Exploring English

-- Communicative, student-centered activities enable students to engage in meaningful communication. A wealth of pair work, role plays, and group work helps students learn cooperatively.
-- Abundant practice -- oral and written -- reinforces new concepts in guided and open-ended formats.
-- Grammar is presented and recycled in interesting and humorous contexts -- both readings and conversations -- so that students experience how the language is really used.
-- Basic competencies are taught in context: asking directions, taking a bus, buying food, shopping for clothes, etc.
-- Ample opportunity for review is provided in each chapter, using all four language skills. In addition, every fourth chapter is a review chapter.
-- Student Books are fully illustrated with humorous four-color drawings (Books 1-4). Clear direction lines and headings make Student Books "transparent" to students and teachers alike.
-- Workbooks feature lessons closely coordinated with the lessons in the text, and provide additional writing practice with the same grammatical