Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 PDFs & Resources is a comprehensive digital collection for Pre-A1 teenage English learners beginning their journey toward confident communication in American English.
Published by National Geographic Learning, Time Zones Third Edition combines striking photography, engaging global topics, video, carefully structured language practice, and inspiring stories about people and places around the world. The result is a visually rich English course designed to encourage teenage learners to explore the world while developing practical language skills.
This Level 1 package brings together the Student’s Book, Teacher’s Book, Workbook, Workbook with Answer Keys, audio, video, tests, ExamView resources, and a CEFR correlation document. With nine listed digital components, it provides extensive support for classroom teaching, homework, lesson preparation, revision, multimedia learning, and assessment.
Product Overview
- Product: Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 PDFs & Resources
- Series: Time Zones, Third Edition
- Level: Level 1
- CEFR level: Pre-A1
- Publisher: National Geographic Learning
- Language: American English
- Target learners: Teens / Secondary
- Course type: General English
- Included components: 9 digital resources
- Delivery: Digital download
- Physical shipping: Not included
Included Files and Resources
Time Zones 3ed 1 Audio
Time Zones 3ed 1 cefr correlation.pdf
Time Zones 3ed 1 ExamView
Time Zones 3ed 1 Student’s Book.pdf – Sample: Click
Time Zones 3ed 1 Teacher’s Book.pdf – Sample: Click
Time Zones 3ed 1 Tests
Time Zones 3ed 1 Video
Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook with Answer Keys.pdf
Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook.pdf – Sample: Click
About Time Zones Third Edition
Time Zones Third Edition is an English course created for teenage learners who are curious about the world and need a structured pathway for developing practical communication skills.
The series uses powerful photography, updated video content, global topics, and stories of people from different cultures and communities to make English learning more meaningful. Rather than presenting language as an isolated school subject, the course connects English with the real world.
Teacher-tested language lessons and carefully scaffolded activities help learners progress step by step, while visual content and multimedia resources help maintain interest and encourage classroom participation.
Where Are We Going Next?
The central spirit of Time Zones Third Edition can be summarized in one question: Where are we going next?
The course encourages learners to look beyond the classroom, explore different people and places, ask questions, discover new perspectives, and use English as a practical tool for understanding the wider world.
For teenage learners, this global approach can make language study more motivating because grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, and writing are connected to visually engaging topics and real-world contexts.
Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 at Pre-A1
Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 is positioned at Pre-A1, making it suitable for learners at the earliest stages of English development.
At this stage, students need clear language models, carefully controlled vocabulary, repeated exposure, strong visual support, manageable activities, and frequent opportunities to experience success.
Level 1 provides a foundation for future progress by helping learners become familiar with essential English words, phrases, sentence patterns, classroom language, listening input, reading activities, and basic communication.
Designed for Teenage English Learners
Learning materials for teenagers need to balance accessibility with age-appropriate content. Materials that are linguistically simple should not feel childish.
Time Zones addresses this challenge through compelling photography, global topics, video, stories, and real-world contexts that can stimulate curiosity while keeping language support appropriate for beginner learners.
This makes the course especially suitable for secondary students who are beginning English but still need mature, visually engaging content.
Student’s Book PDF
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Student’s Book.pdf provides the central learning pathway for Level 1.
Teachers can use the Student’s Book as the main classroom resource, while learners can use it for lesson follow-up, homework preparation, revision, and guided study.
Its structured progression can support development in vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, pronunciation, and other foundational language areas.
The visually rich design and international topics help connect language learning with people, cultures, places, nature, science, and everyday life.
Teacher’s Book PDF
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Teacher’s Book.pdf provides support for teachers using Level 1 in classrooms, language centers, schools, or private tutoring environments.
A Teacher’s Book can help instructors understand lesson objectives, organize classroom stages, prepare activities, manage language presentation, and make more effective use of the Student’s Book and supplementary resources.
It is particularly useful for teachers planning a structured Pre-A1 course and working with students who need careful scaffolding and regular reinforcement.
Workbook PDF
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook.pdf provides additional practice beyond the main Student’s Book.
Workbook activities can help learners consolidate vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, and other language introduced during lessons.
Teachers can use the Workbook for classroom reinforcement, homework, revision, extra practice, or support for learners who need more repetition.
