Finding Family uses a continuing storyline to provide a rich, high-interest context that helps students use all language skills. The story focuses on the lives of six immigrant students and their teacher, Veronica. The storyline contains authentic situations (feelings about leaving home, separation from family, adjusting to a new culture, making new friends, falling in love, and finding “family”) that immigrants in the United States face, allowing students to immediately identify with these situations and prompt them to consider their own lives. These are stories of resilience and twists of fate, of working hard and finding help where you least expect it. The stories, together with the discussion activities, comprehension tasks, and vocabulary exercises, provide rich opportunities for extension and application to the lives of students who use the book. Although the readings and vocabulary are a big part of each chapter, this textbook provides ample speaking and writing practice.

Games, crossword puzzles, class mingles, flashcards, fluency circles, end-of-unit progress checks, you'll find all this and more in this dynamite volume of reproducible, ready-to-use material! Ideal for beginning English classes, this resource will surely prove a life-saver to the harried teacher. Activities cover introductions, classroom items, dates/days of the week, jobs, families, household chores, shopping, dealing with money, getting around town, making appointments, the weather//easons, transportation, and more. Consider it an "instant classroom!" Includes a section of teaching suggestions and answers where applicable, and can be used independently or in conjunction with the Student Book.

This innovative, activity-packed textbook gets beginning learners of English on their feet and speaking the language from day one! Addressing SCANS competencies and CASAS requirements, Out and About provides a language syllabus for adults of all ages.Through Out and About's dynamic, student-centered approach, students will:? learn to communicate in everyday situations--from the classroom to the doctor's office;? master useful vocabulary related to everyday topics, including housing, clothing, and shopping;? acquire important life skills through practical, hands-on activities related to reading maps, making appointments, and talking on the phone;? build valuable study skills and critical thinking skills;? gain independence and confidence!Each unit provides a well-defined series of picture-based vocabulary activities followed by contextualized, multi-skill practice activities. Key language and vocabulary are recycled and reinforced in creative and stimulating ways.Out and About celebrates the diversity of the language classroom and the world we live in. Every effort has been made to avoid stereotypes. In doing so, Out and About features people of various ethnic backgrounds, women in traditionally male occupations, and non-traditional families, such as single-parent families and same-sex couples. Students will also learn language for expressing food restrictions determined by religious custom or cultural preference.