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Print Price: $63.95

Format:
Mixed Media
256 pp.
7 figures, 80 photos, 9" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780190164188

Publication date:
October 2021

Imprint: OUP Canada

Compass 3, All-in-one Integrated Skills and Grammar

Student Book and Website Access Card

Rebecca Baker, Sue Frame and Alan E. Hall

Compass 3 is a theme-based all-in-one integrated skills and grammar textbook that features high-interest Canadian and international content. It is the third and highest level of the three-level Compass series, aimed at High Intermediate to Advanced students. It contains reading, writing, listening, speaking, and watching activities that are designed to meet the specific objectives (level, length, and duration) outlined by the Quebec Ministry of Education. Each unit includes in-depth vocabulary development. A comprehensive grammar section allows ample practice opportunities for students. As an integrated-skills textbook, Compass 3 is designed with flexibility in mind, allowing teachers to choose the specific units they wish to use, and match the preferences and style of each instructor and the needs of each classroom. In total, there are six units and it is expected that most teachers will complete four or five units during the 45-hour program. Unstudied units can become extra testing material.

Readership : Developed for high-intermediate to advanced-level students of English as a second language, more specifically CEGEP students in Block A of Quebec's education curriculum; however, any readers interested in building on English-language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing could benefit from this text.

Reviews

"Each text has been carefully selected to be appropriate for the level, interesting to read, from an adequate source, and educational in its own right. They will help get students into a topic to debate and discuss. All of the chapters are well organized, easy to use, and interesting. This book really makes it easy to appreciate!"
--Leslie Rempel, Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
"Good level of difficulty, good topics, and they allow the students to express their critical thinking in speaking or writing projects."
--Adriana Balan, Collège Ahuntsic
"All of the readings are stimulating and they touch on a variety of aspects of life, so I think they will appeal to many of the students as well. The types of questions asked are good as well because they require the students to show comprehension, work on reading strategies and apply the knowledge to their own lives."
--Laura McGee, Collège de Maisonneuve
"Very good choices of reading texts."
--Sherry Kent, Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
"Thought-provoking topics that will generate discussion."
--Sylvie Hébert, Cégep de Saint-Jérôme

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
How to use Compass 3
Scope and Sequence

SKILLS UNITS
Unit 1 Being in the Zone
Warm Up Use freewriting
Reading "In the Zone"
Writing Developing clear and coherent paragraphs
Listening "The Science of Happiness"
Speaking Give a presentation on social isolation
Pronunciation Silent Letters
Discover Grammar Simple Tenses and Progressive Tenses
Reading "Modern Dilemmas, Age-Old Wisdom"
Watching "The Four Constituents of Well-Being"
Revising and Editing Topic sentences
Consolidating Write a narrative of descriptive paragraph; present the results of an interview; review unit vocabulary

Unit 2 Creating Change
Warm Up Work together to answer questions
Speaking Give a presentation on influential artists or works
Reading "What Can Art Offer the Refugee Crisis?"
Writing Effective introductions and thesis statements
Discover Grammar Present Perfect or Simple Past?
Listening "Performance Art Challenges Public's Perception of Indigenous Stereotypes"
Pronunciation Pronouncing Regular Past Tense Verbs and Past Participles
Reading "Ghetto Fabulous: The Murals of Haas & Hahn"
Vocabulary Descriptive Language
Watching "For Many"
Revising and Editing Verb tenses and thesis statements
Consolidating Give a presentation on an artist or create a spoken word poem; write a descriptive paragraph; summarize an article; review unit vocabulary

Unit 3 Ideas for a Better Society
Warm Up Give a presentation on ways to improve people's lives
Watching Where to Invade Next
Reading "The Way to Make America Great Again Is to Be More Like Scandinavia"
Discover Grammar Using Comparisons: Degrees of Difference
Listening "Welcome to the Happiest Country on Earth"
Speaking Discuss how to support social issues
Pronunciation Contractions with have
Reading "Livin' Bernie Sanders's Danish Dream"
Vocabulary Recognizing Bias
Writing Write a compare and contrast essay
Revising and Editing Faulty comparisons
Consolidating Write a compare and contrast essay; give a short oral presentation; review unit vocabulary

Unit 4 Human Rights
Warm Up Identify human rights
Watching "Ten Countries Most Afflicted by Modern Slavery"
Vocabulary Formal and Informal Language
Reading "Still I Rise"
Pronunciation Word Stress
Writing Use transition words and write a persuasive essay
Listening "An Advocate's Top Five Misconceptions about Free Speech"
Speaking Give a presentation on freedom of speech
Discover Grammar Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Reading "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Revising and Editing Modals and transition words
Consolidating Write a fact sheet or descriptive paragraph; present the results of an interview; review unit vocabulary

