In each of the seven student texts, ESL students acquire general vocational and pre-vocational skills as they follow the workplace experience of several characters. The series offers realistic suggestions for getting hired, keeping a job, acquiring a promotion, and other job-related situations. This is the literacy level student book.

«It's ESL for the world of work! Contemporary's «Put English to Work» integrates competencies, structures, and functions within a communicative model. Students acquire general vocational and pre-vocational skills — a perfect prescription for vocation and workplace ESL programs and one that's flexible enough for general adult ESL/ESOL programs, too. Each of the seven books follows the workplace experiences of several characters: getting hired, keeping a job, and working toward promotion, along with occasional returns to pre-employment. Accompanying audio cassettes provide recorded dialogues from the texts and other listening exercises. The instructor's manual contains lesson plans, extension activities, grammar explanations, answer keys, and tape scripts.»