Synopses & Reviews
This pack includes the Side by Side Plus 1 Student Book and the Activity & Test Prep Workbook 1.
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.
- A Bonus Gazette Audio CD included with the text offers entertaining radio program-style recordings of Gazette activities.
- 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
Table of Contents
("Plus" indicates NEW standards-based lessons in Side by Side Plus 1)
1. To Be: Introduction
Personal Information
Cardinal Numbers
Meeting People
Plus:
Filling Out a Form
Forms of Identification
Addressing an Envelope
Abbreviations in Addresses
2. To Be + Location
Subject Pronouns
Classroom Objects
Rooms in the Home
Cities, Countries, and Nationalities
Places Around Town
Plus:
Classroom Actions
Giving and Following Instructions
3. Present Continuous Tense
Everyday Activities
Plus:
Calling Directory Assistance
Calling 911
Using a Telephone Directory
Side by Side Gazette
4. To Be: Short Answers
Possessive Adjectives
Everyday Activities
Plus:
Civics: Community Service
5. To Be:
Yes/No Answers
Short Answers
Adjectives
Possessive Pronouns
Describing People and Things
Weather
Plus:
Reading a Weather Map
Fahrenheit and Celsius Temperatures
6. To Be: Review
Present Continuous Tense: Review
Prepositions of Location
Describing Activities and Events
Family Members
Plus:
Reading a Family Tree Diagram
Introducing People
Side by Side Gazette
7. Prepositions
There Is/There Are
Singular/Plural: Introduction
Places Around Town
Locating Places in the Community
Describing Neighborhoods
Describing Apartments
Plus:
Reading a Simple Map
Apartment Ads
8. Singular/Plural
Adjectives
This/That/These/Those
Clothing
Colors
Shopping for Clothing
Plus:
Money
Price Tags
Clothing Sizes
Clothing Ads
Store Receipts
Side by Side Gazette
9. Simple Present Tense
Languages and Nationalities
Everyday Activities
Plus:
Civics: Staying Informed
10. Simple Present Tense:
Yes/No Questions
Negatives
Short Answers
Days of the Week
Habitual Actions
People’s Interests and Activities
Plus:
Work Schedules
Bus Destination Signs
Side by Side Gazette
11. Object Pronouns
Simple Present Tense: -s vs. non -s Endings
Have/Has
Adverbs of Frequency
Calendar
Describing Frequency of Actions
Describing People
Plus:
Family Responsibilities
12. Contrast: Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses
Adjectives
Feelings and Emotions
Describing Usual and Unusual Activities
Plus:
The Education System
School Personnel and Locations
Side by Side Gazette
13. Can
Have To
Occupations
Expressing Ability
Looking for a Job
Plus:
Help Wanted Signs and Want Ads
Job Interview
Filling Out a Job Application
Asking Permission at Work
Safety Signs
14. Future: Going to
Time Expressions
Want to
Describing Future Plans and Intentions
Weather Forecasts
Telling Time
Months of the Year
Plus:
Ordinal Numbers
Dates
Schedules
Job Application Forms
Side by Side Gazette
15. Past Tense:
Regular Verbs
Introduction to Irregular Verbs
Past Actions and Activities
Describing an Event
Ailments
Making a Doctor’s Appointment
Plus:
A Medical Exam
Medical Appointment Cards
Medicine Labels
Staying Healthy
16. Past Tense:
Yes/No Questions
Short Answers
WH-Questions
More Irregular Verbs
Time Expressions
Reporting Past Actions and Activities
Giving Reasons
Giving Excuses
Plus:
Job Applications
17. To Be: Past Tense
Television Commercials
Describing Physical States and Emotions
Biographies and Autobiographies
Plus:
Basic Foods and Food Groups
Making a Shopping List
Ordering a Meal
Reading a Simple Menu
Supermarket Ads
Food Labels
Side by Side Gazette
Appendix
Listening Scripts
Vocabulary List
Skill Index
Topic Index
Grammar Index
Irregular Verbs: Past Tense
Map of the United States