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Print Price: $40.50

Format:
Paperback
96 pp.
8.5" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780195444476

Publication date:
February 2012

Imprint: OUP Canada


Global Focus Workbook

Integrated Skills through Cultural Events

Jacqueline Dumas

Global Focus is an advanced ESL text for adult and young adult learners. This four-skill book uses significant cultural events as a starting point for each theme-based chapter. It is the third level of the new Culture Link series of four-skill, culture-focused books.

Each chapter builds upon the content of the featured cultural event, examining new vocabulary, grammar structures, and themes. The book fulfills the practical teaching needs of the classroom in interesting ways through the use of authentic content, including popular songs and audio clips from sources including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

The full Global Focus program includes the student book, audio CD containing authentic listening clips, iTunes iMix (available through iTunes) containing the songs studied in the student book, workbook, and online teacher's resource.

Readership : Advanced English text for adult and young adult ESL learners.

1. The Cold War
2. Music and Sport
3. Tragedies at Sea
4. Bloody Sunday
5. Apartheid
6. Race Relations in America
7. The Stolen Generation
8. Science and Crime
9. Space Exploration
10. Elements of War

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Jacqueline Dumas is a writer and educator who has taught intensive ESL, writing from a grammatical perspective, academic writing for nurses, creative writing for second language writers, as well as English for Academic Purposes at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. She also has two published novels and is at work on her third.

Global Focus - Gary G. Fogal
Global Focus Audio CD - Gary Fogal

Special Features

  • Integrated skills are taught through culturally relevant, high-interest global themes.
  • Academic content and valuable guidance prepare students for the challenges of post-secondary programs.
  • Topics throughout are designed to stimulate discussion and keep students engaged in the learning process.