Read This is a three-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. Read This, Level 1 contains fifteen fascinating stories relating to the fields of Communication, Technology, Mathematics, Business, and Engineering. For example, students read about a novelist in Japan who wrote a novel on her cell phone, how music and mathematics are connected, and how the richest woman in the world made her fortune by recycling trash. These non-fiction stories are written in an accessible narrative style and are appropriate for high beginning to low intermediate-level students. Illustrated with attractive color photos, this low-level reading book is a perfect introduction for students who need to begin reading content-rich texts.

Read This is a three-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. The Teacher's Manual provides some general strategic information on how to use the Student's Book, an Answer Key to all exercise material in the Student's Book, photocopiable student tests for each unit, and the answers to those tests.

Contact USA 2, by Paul Abraham and Daphne Mackey, is a lower-level addition to the successful Contact USA series. Contact USA 2 introduces low-intermediate students to U.S. culture through relevant topics such as friends, family, education, and movies while preparing students for the challenges of academic reading.