Workbook with Answer Keys
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook with Answer Keys.pdf combines workbook practice with answers for efficient checking and review.
This version can be particularly useful for teachers, tutors, parents supporting learning, and learners completing carefully guided independent study.
Access to answers makes it easier to review completed work, identify mistakes, revisit difficult areas, and monitor progress.
Audio Resources
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Audio component supports listening comprehension, pronunciation awareness, vocabulary recognition, and familiarity with spoken American English.
At Pre-A1 level, repeated exposure to audio is particularly valuable because learners are still developing the ability to connect written forms with spoken language.
Teachers can use audio for first listening, repeated listening, vocabulary recognition, comprehension checks, pronunciation practice, repetition, and preparation for speaking activities.
Video Resources
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Video component adds a visual dimension to language learning.
Video can help learners connect English with people, places, actions, settings, expressions, gestures, and real-world situations.
For teenage students, visual content can increase curiosity and provide additional context that supports understanding, especially when the language itself is still new.
Teachers can use video for prediction, comprehension questions, vocabulary development, discussion, speaking prompts, review, and follow-up activities.
Tests
The Time Zones 3ed 1 Tests component supports assessment, revision, and progress monitoring.
Teachers can use testing resources to check learner understanding, identify areas that require additional practice, and plan future review more effectively.
Regular assessment can also help learners see evidence of their progress and become more aware of the language areas they have already mastered.
ExamView Resources
The Time Zones 3ed 1 ExamView component provides additional assessment support.
Depending on the included files and the user’s computer environment, ExamView materials may support the creation, organization, or delivery of assessment activities.
Compatibility can depend on the software version, operating system, computer configuration, permissions, and other technical factors. No specific operating system compatibility should be assumed unless explicitly stated in the product details.
CEFR Correlation Document
The Time Zones 3ed 1 cefr correlation.pdf provides additional information connecting course content with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
This can help teachers, schools, language centers, and curriculum planners understand how course objectives relate to internationally recognized proficiency descriptions.
For Level 1, the course is positioned at Pre-A1, providing an early foundation before learners progress toward higher CEFR levels.
Building Essential Vocabulary
Vocabulary development is fundamental at Pre-A1 level because learners need a basic bank of words and expressions before they can communicate more independently.
Visual content can make new vocabulary more memorable by connecting words with photographs, people, objects, places, actions, and situations.
Repeated exposure through the Student’s Book, Workbook, audio, video, tests, and classroom activities helps reinforce recognition and recall.
Developing Listening Skills
Beginning learners need regular opportunities to hear clear spoken English and gradually become familiar with its sounds, rhythm, stress, and basic sentence patterns.
Level 1 can support listening development through repeated exposure and carefully structured practice.
- Recognizing familiar words: Identifying vocabulary already introduced in lessons.
- Understanding simple instructions: Following basic classroom and activity language.
- Listening for key information: Identifying names, numbers, objects, places, or other important details.
- Connecting sound and meaning: Linking spoken words with images and context.
- Building listening confidence: Becoming more comfortable hearing English regularly.
Developing Speaking Confidence
Pre-A1 learners may initially communicate through single words, short phrases, memorized expressions, and simple sentence patterns.
A supportive course should provide manageable speaking opportunities that allow learners to experience success without overwhelming them.
- Repeating useful language: Practicing words, phrases, and simple sentences.
- Answering simple questions: Responding with familiar information.
- Asking basic questions: Using simple language to obtain information.
- Talking about familiar topics: Communicating about people, objects, places, routines, and preferences.
- Building confidence: Gradually becoming more comfortable speaking English aloud.
Reading at Pre-A1 Level
Early reading development involves recognizing familiar words, understanding short phrases and sentences, using visual clues, and connecting written language with known vocabulary.
The visual design of Time Zones can support comprehension by giving learners contextual clues before and during reading.
As students become more confident, they can gradually work with increasingly developed texts and reading tasks.
Writing Foundations
At Pre-A1 level, writing development often begins with letters, words, short phrases, simple sentences, personal information, and highly guided activities.
Structured models can help learners understand how English is organized and give them a foundation for future writing development.
The Workbook and other course activities provide additional opportunities to reinforce written language and consolidate vocabulary.
