Workplace Plus, an innovative four-level standards-based English course, readies adults for self-sufficiency in the three principal areas of their lives: the workplace, the community, and the home. Workplace Plus integrates the CASAS life skill competencies and SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills with a complete language syllabus and relevant and practical social language. The Grammar Booster provides extra practice beyond each lesson. Workplace Plus 3, by Joan Saslow and Tim Collins, is written for intermediate learners. It rapidly enables them to:
- understand spoken and written general employment-related language.
- communicate in their own words outside of an English class.
- understand the culture and behavioral expectations of their new environment and workplace.
Correlations
Scope and sequence
Unit 1 Your life and work
Unit 2 Your environment
Unit 3 Your equipment and machines
Unit 4 Your consumers
Unit 5 Your time
Unit 6 Your supplies and resources
Unit 7 Your relationships
Unit 8 Your health and safety
Unit 9 Your money
Unit 10 Your career
References
Alphabetical word list
Key expressions
Irregular verbs
Irregular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
Verbs followed by gerunds
Verbs followed by infinitives
Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
Verbs followed by objects and infinitives
How to spell the gerund and the present participle
Supplementary authentic documents
Grammar Booster
Workplace Plus, an innovative four-level standards-based English course, readies adults for self-sufficiency in the three principal areas of their lives: the workplace, the community, and the home. Workplace Plus integrates the CASAS life skill competencies and SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills with a complete language syllabus and relevant and practical social language. The newGrammar Booster provides extra pracitce beyond each lesosn.
Workplace Plus 3, by Joan Saslow, is written for intermediate learners. It rapidly enables them to:
- understand spoken and written general employment-related language.
- communicate in their own words outside of an English class.
- understand the culture and behavioral expectations of their new environment and workplace.
Workplace Plus is correlated to the following national standards: SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills, CASAS Life Skill Competencies, and EFF Content Standards. All correlations are downloadable from the Workplace Plus companion website.
Features and Benefits
- F: Basic essential vocabulary
- B: Vocabulary essential for the everyday life at home as well as in the work place is provided for basic communication.
- F: Practical Conversations
- B: Key social language and vocabulary is exercised through intensive practice.
- F: Grammar
- B: Grammar structure enables learners to manipulate the vocabulary and practical conversations to express ideas of their own.
- F: Listening and speaking practice
- B: Confidence in listening and speaking and reading and writing abilities are heightened through practice and rote.