NEW - An appealing, engaging and thoroughly revised textbook for Transition Year English with a huge choice of texts and activities for students and teachers to explore. Designed to help students make the transition from the Junior to the Leaving Certificate cycle, and to introduce them to new and more challenging concepts and skills. Completely redesigned with a vibrant, lively and attractive layout. Concise aims for each unit will help students to understand the context of the material and reinforce their learning. Develops key skills in comprehending and composing (worth up to 50% of the marks at Leaving Certificate English) Includes a revised selection of texts that students will find stimulating, engaging and enjoyable: Roddy Doyle's short story 'New Boy', William Wallace's speech in Braveheart, Sixteen-year-old Hannah Nelson's 'Enduring Peace' speech in Belfast. Film-making project where students are challenged to create their own short film of a studied short story. Humorous writing by comedian Colm O'Regan. Brian Boyd's Irish Times article on song at Manchester United. Tim Pat Coogan's analysis of 'The Fields of Athenry'. The chilling short story ‘Aisling' by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner Colum McCann. Tobias Wolff's imaginative and provocative story ‘Bullet in the Brain'. New Short Fiction unit introduces the comparative writing task and develops essential Leaving Certificate comparative analysis skills. New media and multimodal texts to encourage discussion and analysis at group level