1. Interchange

Interchange Third Edition is a four-level, multi-skills English series for adult and young-adult learners. Each unit includes relevant content, additional grammar practice, and more opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills

2. NorthStar
NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to achieve in their academic as well as personal language goals. NorthStar continues to provide a fully integrated approach in five levels with two complementary strands: Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking

3. Side by Side
Side by Side, Third Edition is a dynamic, all-skills programme that integrates conversation practice, reading, writing, and listening in a fun and easy-to-use format embraced by students and teachers worldwide. This edition promotes active commnication between students practicing speaking together "side by side"

4. Step Forward Canada

Step Forward Canada is the first series of its kind to align multilevel books with the Canadian Language Benchmarks in all skill areas. It is a four-skill course that integrates language insturction into real-life contexts. The programmes ensures learners' mastery of language related to civics, the workplace, the community, and academics.

5. Top Notch and Summit

Top Notch and Summit are a dynamic six-level course for global communication with the flexibility to fit any teaching situation. The course sets a new standard, using the natural language that people really speak.

6. Ventures
No matter what classroom challenges you face, Ventures gives you the tools to achieve your teaching goals every day. Written by teachers, this integrated-skills, standards-based series offers unmatched support for managing multi-level classes and improving learners persistence. With five levels of vibrant artwork and material drawn from students' daily lives, Ventures enables you to boost motivation levels and enhance your classroom with renewed energy.

7. Canadian Concepts
Canadian Concepts, Second Edition has been completely revised to meet your students' needs even more effectively! For this second edition, many ideas and requests from teachers across Canada have been incorporated to boost communication skills at every level. Functional language is used in imaginative four-skill activities that build both language skills and confidence. Carefully graded exercises involve repetition and provide ample opportunities for active student participation. The popular features that made the first edition of Canadian Concepts so successful have been retained: thematic units, Canadian content that gives practical information about life in Canada, and community content tasks to link students to their community.

8. Amazing! Series

Amazing! Canadian Newspaper Stories is a reading and language textbook specifically designed for mid-beginner to low-intermediate English as a Second Language students. An emphasis on developing reading skills also makes it useful for native speakers enrolled in literacy programs. A wide variety of reading skills exercises focuses on skimming, scanning, finding the main idea, and making inferences and evaluations. These are combined with reporter role plays, paired interviews, classroom discussions, and writing assignments to expand the reading lesson into a fully integrated language learning experience.

9. American Headway

A complete language-learning package for students who are serious about learning English. American Headway combines a comprehensive treatment of grammar, vocabulary, and functional language with up-to-date topics and level-appropriate skills work to deliver real results in the classroom.

10. Basic Survival and Survival English

The New Edition Survival Series is for professional adults who need English for work and travel. Each one-page lesson depicts an authentic situation that learners might encounter in real-life: introducing people at work, ordering a meal, checking into a hotel/airport etc. Communication activities provide practical tasks which are directly transferable to the professional world. Culture Files build on the cultural topic and language from each lesson, and downloadable bilingual wordlists are available from the Business English resource site.

11. Brass Ring Series
Brass Ring 1 and 2 provide students with practical English useful for both technical and academic fields. They feature a wide variety of reading, guaranteeing high interest and motivation for students in any field of study, explore writing styles found in letters, resumes, formal reports and opinion essays, featrue key career-related grammar and vocabulary development.

12. Brass Tacks Series
Before Brass Tacks and Brass Tacks provide a two-level course written specifically for adults and young adult learners of English at the high-beginner to high-intermediate levels. They feature informative and motivating reading topics to help students become effective readers, promote systematic development of writing skills, and reinforce grammar and vocabulary acquisition. The series also includes an Instructor's Manual extension with extra activities, games and teaching ideas to complement the series.

13. Connect

The Connect Series is a graded, multi-skills syllabus featuring contemporary topics and contexts to motivate students, fun dialogs, games, and surveys, point-by-point grammar presentations, clear vocabulary presentations, practice, and recycling. 

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14. Downtown
Downtown is a five-level, integrated skills series designed to give adult learners the comprehensive language skills needed for success in everyday life. With Downtown's traditional grammar sequence and solid coverage of federal, state, and local standards, teaching to the standards has never been easier.

15. English in Action
English in Action is a four-level core language series for secondary and adult students that engages learners as workers, family members, and citizens. Students master listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar through a variety of lively, classroom-tested, easy-to-use activities.

