Acknowledgements
Scope and Sequence
Explore: How to Use This Book
About the Authors
SKILLS UNITS
UNIT 1 Personality and Professions
Warm Up Discuss personality traits
Reading "Emotional Intelligence: The Secret Ingredient of Success"
Field-Specific
Practice Skills for your field of study or future career
Watching "The Empathy Toy"
Reading "Humble, Empathic Business Leaders Are More Successful"
Grammar Simple present and present progressive tenses
Writing Paragraphs
Pronunciation Numbers, dates, and letters
Listening "Discover Your Personality Type"
Interpreting Data The personality traits of James Bond
Speaking Discuss your personality traits and interests
Revising and Editing Correct verb errors
Wrap Up Find websites about your field of study or future career
UNIT 2
Loving Your Job: Reality or Myth?
Warm Up Discuss "dream jobs"
Reading "Finding Your Dream Job: Insights from People Who Have One"
Grammar Future tense and modals
Field-Specific Practice Describe a typical day at work
Watching "Students Create Their Own Dream Job"
Writing Avoiding plagiarism
Reading "The Most Sought-After Soft Skills by Canadian Employers"
Speaking Job interviews
Interpreting Data Staying at a job
Listening "What Are Your Weaknesses?"
Pronunciation Stressed and unstressed syllables
Revising and Editing
Correct errors in verb tense, modals, and vocabulary
Wrap Up Apply for a job
UNIT 3 Diversity at Work
Warm Up Discuss diversity and inclusion
Reading "Neurodiversity as a Strengthening Point for Your Team and Our Society"
Field-Specific Practice Diversity in your field
of study or future career
Watching "People with Autism Hired for Skilled Jobs"
Speaking Discuss inclusive recruitment practices
Grammar Present perfect
Reading "How Duncan McCue Changed Indigenous Reporting"
Writing Summaries
Interpreting Data Languages spoken at home
in Canada
Listening "Pride Flag Creator Gilbert Baker on the Rainbow's Real Meaning"
Pronunciation Pronouncing ed
Revising and Editing Select correct verb tenses
Wrap Up Research organizations' diversity policies; write a report
UNIT 4 Measuring Success
Warm Up
Defining success
Reading "You've Made a Mistake. Now What?"
Interpreting Data Fear of failure
Speaking Discuss the meaning of success
Watching "Defining Success"
Writing Essays
Reading "Famous People Define Success"
Field-Specific Practice Showcase your skills and
experience
Grammar Countable and uncountable nouns
Listening "On Failure"
Pronunciation / th / sound
Revising and Editing Articles and determiners with countable and uncountable nouns
Wrap Up Describe a new product or service; write an essay
UNIT 5 Innovations
Warm Up Discuss important innovations
Reading "Delivery Robots Ease Shopping in UK Town"
Field-Specific Practice Mind map for your field of study
Speaking Research and rank scientific innovations
Watching "What Is Artificial Intelligence?"
Pronunciation Pronouncing h-
at the beginning of words
Interpreting Data Water scarcity
Grammar The passive voice
Reading "Static Electricity Can Keep Desert Solar Panels Free of Dust"
Watching "The 3D Printing Revolution"
Writing Transition words
Revising and Editing Correct passive voice errors
Wrap Up Explain a process
UNIT 6 The Art of Leadership
Warm Up Discuss leadership styles
Reading "Gender Leadership Styles: Is It Really Man versus Woman?"
Speaking Take notes and explain information
Grammar The comparative and the superlative
Interpreting Data
Leadership qualities
Watching "Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Women"
Field-Specific Practice Giving advice about your field of study
Listening "The Art of Public Speaking"
Pronunciation Short and long vowel sounds
Reading "What's Your Personal Leadership IQ?"
Writing Compare and contrast
Revising and Editing Correct errors with the comparative and superlative
Wrap Up Presentation about a leader in your field
PROJECTS
Project A Design and Present a Survey Report
Project B Mentor Interview
Project C A New and
Innovative Discovery Related to Your Field of Study
Project D Company Profile
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Academic Writing Strategies
Professional Writing Strategies
Research Strategies
Speaking Strategies
Reading Strategies
Listening Strategies
Vocabulary
Strategies
GRAMMAR GUIDE
Chapter 1 Parts of Speech Overview
Chapter 2 Present Tenses
Chapter 3 Past Tenses
Chapter 4 Future Tense
Chapter 5 Present Perfect Tense
Chapter 6 Modal Auxiliaries
Chapter 7 Conditionals
Chapter 8 Passive Voice
Chapter 9
Nouns, Articles, Determiners, and Pronouns
Chapter 10 Prepositions
Chapter 11 Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 12 Sentence Structure and Punctuation
Appendix 1 Auxiliary Verbs
Appendix 2 Collocations
Appendix 3 Gerunds and Infinitives
Appendix 4 Non-Progressive
Verbs
Appendix 5 Irregular Verbs
Appendix 6 Question Formation
Appendix 7 Guide for Correcting Writing Errors
Appendix 8 Commonly Misspelled Words
Appendix 9 False Cognates
Credits
Index
ISBN: 9780190167561 Explore 1 2e Annotated Teacher's Edition
ISBN: 9780190167578 Explore 1 2e Student eBook with Online Practice (12M)
Vanessa Beal has a BA in Art History and a BEd TESL. She also has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University. She has taught university-level ESL and yoga in Sydney and currently teaches at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit.
Sherry Kent received her TESL degree, with distinction,
from Concordia University. She also holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Concordia University. She has taught Inuit learners in Northern Quebec and has also taught in Chile. She currently teaches ESL at Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
