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Reading and Writing in English, Book A

An Interactive Text for Advanced Beginning ESL Students

General Information

Author: Kristan Cavina
ISBN: 1-889850-12-8

Features:

READING

  • Engaging reading material from a variety of topics
  • Natural, everyday language made accessible to adult nonnative learners
  • Repetition of important and frequently misused lexical items
  • Related practice with vocabulary and with grammar in context

WRITING

  • A variety of sentence-writing activities related to the readings and to the students' experiences
  • Tasks that move from simple rewording or completion to the more difficult creation of multiple original sentences
  • Sentence-level practice with vocabulary, idioms, and grammatical constructions, including question formation and long and short answers
  • An introduction to basic paragraph writing

ALSO FEATURES

  • Word forms
  • Synonyms in English
  • Brief grammar presentations

Also Available:

Instructor's Manual
ISBN: 1-889850-13-6

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