16. ExpressWays
ExpressWays offers all-skills language practice in an imaginative highway theme that puts students in the fast lane for an exciting and motivating journey to English language proficiency! ExpressWays incorporates state-of-the-art cooperative learning, critical thinking, problem solving, role-playing, cross-cultural discussions, self-assessment, and community activities to promote an interactive, student-centered learning experience.

17. Foundations
Foundations is a four-skills, standards-based programme for beginning-literacy and low-beginning learners of English. Its clear and easy-to-use format offers students an introduction to basic English for essential lifeskill sitations and builds a language foundation for students' future success at the book 1 level of instruction.

18. Inside Out

Inside Out provides the motivation and support to help even the most reluctant students speak in class with personalised speaking tasks, bringing real-life subjects into the classroom. It includes contextualised grammar and vocabulary: captivating topics and speaking tasks motivate learners to use the new items as they talk, read, listen and write. A special emphasis on communication guides students to use English effectively.

19. New Headway

New Headway English course is a fresh, motivating and accessible series. It is based firmly on the principles which made the original Headway so popular and benefits from the feedback from teachers and students who used the original series. It combines the best of the traditional approaches with all that is best in communicative methodology, including an in-depth treatment of grammar and a wide range of practice activities, a strong vocabulary syllabus covering lexical sets, word systems, and developing good vocabulary learning habits, authentic reading and listening texts throughout, and regular 'Stop and Check' Tests and Progress Tests in the Teacher's Books.

20. Open Series
This comprehensive, three-level series uses Canadian content to develop the skills that students need to meet the demands of college courses. It includes a variety of reading styles, including interview and informative texts, and narrative and persuasive essays. The reading comprehension exercizes are varied and include pair and team activities. A reference section called "Writing Workshops" takes students through a step-by-step approach to paragraph and essay-writing fundamentals. The Second Edition includes listening exercises in every chapter and video segments taken from the CBC, NFB, and ABC.

21. Parallels Series
Parallels is a two-level integerated skills course designed for college students. This course helps build language competence while encouraging critical thining and personal expression. It presents a variety of controversial issues in the Sciences and Humanities, unsing articles, radio excepts and TV segments from Canadian sources to increase cultural awareness. Peer projects encourage cooperative learning.

22. Passages
Passages is a two-level, multi-skills course that takes students of English as a second language from the high-intermediate to advanced level. It is designed to follow the Interchange Third Edition and New Interchange approach to listening and speaking by offering a communicative methodology that focuses on both fluency and accuracy. At the same time, it provides more opportunities to develop reading and writing abilities, as well as more challenging content to develop students' higher-level thinking skills.

23. Smart Choice
Smart Choice is a complete and flexible four-skills course that offers personalized speaking on every page. Each page is a self-contained lesson that ends with personalized speaking. With one skill per page and plenty of spots to add your own supplements, preparation is simple. Start anywhere in the unit and pick and choose activities as you go. A balance of speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in every unit ensures your students have the language they need to communicate accurately and fluently. Use the 'Click & Change CD-ROM' to bring Smart Choice into your students' world. Just modify the worksheets to create professional-quality photocopiables with the food, fashions, places, and pop stars your students want to talk about. Personalization on every page lets students bring their own ideas to class. Information gaps, class surveys, and personality quizzes get students talking, laughing, and learning about each other - in English.

24. Stand Out
Built from the standards necessary for adult English learners, the second edition of Stand Out gives students the foundation and tools they need to develop confidence and become independent, lifelong learners.  Stand Out integrates language development, life skills, and real world project activities in an exciting, colorful, easy-to-use format. Ground breaking Lesson Planners take the guesswork out of meeting the standards while offering high-interest, meaningful language activities, and three levels of pacing for each book. Team Projects present motivating crossability activities which group learners of different levels together to complete a task that applies the unit objective. Grammar instruction and Pronunciation activities are included in each lesson.

25. Touchstone
Touchstone is an innovative new series for adult and young-adult learners of English. It draws on extensive research into the Cambridge International Corpus of North American English: a large database of everyday conversations and texts that shows how people actually use English. At the core of Touchstone is a brand-new syllabus area of conversation management strategies, such as how to start and end conversations, how to show interest, and how to ask questions that are not too direct. The result is a groundbreaking course of language and skills development that helps learners communicate naturally and effectively, even at the very beginning levels.

26. Workplace Plus
Workplace Plus: Living and Working in English is a four-level course that prepares adults for self-sufficiency in the three principal areas of their lives: the workplace, the community, and the home. Workplace Plus integrates the CASAS life skills competencies and SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills with a complete language syllabus and relevant social language. Communicative competence in English is of critical importance in achieving self-sufficiency. Workplace Plus applies the best of current second language acquisition research to ensure immediate survival, rapidly enabling learners to understand spoken and written general and employment-related language, communicate in their own words, and to understand the culture and behavioral expectations of their new environment and workplace.

