Pic 1 from the Speaking test video. Pic 2 from Speaking in the Background. Unknown levels. Clips are digital (digital workbooks/apps).

A companian course is Academy Stars (2nd ed, level A1). There's also Bright Academy Stars. There was an earlier prequel course ~2016 called Optimise (which still needs to be checked). 

Episodes: unknown length, probably short clips (maybe ~2 minutes each?)

Level A2 

Unit 1 Fun times

Reading video: Your favourite places

Gramma video: Present simple and present continuous 

Unit 2 (only grammar video) Past simple

Unit 3 On the move

Reading video: Holidays at home, grammar video  

Unit 4 The world of technology (only grammar video)

Unit 5 My style 

Upcycle your wardrobe! Do it yourself! 

Unit 7 Let's play

The life of an athlete - Girls united

Unit 9 Good for you

Choosing a healthy activity

Unit 10 At home (only grammar video) 

Vocabulary videos

Talking about free-time activities

Explaining likes and dislikes

Asking someone to explain

Talking about preferences

Describing things and giving opinions

Talking about the future

Giving opinions

Talking about a topic

Gicing yourself time to think

Agreeing and disagreeing 

 

Optimise Stars

  Year published/aired:  2024 ?  Year produced/ filmed : # of episodes:  10 units each Grade : A2-B2 Genres: Everyday's situations ? S...