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(Sample pages shown are from Unit 9 of Workplace Plus 1.)

• Each unit opens with a list of objectives tied to relevant SCANS competencies.
• Essential life-skills vocabulary is presented in a picture dictionary format and followed by exercises.
• Practical math activities integrate computation with critical thinking, empowering students to participate in life and work.

• Enhanced life skills focus ensures success in the community and the workplace.
• Short conversation models prepare students to communicate.
• Intensive practice of vocabulary and key social language.

• Exercises combine social language and grammar so that grammar has practical meaning and purpose.
• Do It Yourself gives daily and weekly progress checks that build confidence of all learners in a multi-level classroom.
  

• Acclaimed three-step audio program provides spoken models of all new language, enables student pronunciation practice, and builds ability to comprehend native speech.
• Authentic Practice 1 builds students' confidence and their listening and speaking skills.
  
  
• The interleaved Teacher's Edition gives page-by-page teaching suggestions, complete tapescripts, answers, useful language, culture notes, and tips for multi-level classes.
• Culture/Civics Notes in the Teacher's Edition build civic participation in level-appropriate steps based on students' language skills.

• Listening comprehension exercises in each unit build student confidence.
• The Teacher's Edition provides complete tapescripts and workbook links.

• Authentic Practice 2 provides extensive practice with authentic documents students will encounter outside the classroom: forms, charts, checks, bills, and many more.
• Numerous project-based activities engage students in purposeful communication.

• A review follows each unit.

• Do It Yourself provides daily as well as unit-end opportunities for students of all abilities to put new language into their own words.
• Each unit ends with the Now I Can feature that gives students an instant progress check.
  
  
• The Teacher's Edition gives:
  • ideas for expanded activities;
  • prompt vocabulary that recycles vocabulary from previous units;
  • an Oral Test option.