27. World Link

WORLD LINK is a core series for young adult/adult learners of English from the low-beginning to high-intermediate level. Combining dynamic vocabulary with essential grammar and universal topics, WORLD LINK enables students to communicate confidently and fluently. A complete package of supplementary materials motivates students and empowers teachers to maximize classroom time.

  • Includes the four links to fluency: universal topics, dynamic vocabulary, essential grammar, and confident communication.
  • Universal Topics: students relate to world themes that provide the necessary context for learning about the English language and global cultures.
  • Dynamic Vocabulary: students acquire and expand lexis through word families and useful expressions.
  • Essential Grammar: students learn grammar through either inductive or deductive techniques, depending on which are more effective and practical for that grammar item.
  • Confident Communication: frequent and fun exercises motivate students to produce language on their own.

28. World Pass

To help students expand their fluency, World Pass focuses on dynamic vocabulary building, essential grammar, and stimulating listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities thatemphasize the language they need for real world communication. A "Vocabulary Builder" activity helps learners expand vocabulary through the use of particular vocabulary-building tools, such as learning to use word families, root words, or compound nouns. fluency practice through a wide variety of communicative activities. For added conversation fluency practice, each "Listening" section ends with an "Ask & Answer"discussion task. Each "Speaking" section presents a specific speaking skill or strategy and an open-ended communicative task to help expand fluency. The "Reading" and "Writing" sections provide instruction and practice with the types of tasks and skills that upper-level students need.

29. WorldView

WorldView, a four-skills course, builds fluency by exposing students to a wide range of appealing topics. The course's four-page units present clear and attainable goals, ensuring that students feel a sense of accomplishment and increased self-confidence. WorldView's approach follows a simple and proven system MAP: Motivate learning through stimulating content and achievable learning goals, Anchor languge production with strong, focused language presentations, and Personalize learning through engaging and communicative speaking activities.

30. Momentum Series

The Momentum: Building English course is designed with the interests of college-level students in mind. Momentum's contemporary issues and topics will challenge students of this age group to communicate. Whether your students are listening, watching, reading, speaking or writing, they will enjoy their progress as they develop their language skills. In addition, Momentum provides all the fundamentals for mastering English Grammar.

31. Canadian Snapshots

Using the task-based philosophy of Canadian Language Benchmarks as a frame of reference, the Canadian Snapshots series builds skills and langugae competency to enable young adults and adults to funciton successfully and to develop personal expression. Communication goals ensure that students know what they will be able to do by the end fo the unit, and communicative activitiwes enable students to engage in meaningful communication. A wealth of pair-work, group-work, and role-plays helps students learn cooperatively, Pronunciation Pointers provide students with models exemplifying authentic pronunciation, stress and intonation.

32. Just Right

Just Right, American English Edition is a fully integrataed four-level general English language course for fresh and engaging material that is designed to meet the learning requirements of all adults and young adults. New teachers will find it easy to use because of its well designed and tested material with a a wide range of exercises. Experienced teachers witll find it simple to adapt for their own needs. Features integrated grammar, skills and lexical syllabuses, and different approaches to suit different learning styles,and the audio programme features Canadian voices.

33. face 2 face - NEW!

Based on the communicative approach, the face2face English course combines vocabulary and grammar with skills development to fully prepare your learners for life in English. Teachers can be confident that students are learning natural, up-to-date English from the Cambridge International Corpus, while students become confident, natural speakers with regular practice across a range of speaking activitie, evaluating their own progress using "Can do" statements and "reading and Writing Portfolios" linked to the CEF.

 

34. Breakthroughs

Breakthroughs uses theme-based units to teach advanced ESL learners the keys to expressing critical thought in the English language. It is a four-skill book whose comprehensive, easy-to-navigate Table of Contents gives instructors a clear picture of the lessons and pedagogical features.

The body of the text includes ten units. Each unit incorporates advanced vocabulary, reading, grammar, writing, and listening exercises; most of these sections appear twice throughout any given unit. Units begin with discussion questions that prompt class interaction and the exchange of analytical thought about that unit's topic. Vocabulary lessons use word association and dictionary exercises to further improve advanced learners' diction while advanced, thoughtful reading exercises allow students to practice and further understand the new diction. Grammar features appear twice throughout units and teach essential skills for advanced learners while writing exercises help to cement new concepts. Finally, new and improved listening exercises encourage advanced learners to hone their understanding of native speakers' fast-paced speaking styles.

