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REAs English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S. with Audio CD + MP3Helps English Language Learners Improve Their Skills
A fun guide to everything American for the English language learner!
Authored by seasoned ESL instructors, this handy guidebook is perfect for people who already have a good grasp of English, but want to improve how they speak the language as it is spoken in the United States.
Written in a lighthearted and easy-to-follow style, this book is a great resource for people of all ages and all nationalities. Each unit introduces commonly used phrases, vocabulary, and verbs, and offers sample dialogs to illustrate everyday American life. Sentence completions, quizzes, tips, and illustrations make learning fun.
Individual units cover topics essential to the mosaic of American life: making friends, basic skills, driving, dining out, dealing with money, home life, emergency situations, doctor visits, handling a job interview, and more.
Our audio CD offers sample dialogs that present correct pronunciation using natural speech. The dialogues help English language learners practice their vocabulary and pronunciation skills. Theyre also a great way to work on accent reduction.
As an added bonus, an MP3 file of the sample dialogues plus additional reading and pronunciation pointers is available online at www.rea.com.
If youre looking for a fun and easy way to improve your English language skills, this is the book for you!
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REA's English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S. with Audio CD + MP3
A fun guide to everything American for the English language learner
The warm and witty authors of Celebrate the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language and Culture in the U.S. get you started on your ESL journey with English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S.
English the American Way is your companion to everyday life in the United States. Engaging, easy-to-follow chapters highlight important topics in American culture, such as: making friends, getting around, dining out, dealing with money, buying a home, what to do in an emergency, visiting the doctor, handling a job interview, and more.
Our ESL author experts (Sheila MacKechnie Murtha and Jane Airey O'Connor) give English language learners must-know vocabulary, commonly used phrases, wacky idioms, and sample dialogues that illustrate everyday American life. You'll have fun along the way as you improve your English language and grammar skills with sentence completions, quizzes, and helpful tips.
Practice speaking English like an American until you're perfect Improve your listening and speaking skills with the dialogues included on our audio CD and MP3 download.
English the American Way is an excellent resource for ESL students and teachers, English language learners, and professionals of all ages and all nationalities.
If you're looking for a fun and easy way to improve your English language skills, this is the book for you
Don't miss the second book in the series... Celebrate the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to English Language and Culture in the U.S.
Synopsis
ENGLISH THE AMERICAN WAY: A FUN ESL GUIDE TO LANGUAGE & CULTURE IN THE U.S. WITH AUDIO CD & MP3
If youre looking for a fun and easy way to improve your English language skills, this is the book for you!
LEARN ENGLISH FROM THE EXPERTS
Written by experienced ESL instructors, this handy guidebook was designed for people who already have a basic grasp of English, but want to improve how they speak the language as it is spoken in the United States.
MASTER THE ESSENTIALS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
Individual units cover topics in American life: making friends, basic skills, driving, dining out, dealing with money, home life, emergency situations, doctor visits, handling a job interview, and more. Hundreds of phrases and vocabulary terms build your understanding of everyday English.
PRACTICE AT HOME OR ON THE GO
Our audio CD includes the books sample dialogues to help you practice your vocabulary and pronunciation skills. You can also download MP3 files to your mobile device and practice wherever you go!
About the Author
About the AuthorsSheila and Jane have been colleagues and friends for… well, lets
just say a long time. As English as a Second Language (ESL)
teachers, they worked together on lots of projects… and had lots of
fun as they worked. A partnership was born!
Together, Jane and Sheila have teaching credentials in several
states and two continents. With years and years… and years… of
experience (they just dont want to count them all, ha!), they have
taught ESL to little kids, big kids, university students, adults, company
executives, and other teachers in the U.S. and Europe (both
online and in regular classroom settings).
Both Sheila and Jane have served as members of the New Jersey
Department of Education Advisory Committee for ESL/Bilingual
Education. Theyve facilitated online ESL training courses for teachers
through the NJ DOE professional development program. Sheila
has held several leadership positions scoring teacher candidate responses
for an international testing company, and Jane has written
ESL test questions and rated English as a Foreign Language exams
for another internationally recognized testing company. (They teach,
they test, they score!)
They have won many awards for excellence in teaching, including
two Teacher of the Year awards, and corporate citations for excellence.
Theyve given numerous presentations and have written curriculum
and syllabi for diverse ESL populations. Add to this some fun
teaching projects in Spanish, public speaking, drama, writing… and,
were not kidding, even soccer skills and youve got two writers who know how to have a good time writing a book!
Jane is now the Director of ESL Services for Emory College of Arts
and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. Sheila is a lecturer in the English
Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and continues
to teach, write and consult in New Jersey and New York. Although
they live several states away, both are happy to find time to work
together on fun projects… like this book!
