What's Up? Book 3: Integrated Skills and Culture for Adults - Softcover

Olson, Kathleen Dunn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472032933 ISBN 13: 9780472032938

Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT, 2009

Synopsis

The What’ s Up? series presents many activities that build skills and knowledge of U.S. culture for adults in three volumes.

 

Each unit prominently features activities that develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and contains nine sections: Survey, Think, Read, Understand, Listen, Talk, Write, Apply, and Homework. Each unit also includes:

 

§          Readings adapted specifically for these students from actual news reports— selected for the interest level of the storylines and usefulness of the information, then carefully re-written to an appropriate language level

§          A variety of "authentic" products or realia (menus, advertisements, forms, etc.) to help adult students develop cultural literacy skills

§          A cloze dictation exercise to develop listening skills

§          A consistent lesson format for quickly mastering directions and completing activities independently

§          An opening survey with many useful applications in the classroom

 

Each unit can be completed in one week, with the homework assignment occurring over the weekend. The lesson format is consistent throughout the book, so once students have mastered the directions, they will be able to complete the activities independently.

 

Book 3 is appropriate for students at the low-intermediate/intermediate level.

 

About this title

About the Author

Kathleen Olson is a consultant for the State of Ohio on adult education and English language learning.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0472032933
• ISBN 13: 9780472032938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128