35. Move Up
Open House combines a systematic language syllabus with a modern communicative approach that gives young teens the structures, vocabulary, and opportunities to talk about things that interest them.
  • It is reliable, thorough, and easy-to-teach, with lively content and a youthful feel which appeals directly to youngteens.
  • The language syllabus is clear and well signposted, and covers all four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
  • New language is introduced in an attractive photostory that features teenagers in everyday situations, and enables students to work with topics relevant to their interests such as sports, music and travel.
  • The presentations on the 'Grammar' pages are easy to follow. New grammar points are given systematic, thorough practice. The exercises progress from more controlled activities to freer communication.
  • The 'Vocabulary' page gives students the words they need to talk about the things that interest them.
  • The 'Study Skills' section helps students develop techniques to become better and more independent learners.
  • The 'English across the Curriculum' page encourages students to use English to talk and write about a wide variety of topics such as music, sports, history and science.
  • The 'Use and Review' units provide students with a variety of additional exercises for further development of the four skills.

36. Technically Speaking
Technically Speaking: English at Work, Second Edition is aimed at ESL students at the intermediate to high intermediate level. It presents career-related activities that not only prepare students for the workforce but give them the opportunity to improve and enrich their lexical and structural knowledge of English.

37. World English

World English is an exciting new four-skills general English series which uses National Geographic content, images and video to teach the language that learners need to succeed in their daily lives. The series is built upon clear and practical learning goals which are presented and practiced through appropriate themes and topics. A competency-based series, World English uses real people, real places and real language to connect learners of English to the world.

  • Four competency-based 'Goals' in each unit give learners the chance to practice new language through communicative tasks, and learn how English is used in the real world.
  • National Geographic Video on the Classroom DVD, Student CD-ROM, and Online Video Workbook for each level brings learning to life both in and out of the classroom.
  • Extensive teacher support is available for each level with an Online Lesson Planner, Teacher’s Edition, Classroom DVD, Assessment CD-ROM with ExamView®, and Teacher Web Site.
  • An Online Lesson Planner for each level is a Web-based tool which allows busy teachers to create and customize lesson plans for the World English series.

38. Reading Explorer

Reading Explorer is a four-level reading series which uses carefully adapted National Geographic text, images and video to develop reading and vocabulary skills for learners of English.

  • Stunning real-world content supported by stunning visuals develops learners' understanding of the wider world in which they live.
  • Reading passages introduce a variety of text types, develop visual literacy, and incorporate graphic organizers, to help learners become better readers in English.
  • Reading Comprehension activities include question types commonly found on high-stakes international exams.
  • Vocabulary Practice activities build awareness of high-frequency vocabulary items and provide additional mini-passages for reading practice.
  • Vocabulary Builder boxes highlight common collocations, affixes, and usage to develop learner independence.
  • Video Activities include step-by-step activities for additional comprehension and vocabulary practice while motivating students to learn more about a topic.
  • Review Units recycle vocabulary and reading skills through a vocabulary review and a magazine-like spotlight on UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
  • Student CD-ROM contains all 12 video clips, 24 reading passages and 48 vocabulary activities with additional self-scoring exercises.

39. Goals NEW!

Goals: English for Academic and Technical Communication is a four skills textbook for high intermediate and advanced learners. Aimed at students in academic, technical and business programs, Goals explores issues that students have in common: the workplace, successful careers, surveys and gathering data, the environment, and conducting research. Although the themes touch aspects of various fields, each chapter includes field-related productions that lead students through challenging writing and speaking assignments in their own field of study.

With a wide range of resources from various writing patterns, such as the technical report, to the résumé, to authentic audio and video segments with successful professionals without forgetting the web activities, Goals is the obvious one-stop resource bank for all Block B – 102 teachers

40. Perspectives Skills Series NEW!

Perspectives is a four-skills college-level textbook with grammar designed for high-intermediate students of English as a Second Langauge (ESL).

In Perspectives, students are asked to consider a variety of viewpoints and the influences which shaped these viewpoints with the intention of fostering cultural awareness and openness, and honing English language skills.

In addition to studying English from a different approach, students are also introduced to a new textbook concept, which amalgamates both traditional textbook and new cutting-edge technology. Thanks to these new interactive tools, teachers and students alike can benefit from various features such as projection and note-sharing with the e-text, and self-grading and tracking capabilities with the CW+.

It is time to open up to new worlds, and look at the study of English from new perspectives !

41. Perspectives Grammar Series

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