Put English to Work 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.

«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.»

«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.»

«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.»

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.»

«These four topic-based worktexts are the perfect way to help students master the intricacies of idiomatic English. Noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and adjective phrases are covered in detail to give students ample opportunity to familiarize themselves with the idiosyncrasies of the language. Each book has fifteen self-contained units, presented in order of difficulty. Sample exercises give students the opportunity to work with a large number of expressions that «don't follow the rules.» This allows students to master portions of the language that might otherwise confuse them. Informative and interesting topics motivate students to complete the exercises and get a firm grasp on the idiomatic expressions. Students explore such topics as Family, Entertainment, Politics, Education, Dating, Work, Shopping, Business, and Hobbies. An answer key and index are provided to make self-study and evaluation of progress easy. This is an ideal supplement for any intermediate or advanced course. Instructors concentrating on composition and conversation will find it extremely helpful.»

«Better Writing Through Editing» teaches intermediate students how to edit their own writing for correct sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and expression. Using a systematic approach for studying writing and editing problems, students discover their individual strengths and weaknesses and are encouraged to monitor their own progress. Part 1, Getting Started, begins with a diagnostic self-assessment to determine each students' awareness of typical ESL/EFL editing problems. Students also learn an editing system that they can use to evaluate their own writing. Part 2, Writing Focus, provides practice with a variety of English sentence types and features writing assignments based on a chapter theme and a rhetorical focus. Part 3, Editing Focus, provides clear and simple explanations of typical ESL/EFL editing problems and contains hundreds of practice exercises. The chapters in the Editing Focus section can be done in any order, thus allowing a teacher to customize learning while simultaneously completing the Writing Focus chapters.»

«The grammar and vocabulary found in the «Connect with English» video series comes to life in the pages of this «Grammar Guide». Developmental in nature, it uses examples from the video episodes to illustrate the grammatical structures in both presentation and practice exercises. Ideal for high-beginning to intermediate students, this «Grammar Guide» provides practice with the linguistic building blocks of the language and gives students the opportunity to analyze and review the structures through clear, simple grammar charts and explanations. «Grammar Guide 1» corresponds to episodes 1-12 and covers: Simple present, Simple past, Present continuous, Future: going to, and the Modal: can. «Grammar Guide 2» corresponds to episodes 13-24 and covers: a review of topics of «Grammar Guide 1», Future: will, Modals: have to, could, should, must, may, would, and Verbs followed by infinitives. «Grammar Guide 3» corresponds to episodes 25-36 and covers: a review of topics from «Grammar Guides» 1 and 2, Modals: might, must, Past continuous, Present perfect, Present perfect continuous, Future conditional, and Verbs followed by gerunds. «Grammar Guide 4» corresponds to episodes 37-48 and covers: a review of «Grammar Guides» 1-3, Past perfect, Past perfect continuous, Conditional, Contrary-to-fact, and Passive simple present.»

«The grammar and vocabulary found in the «Connect with English» video series comes to life in the pages of this «Grammar Guide». Developmental in nature, it uses examples from the video episodes to illustrate the grammatical structures in both presentation and practice exercises. Ideal for high-beginning to intermediate students, this «Grammar Guide» provides practice with the linguistic building blocks of the language and gives students the opportunity to analyze and review the structures through clear, simple grammar charts and explanations. «Grammar Guide 1» corresponds to episodes 1-12 and covers: Simple present, Simple past, Present continuous, Future: going to, and the Modal: can. «Grammar Guide 2» corresponds to episodes 13-24 and covers: a review of topics of «Grammar Guide 1», Future: will, Modals: have to, could, should, must, may, would, and Verbs followed by infinitives. «Grammar Guide 3» corresponds to episodes 25-36 and covers: a review of topics from «Grammar Guides» 1 and 2, Modals: might, must, Past continuous, Present perfect, Present perfect continuous, Future conditional, and Verbs followed by gerunds. «Grammar Guide 4» corresponds to episodes 37-48 and covers: a review of «Grammar Guides» 1-3, Past perfect, Past perfect continuous, Conditional, Contrary-to-fact, and Passive simple present.»

«Connect with English» is a soap-opera style video program featuring Rebecca Casey, a young woman who decides to leave her family and friends in Boston to start a new life in California. This all-skills video and comprehensive student text program, enables students to effectively learn English communicate naturally. «Video Script Books» contain complete transcripts of the «Connect with English» episodes which are based on high-interest, universally appealing topics and themes. Authentic language is used to prepare students to communicate in the real world. Videos were filmed on location with high-production values so that students get a realistic glimpse on U.S. life. This is the script for video 1.»

«Connect with English» is a soap-opera style video program featuring Rebecca Casey, a young woman who decides to leave her family and friends in Boston to start a new life in California. This all-skills video and comprehensive student text program, enables students to effectively learn English communicate naturally. «Video Script Books» contain complete transcripts of the «Connect with English» episodes which are based on high-interest, universally appealing topics and themes. Authentic language is used to prepare students to communicate in the real world. Videos were filmed on location with high-production values so that students get a realistic glimpse on U.S. life. This is the script for video 3.»

«Connect with English» is a soap-opera style video program featuring Rebecca Casey, a young woman who decides to leave her family and friends in Boston to start a new life in California. This all-skills video and comprehensive student text program, enables students to effectively learn English communicate naturally. «Video Script Books» contain complete transcripts of the «Connect with English» episodes which are based on high-interest, universally appealing topics and themes. Authentic language is used to prepare students to communicate in the real world. Videos were filmed on location with high-production values so that students get a realistic glimpse on U.S. life. This is the script for video 4.»

Rebecca Casey is a young factory worker who takes care of her father and brother in Boston, Massachusetts. Her dream is to go to college and study music. But at what price?

San Francisco is an exciting city, and Rebecca loves her new life there. She has a new job, a new home, and many new friends. Is it all too good to be true?

A family crisis brings Rebecca home to Boston. Will she be able to leave again?

A determined Rebecca returns to California. She must work hard to pass her final exams, but she also needs to resolve some personal issues. What will the new year bring for Rebecca?

Rebecca Casey must make the toughest decision of her life: to stay with her family and friends in Boston or to move to California to follow her dream. Which will she choose?