Unit 5 The Changing Brain
Warm Up Have a group discussion about the brain
Watching "The Effects of Marijuana on Teen Brains"
Reading "High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?"
Reading "How Tests Make Us Smarter"
Speaking Discuss study habits
Pronunciation Word Stress
Vocabulary Word Families
Discover Grammar Passive Voice
Listening "Would You Let Your Kid Play Football?"
Writing Conduct effective online research
Revising and Editing Verb forms, plural forms, and possessive forms
Consolidating Write a summary; present research; review unit vocabulary

Unit 6 Your Unique Identity
Warm Up Discuss feeling comfortable
Reading "What Everyone Should Know about Genderqueer and Non-Binary"
Listening "Biracial Children Learn to Self-Identify"
Pronunciation Stressing Specific Words or Syllables
Reading "Lost in Translation"
Discover Grammar Gerunds and Infinitives
Watching "So Where's Home? A Film about Third Culture Identity"
Writing Write an expository essay
Speaking Give a short presentation on living in different places or societies
Revising and Editing Verb forms
Consolidating Write narrative essay or a review; give a presentation on the theme of identity; review unit vocabulary

LEARNING STRATEGIES
Writing Strategies
Speaking Strategies
Reading Strategies
Listening Strategies

GRAMMAR GUIDE
Chapter 1 Building Sentences and Using Punctuation
Chapter 2 Verb Tenses: Auxiliary Verbs, Verb Forms, Questions, and Negatives
Chapter 3 Present Progressive and Simple Present
Chapter 4 Past Progressive and Simple Past
Chapter 5 Perfect Tenses
Chapter 6 Review: Chapters 1-5
Chapter 7 Future Forms
Chapter 8 Conditional Sentences
Chapter 9 Passive Voice
Chapter 10 Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Chapter 11 Comparison: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 12 Words: Forms and Uses
Chapter 13 Review: Chapters 7-12
Appendix 1 Parts of Speech
Appendix 2 Irregular Plurals and Spelling Rules When Adding Plural -s, -er, -est
Appendix 3 Irregular Verbs: Simple Past and Past Participle Forms
Index
Credits

ISBN: 9780199029365 Compass 3 Annotated Teacher Edition
ISBN: 9780199029372 Compass 3 Audio and Video DVD
ISBN: 9780190164195 Compass 3 Student eBook and Online Practice Access Code

Rebecca Baker has been teaching ESL at Collège Montmorency for over 25 years. She holds a BA in English Literature from Wake Forest University and a BEd in TESL from Concordia University.

Sue Frame has been teaching at Cégep Marie-Victorin since 1996 and has also taught ESL in the UK and France. She holds an MA in English and French and a BEd in ESL/FLS from McGill University.

Alan E. Hall has taught at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit for 21 years, with additional ESL teaching experience in Columbia and France. He holds a BA in Psychology and a MA in Second Language Education from McGill University.

Compass 1 - Sue Frame and Jacinthe Paillé
Compass 2 - Sue Frame
Compass 3, All-in-one Integrated Skills and Grammar - Rebecca Baker, Sue Frame and Alan E. Hall
Explore 2, English for Field-Specific Success - Vanessa Beal and Sherry Kent
Explore 3, English for Field-Specific Success - Becky McKnight and Patrick Peachey

Special Features

High-interest, student-centred topics increase students' involvement and motivation.
Authentic content from Canadian and international sources is level-appropriate and relevant to students' lives.
Frequency-based approach to vocabulary recycles the most common (high frequency) words, which are practised multiple times in each unit for better student acquisition and retention.
Low-frequency vocabulary in readings, videos, and audio is glossed and defined to increase students' success.
Learning Strategies in each unit make learning easier, quicker, and more enjoyable. A concise learning strategies section at the back of the book allows students to become more independent and successful at acquiring new language.
A comprehensive Grammar Guide provides students with instruction and practice to master English grammar successfully while the contextualized content in each unit develops student understanding of everyday English. Students encounter implicit and explicit grammar instruction, taking advantage of different types of learning.
The NEW Compass Online has been updated to improve functionality for teachers and students! The new website allows teachers to assign individual activities to students using the lock and unlock tool and now has an improved mobile experience, which gives students greater flexibility in how they access practice activities, media files, and the eBook. The website also includes: an eBook of the full textbook with smartboard functionalities, including show/hide answers for the exercises; additional editable tests for reading, writing, listening, and speaking; and extra resources including answer keys, vocabulary files, and editable project files. All grades can be exported in standard formats in a few seconds, allowing teachers to use them as they see fit.