Synopses & Reviews
This pack includes the Side by Side Plus 2 Student Book and the Activity & Test Prep Workbook 2.
Side by Side has helped over 25 million students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners. Now, in this special edition for adult learners in standards-based programs, Side by Side Plus builds students' general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work. Easy-to-use teacher support materials include hundreds of multilevel activities and a wealth of supplemental worksheets, achievement tests, and other resources to assure learner persistence and success.
Outstanding Features:
- Picture dictionary lessons introduce unit vocabulary in a clear, easy-to-use format.
- The program's guided conversation methodology integrates grammar, vocabulary, and topics through real-life communication practice that is student-centered, interactive, and fun.
- Standards-based lessons in each unit develop the competencies included in CASAS, BEST Plus, EFF, SCANS, Model Standards, and other major curriculum frameworks and assessment systems.
- Teamwork, critical thinking, and community tasks promote cooperative learning, problem-solving, and civics connections.
- Diverse reading and writing activities include realia, narrative readings, and journal-writing to develop skills for daily life, self-expression, and academic advancement.
- Built-in assessment in each unit includes a check-up test and vocabulary and skill checklists enabling students to assess their progress.
- Side by Side Gazette magazine sections promote learner persistence through high-interest material that students can use in class or on their own, building a bridge between the classroom and the home.
- A Bonus Gazette Audio CD included with the text offers entertaining radio program-style recordings of Gazette activities.
- The Activity & Test Prep Workbook offers all-skills practice, GrammarRaps, and unit achievement tests.
Synopsis
Side by Side has helped over 25 million students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners. Now, in this special edition for adult learners in standards-based programs,
Side by Side Plus builds students' general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work. Easy-to-use teacher support materials include hundreds of multilevel activities and a wealth of supplemental worksheets, achievement tests, and other resources to assure learner persistence and success.
Outstanding Features:
- Picture dictionary lessons introduce unit vocabulary in a clear, easy-to-use format.
- The program's guided conversation methodology integrates grammar, vocabulary, and topics through real-life communication practice that is student-centered, interactive, and fun.
- Standards-based lessons in each unit develop the competencies included in CASAS, BEST Plus, EFF, SCANS, Model Standards, and other major curriculum frameworks and assessment systems.
- Teamwork, critical thinking, and community tasks promote cooperative learning, problem-solving, and civics connections.
- Diverse reading and writing activities include realia, narrative readings, and journal-writing to develop skills for daily life, self-expression, and academic advancement.
- Built-in assessment in each unit includes a check-up test and vocabulary and skill checklists enabling students to assess their progress.
- Side by Side Gazette magazine sections promote learner persistence through high-interest material that students can use in class or on their own, building a bridge between the classroom and the home.
- An all-in-one teacher support package includes a Teacher's Guide with Multilevel Activity & Achievement Test Book and CD-ROM providing multilevel activities and an array of reproducible masters, worksheets, and tests.
- An Activity & Test Prep Workbook offers all-skills practice, GrammarRaps, and unit achievement tests.
Synopsis
Side by Side Interactive is a two-level multimedia software program designed to put students in control of their language learning through CD-ROM technology. The program combines interactive video, audio, graphics, and text to provide students with powerful learning tools and abundant exercises and activities for effective language instruction that is individualized, self-paced, easy-to-use, and fun!
- An innovative video player enables students to control and interact with entertaining video material, including comedy sketches, interviews, rap numbers, and music videos.
- A record and compare function allows students to record their own voices and then compare with the video.
- Video-based activities make language practice come alive as students interact with video clips in a variety of exercises.
- Comprehensive text-based activities offer extensive vocabulary, grammar, and reading practice.
- Writing activities include instant-feedback keyboarding practice, video dictations, short-answer exercises, and open-ended questions that prompt students to share their own backgrounds and ideas.
- Games provide motivating self-paced practice to develop students¿ vocabulary.
- GrammarToon computer animations focus on key language structures through entertaining cartoons.
- Lifeskills and civics lessons integrate language competencies required by adult education curriculum standards.
- Check-Up tests offer students instant feedback and valuable test-prep practice.
System Requirements
FOR WINDOWS
- Intel Pentium processor-minimum 200 MHz
- Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP
- 64 MB RAM minimum
- CD-ROM drive (12x or faster)
- SVGA monitor capable of supporting 800 x 600 resolution at 16-bit
- Sound card/speakers/microphone
- QuickTime 5.0 or higher
FOR MACINTOSH
- PowerPC processor-minimum 200 MHz
- Mac OS 8.1, 8.5, 9.0, 9.2
- 64 MB free RAM minimum
- CD-ROM drive (12x or faster)
- SVGA monitor capable of supporting 800 x 600 resolution at 16-bit
- Virtual memory should be turned on
- Microphone
- QuickTime 5.0 or higher