In terms of looks, the Student’s Book is visually attractive, with vibrant colours, crisp photography and a pleasing colour scheme to herald the start of each unit. It has a fresh look, with many photos being eye-catching and exploitable. What I would say, however, is that some of the pages feel crowded, with too many exercises, sections, boxes, fonts and visuals assaulting the eye. As a teacher-user, what I found bewildering was the use of little ‘cog’ symbols, some of which also had a little backwards-pointing arrow over them. These cogs refer to ‘on’ and ‘off’ skills: ‘on’ skills are the ones developed through sub-skills and ‘off’ skills are the ones that are practised. The arrowed cogs are the recycled ‘on’ skills. Confusing. And their purpose only becomes clear in the Teacher’s Book,