Table of Contents
About the AuthorsLetter from the Authors
Authors Acknowledgments
How This Book Works
Symbols Used in the Book
About REA
Acknowledgments
New Friends
Hi There!Meet the Neighbors
Those Crazy Kids!Grammar Reminders:
1. Verb to beAffirmative Statements and Contractions
2. Verb to beQuestions and Negatives Getting Around
Riding the Bus
Going Underground: The SubwayHey, Taxi!Grammar Reminders:
1. The Present Simple TenseAffirmative Statements
2. The Present Simple TenseNegatives, and Questions with does
3. The Future Simple TenseAffirmative Statements, and Negatives
4. The Present Simple TenseNegatives, and Questions with do
Taking a Drive
Everybody Loves the DMV
Lets Go for a Ride!
Oops. Sorry, Officer
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Present Simple TenseShort Answers 2. Comparatives
3. Superlatives
Review: Units 13
Dining in Style
Zipping Through the Drive-Thru A Little More Upscale
Is This What I Ordered?
Grammar Reminders: 1. Stative Verbs
2. Would You Like or Do You Like?
3. Count/Noncount Nouns
4. More Count/Noncount Nouns!
Get Moving!
Play Ball!Members Only! Joining a Gym
Extreme Sports
Grammar Reminders:
1. Modal Verbs of AbilityCan
2. Modal Verbs of AbilityCould
3. Will Be Able to for future ability
Get Away from It All
Day Tripping
Going Wild
Fancy-Schmancy
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Past Simple TenseAffirmative Statements, Regular Verbs
2. The Past Simple TenseAffirmative Statements, Irregular Verbs Review: Units 46
Home Sweet Home
To Buy or Not to Buy; That Is the Question
City Life or the 'Burbs
Nothing but Bills!
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Past Simple TenseNegatives, Verb to be
2. The Past Simple TenseNegatives, Regular Verbs
3. The Past Simple TenseNegatives, Irregular Verbs
Ooh, Money, Money!
Stash the Cash! Get Started with BankingMaking the Big Bucks
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Past Simple TenseQuestions, Verb to be
2. The Past Simple TenseQuestions, Regular and Irregular Verbs
Shop 'Til You Drop
Its All at the Mall.
Food, Glorious Food!
Saving Some Dough
Grammar Reminders:
1. Expressions of Quantitymuch, many; few, less2. More Expressions of Quantity! Review: Units 79
Emergency 911
HELP!
HELP! FIRE!HELP! HES NOT BREATHING!
HELP! STRANGER DANGER!
Grammar Reminders:
1. Modal Verbs of NecessityHave to, Must
2. Modal Verbs for RequestsCan, Could3. Modal Verbs of Advice, Possibility, AbilityShould, Would, Could
Whats Up, Doc?
Under the Weather
Health Insurance: Whats Up with That?Grammar Reminder:
Modals Review
Whats Up Now?
Open Wide
Lets SeeWOOF!
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Past Simple TenseShort Answers
2. Prepositions of Time
Review: Units 1012
Around Town
Where Am I?At Your Service
Grammar Reminders:
1. Prepositions of Place
2. The Present Continuous TenseAffirmative Statements
3. More Present Continuous Tense
Culture Vulture
Whats Happening? .
See the Capital
and the CapitolGrammar Reminders:
1. The Present Continuous TenseQuestions
2. The Present Continuous TenseNegatives
Helping Out
Helping Hands, Giving Back
Good Citizen? Good Neighbor!
Grammar Reminder:
Even More Present Continuous Tense Review: Units 1315
The Better Half
The Dating Game
Will You Marry Me?
Its Over!Grammar Reminders:
1. Phrasal Verbs
2. Suggestions and Proposals Thats Life!
And Baby Makes Three
That Bundle of Joy
Grammar Reminders:
1. Will and Going to
2. Used to
Full Circle
End-of-Life Issues
Funeral Customs
Grammar Reminders:
1. Making Suggestions .
2. Expressions of Sympathy
Review: Units 1618
Gadget Central
Hello? Hello? Can You Hear Me Now?
The Easy WayGrammar Reminders:
1. The Past Continuous Tense with Past Simple Tense
2. The Past Continuous TenseAffirmative Statements, Negatives
3. The Past Continuous TenseQuestions
9 to 5
The Perfect JobPaperwork!
Grammar Reminders:
1. The Present Perfect Simple TenseAffirmative Statements
2. The First Conditional
3. More Present Perfect Simple Tense The Big Interview
BeforeDuring
AfterGrammar Reminders:
1. The Present Perfect Simple TenseQuestions 2. Present Perfect Simple TenseNegatives
Review: Units 1921 Answers to Review Activities
Appendices
Appendix A: Audio CD Tracks
Appendix B: Common Irregular Verbs
Appendix C: Vocabulary
How to Use the Audio CD