Grammar in Meaningful Contexts
Beginning learners benefit from clear grammar presentation combined with meaningful examples and controlled practice.
Rather than treating grammar only as abstract rules, effective instruction connects forms with situations and communicative purposes.
Visual contexts, listening, reading, and speaking activities can help learners understand how basic grammatical patterns are used in real communication.
Learning Through Amazing Photography
Photography is an important part of the Time Zones learning experience.
Strong visual content can capture attention, create curiosity, provide cultural and situational context, introduce topics, support vocabulary learning, and encourage discussion.
For Pre-A1 learners, photographs can also reduce the language barrier by giving immediate clues about people, places, objects, actions, and situations.
Exploring the World Through English
Time Zones encourages learners to see English as a way to explore the wider world.
Global topics can expose teenage students to different places, communities, cultures, environments, experiences, and perspectives.
This approach can help build curiosity while giving language learning a clear purpose beyond completing exercises.
Stories of Global Citizens
Stories about people around the world can make language learning more human and memorable.
Teenagers can encounter individuals with different experiences, interests, backgrounds, ideas, and achievements while developing their English skills.
These stories can also provide starting points for vocabulary work, comprehension, speaking, reflection, and classroom discussion.
Carefully Scaffolded Practice
Beginning learners need a clear progression from supported activities toward greater independence.
Scaffolding can include visual clues, models, examples, controlled exercises, guided practice, repetition, and gradual increases in difficulty.
This step-by-step approach can help learners build confidence while reducing unnecessary frustration.
American English
Time Zones Third Edition is an American English course.
Learners are exposed to American English spelling, language conventions, and pronunciation models throughout the course.
This can be particularly valuable for schools and language programs that follow an American English curriculum.
A Complete Multimedia Learning Experience
The combination of Student’s Book, Workbook, Teacher’s Book, audio, video, tests, ExamView, and CEFR correlation resources provides multiple ways to approach learning.
Different learners benefit from different types of input. Some respond strongly to visual content, others need repeated listening, while others benefit from written practice and structured review.
A varied resource package allows teachers to combine these approaches and create more flexible lessons.
Benefits for Teachers
- Complete Level 1 digital resource package
- Student’s Book PDF for structured classroom lessons
- Teacher’s Book PDF for lesson support
- Workbook for additional practice and homework
- Workbook with Answer Keys for checking and review
- Audio for listening and pronunciation practice
- Video for visual context and engagement
- Tests for assessment and progress monitoring
- ExamView resources for additional assessment support
- CEFR correlation document for curriculum reference
Benefits for Learners
- Structured introduction to English at Pre-A1 level
- Age-appropriate content for teenage learners
- American English language model
- Engaging photography and global topics
- Audio support for listening and pronunciation
- Video support for contextual understanding
- Workbook practice for reinforcement
- Step-by-step development of essential language skills
- Opportunities to explore the world through English
- Multiple resources for revision and independent practice
Suitable For
- Pre-A1 English learners
- Teenage and secondary-school students
- True beginners starting American English
- Teachers using Time Zones Third Edition Level 1
- Private tutors and language centers
- Schools following an American English curriculum
- Classroom teaching and homework
- Guided independent study
- Learners who benefit from photography, audio, and video
- Programs requiring assessment and teacher support resources
Suggested Teaching Sequence
- Introduce the topic: Use photography and visual content to activate curiosity.
- Preview key vocabulary: Present essential words and expressions.
- Model the language: Give learners clear examples before independent practice.
- Use the Student’s Book: Work through the main lesson sequence.
- Use audio: Develop listening comprehension and pronunciation awareness.
- Practice speaking: Encourage manageable questions, answers, repetition, and short exchanges.
- Use video: Add visual context and reinforce the lesson topic.
- Assign Workbook practice: Consolidate language through additional exercises.
- Review answers: Use available answer resources for efficient checking.
- Assess progress: Use tests and assessment resources as appropriate.
- Recycle language: Revisit important vocabulary and structures regularly.
Why Choose the Complete Level 1 Package?
A single Student’s Book can provide the main learning pathway, but a complete digital package gives teachers and learners far greater flexibility.
