The series is specially designed for students from intermediate to proficiency level. Each book consists of five modules and provides systematic preparation in all four language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - required at these levels. The Student/s Book and the Workbook are designed to be covered in approximately 100 to 120 hours of classroom work.The Workbooks for Upstream Intermediate to Proficiency each comprise ten themed units with a variety of realistic and challenging tasks and exercises divided into clear sections for Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening & Speaking and Writing as well as tapescripts of all the Listening exercises.The Workbook for Upstream Intermediate consists of two parts. Part A contains Vocabulary, Grammar, Communication, Reading, Listening and Writing sections with a variety of motivating tasks and useful exercises. Part B is a complete grammar supplement, containing a clear presentation of theory and systematic practice of the grammar dealt within the course.The Teacher/s Books for the Student/s Books contain step-by-step teaching notes, extra ideas for optional activities, a full key to the exercises in the Student/s Books and tapescripts of the listening exercises. The Teacher/s Books for the Workbooks contain overprinted answers on the relevant pages of the Student/s Workbooks.The Test Booklets contain photocopiable assessment tests as well as a mid-year and exit test allowing teachers to assess students/ progress throughout the course.Key Featurestheme-based units from a wide variety of sourcesa variety of cross-cultural and cross-curricular topicssystematic development of all four language skills through realistic challenging tasks which encourage the learner/s personal engagementlexical exercises practising and activating all essential vocabulary including collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs, word formation and everyday Englisha variety of authentic stimulating reading and listening tasksgrammar sections