This 7-level series is designed to work with existing basal ESL series to meet state compliance standards. Topics and Language Competencies corresponds to the lifeskill competencies, topics, language skills, functions, and forms of the CASAS and MELT standards.
Table of Contents:
Unit 1: ON THE JOB
Topics, Language Skills, Language Functions, and Language Forms
Scene 1: A Business-Letter Format
· A business letter
Practice 1: Writing a Business Letter
Scene 2: A Letter of Application
· Letters of application, the business-letter format
Practice 2: Writing a Letter of Application
Scene 3: Contents of a Resume
· Resumes, note-taking
Practice 3: Taking Notes at a Lecture
Scene 4: Harry Protheroe’s Resume
· A brief resume
Practice 4: Preparing Your Resume
Practice 5: Putting It All Together
Scene 5: Job Review
· Job evaluations, job-promotion strategy
Scene 6: Satish Arrived Late for Work Again!
· Problems at work
Practice 6: Communicating About problem Situations
Cross-Cultural Discussion 1: Communicating at Work
Supplemental Activity 1: Tag Questions
Summary: on the Job Checklist
Unit 2: RECREATION AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Topics, Language Skills, Language Functions, and Language Forms
Scene 7: Favorite Recreations and leisure Activities
· Types of recreations, interviewing, and collecting information
Practice 7: Describing Recreations and Leisure Activities
Scene 8: My Favorite leisure Activity Is______.
· Oral presentations, preparing and giving an oral report
Practice 8: Evaluating Oral presentations
Scene 9: Public Entertainment
· Entertainment, advertisements
Practice 9: Defining Types of Public Entertainment
Scene 10: My Favorite Television Program Is_______.
· Television, entertainment, writing and delivering a report
Cross-Cultural Discussion 2: Marriage Customs
Lifeskills/Workskills 1: Public Health Facilities
Supplemental Activity 2: Entertainment Events
Summary: Recreation and Leisure Activities Checklist
UNIT 3: ON WRITING
Topics, Language Skills, Language Functions, and Language Forms
Scene 11: Writing Uppercase Cursive Letters
· Uppercase cursive letters A-M
· Uppercase cursive letters N-Z
Scene 12: Writing Lowercase Cursive Letters
· Lowercase cursive letters a-m
· Lowercase cursive letters n-z
Practice 12: Writing Cursive Letter Combinations
Scene 13: Synonyms are Words That Have the Same Meaning.
· Using a thesaurus, synonyms, cursive writing
Game: Clueword
Scene 14: Essay Questions Require Much More Thought than a Simple Answer.
· Organizing an essay, written exams
Practice 14: Writing an Essay
Scene 15: Research and Read About Your Topic.
· Report and term paper writing
Practice 15: Writing a Report
Cross-Cultural Discussion 3: What Does It Mean?
Supplemental Activity 3: Writing a Short Book Report
Summary: On Writing Checklist
UNIT 4: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
Topics, Language Skills, Language Functions, and Language Forms
Scene 16: The U.S. Government Has Three Branches.
· Tripartite government
Practice 16: The Executive and Legislative Branches
Scene 17: The Bill of Rights
· Personal rights, the U.S. Constitution
Scene 18: The Miranda Rule
· Personal legal rights
Cross-Cultural Discussion 4: Politics and Political parties
The 1040 Tax Form
Scene 19: April 15th–Taxes Due!
· 1040 tax form, tax vocabulary
Practice 19: Determining Who Should File
Lifeskills/Workskills 2: Completing a Tax Form for Juan Garcia
Lifeskills/Workskills 3: Using a Tax Table
Cross-Cultural Discussion 5: A Simple Debate
Supplemental Activity 4: Amendments 11-26
Summary: Democratic Government Checklist
UNIT 5: TECHNOLOGY
Topics, Language Skills, Language Functions, and Language Forms
Scene 20: A Computer System
· Components, Input/Output
Scene 21: A Computer System’s Memory
· RAM, ROM, definitions, acronyms
Practice 21: Choosing a Search Option by Number
Scene 22: A Time Line of Scientific Advances
· Scientific advances, developing technology through the centuries
Practice 22: Describing a Time Line
Scene 23: An Oral Presentation of a Technical Topic
· Researching, note-taking, oral presentation
Practice 23: Evaluating Oral Technical Presentations
Lifeskills/Workskills 4: Continuous Conditional Sentences
Supplemental Activity 5: Using a Library Computer Search
Summary: Technology Checklist
Time Zones in the Continental United States
U.S. Map
World map
Measurements
Temperature: Fahrenheit and Celsius
Useful Words and Expressions
Irregular Verbs
Common Abbreviations
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