The Student’s Book introduces the core content. The Workbook provides extra practice. The Teacher’s Book supports lesson preparation. Audio develops listening and pronunciation. Video adds visual context. Tests support assessment. ExamView provides additional assessment resources, while the CEFR correlation document helps with curriculum reference.
Together, these materials create a more complete environment for teaching, learning, review, and progress monitoring.
Digital Product Notice
This is a digital download product. No printed books, physical discs, access cards, or other physical items will be shipped.
The package includes only the files and resources specifically listed in this product description. No additional component should be assumed unless explicitly stated.
Online Access and Digital Services
No Spark platform access, activation code, online account, interactive eBook, subscription, online practice, Classroom Presentation Tool, or other digital service should be assumed unless explicitly included in the product details.
This product contains downloadable digital resources only.
ExamView Compatibility Notice
ExamView resources may require compatible software and a suitable computer environment.
Functionality can depend on the specific ExamView version, operating system, processor architecture, security settings, user permissions, and other technical conditions.
No guarantee of compatibility with every current or future operating system should be assumed unless explicitly stated.
File Compatibility
PDF files can be opened with most modern PDF readers on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and compatible mobile devices.
Audio and video playback may depend on the included file formats, operating system, media player, device configuration, and installed codecs.
For the best experience, use a desktop or laptop computer, preserve the original file and folder structure, and ensure that every download has completed before opening the resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
What level is Time Zones Third Edition Level 1?
Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 is positioned at CEFR Pre-A1 and is designed for learners at the beginning stages of English development.
Who is this course designed for?
The series is designed primarily for teenage and secondary-school English learners.
Is Time Zones Third Edition American or British English?
Time Zones Third Edition is an American English course.
How many digital resources are included?
This package contains 9 listed digital components, including the Student’s Book, Teacher’s Book, two Workbook versions, audio, video, tests, ExamView, and a CEFR correlation document.
Does the package include the Student’s Book?
Yes. It includes Time Zones 3ed 1 Student’s Book.pdf.
Does the package include the Teacher’s Book?
Yes. It includes Time Zones 3ed 1 Teacher’s Book.pdf.
Are workbooks included?
Yes. The package includes both Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook.pdf and Time Zones 3ed 1 Wokbook with Answer Keys.pdf.
Is audio included?
Yes. The package includes Time Zones 3ed 1 Audio.
Is video included?
Yes. The package includes Time Zones 3ed 1 Video.
Are tests included?
Yes. The package includes Time Zones 3ed 1 Tests.
Is ExamView included?
Yes. The package includes Time Zones 3ed 1 ExamView. Compatibility may depend on the software version and computer environment.
Is a CEFR correlation document included?
Yes. The package includes Time Zones 3ed 1 cefr correlation.pdf.
Can this package support self-study?
The Student’s Book, Workbook, audio, video, and answer resources can support guided independent study. However, teacher or tutor support may be particularly valuable for young beginner learners, especially for pronunciation, speaking practice, and feedback.
Is this a physical product?
No. This is a digital download product. No printed book, physical disc, access card, or other physical item will be shipped.
Does this product include Spark platform access?
No Spark platform access, activation code, online account, interactive eBook, subscription, or online service should be assumed unless explicitly stated in the product details.
A Complete Pre-A1 English Package for Teenage Learners
Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 PDFs & Resources provides teachers and learners with a comprehensive collection for beginning English study at Pre-A1 level.
With the Student’s Book, Teacher’s Book, Workbook, Workbook with Answer Keys, audio, video, tests, ExamView, and CEFR correlation document, the package supports classroom teaching, homework, lesson preparation, listening practice, visual learning, revision, assessment, and guided independent study.
Through compelling global content, powerful photography, multimedia resources, and structured language practice, Time Zones Third Edition helps teenage learners begin exploring the world through English and build foundations for continued progress.
| Name | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|
| Time Zones Third Edition Starter PDFs & Resources | $10 | |
| Time Zones Third Edition Level 1 PDFs & Resources | $10 | |
| Time Zones Third Edition Level 2 PDFs & Resources | $10 | |
| Time Zones Third Edition Level 3 PDFs & Resources | $10 | |
| Time Zones Third Edition Level 4 PDFs & Resources | $10 | |
| Time Zones Third Edition All 5 Levels | PDFs & Resources | Original price was: $50.$45Current price is: $45. |
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