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Lifeskills, second edition, byJudy DeFilippo, addresses the needs of beginning secondary and adult English language learners who are coping with a new language and a new culture. This three-book series gives learners the written and spoken vocabulary and grammar to function in situations they will face every day in an English-speaking world, such as job-hunting, handling a bank account, going to the doctor, and renting an apartment.

Table of Contents:
Unit 1          Medicine and Health   Questionnaire (completing biographical information; interviewing classmates; learning names of government officials) Match Game (matching occupations with duties; classifying) Parts of the Body (labeling body parts; building vocabulary) At CentralHospital(finding the main idea; classifying; building vocabulary) Specialists (learning names of special doctors; practicing a dialogue) Organs and Diseases (describing diseases; building vocabulary) Your Medical History (completing a form; answering questions) What Should You Do If … (deciding how to resolve problems) Emergency! (following directions; using imperatives; understanding words through context) Problems People Have (discussing personal problems and solutions) Reading a Medicine Label (reading comprehensions; answering true/false) Health and Medical Insurance (discussing insurance coverage) Which Word Is It? (choosing the correct verb tense and form)     Unit 2          Housing   Using Ads to Find a Home (reading ads and answering questions) Furnishing Your New Home (classifying and reading newspaper ads) Reading a Warranty (reading for detail) Median Sales Price of One-Family Homes in the U.S.(reading a chart and completing sentences) Buying a Home (understanding monthly payments and down payments) Should You Rent or Buy? (discussing pros and cons of buying a home) Rental Problems (reviewing past tense; reading comprehension) Signing a Lease (understanding conditions of a lease) A Telephone Bill (understanding charges) Fire and Robbery (discussing importance of household insurance; calling to report a robbery) What Is Discrimination? (reading comprehension; discrimination in housing) Who Are the Homeless? (reading graphs to complete sentences)     Unit 3          Finances, Banking, Legal   Day Care Centers (finding good centers; answering questions) Calling Long Distance (learning how to save money) Banking Services (reading a yellow page ad) Practice with Prepositions (using prepositions) Automatic Teller Machines (reading about 24-hour banking) Cash or Charge or Plastic Money? (discussing advantages/disadvantages of having credit cards; reading a monthly bill) When You Need Help (discussing when/why people need welfare; answering questions) Legal Aid (learning about lawyer’s services) Crime and Punishment (using pictures to discuss crimes)     Unit 4          Cars and Trains   Buying a Used Car (interpreting newspaper ads) Buying a New Car (reading a newspaper ad) Can You Afford a Car? (figuring monthly payments with specified incomes) Reporting a Car Accident (reporting to a car insurance company) A Train Schedule (reading a schedule and answering question) Is It Present? Past? Or Future? (contrasting tenses) Car Maintenance (learning how to deal with repair shops)     Unit 5          Jobs   The Present Perfect Progressive Tense (describing periods of time with for and since; answering questions; writing a biography) Finding the Job (reading employment ads; matching columns) A Resume (reading/writing a resume) Writing a Cover Letter (responding to an ad; writing a letter) The Present Perfect Tense (learning how to use and write the present perfect and distinguishing it from the past tense) The Present Perfect with Yet/Already (answering questions) Job Benefits (learning about pension plans and other benefits) Getting Laid Off (reading about unemployment) A Pay Slip (reading a pay slip and understanding deductions) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (understanding your rights) Workmen’s Compensation (understanding why compensation is necessary)     Unit 6          Comparisons, Food Shopping   Comparisons with Adjectives (learning rules for forming comparatives) Superlatives with Adjectives (learning rules for forming superlatives) Fact or Opinion? (distinguishing between fact and opinion) Comparing Sports Cars (using a chart to review superlatives) Comparative Shopping (comparing prices in supermarkets) Reading Labels (understanding ingredients/nutritional information) In a Restaurant (interpreting a menu) Counting Calories (planning meals for someone on a diet) Ordering from a Catalog (filling out a form) Getting a Refund (using pictures to discuss refunds)   Unit 7          Maps and Charts   Map of Products (interpreting a map and key; completing sentences) The United States: A Geography Lesson (identifying main idea and details; interpreting a topographic map) Population Growth (using a chart to make predictions) What’s the Temperature? (reading and computing Fahrenheit temperatures) Pollution (reading about different kinds of pollution) Schools in the United States (discussing cross-cultural differences) Two Successful Careers (using a chart to review tenses) Where Immigrants Came From (using charts to answer questions) Three Famous Immigrants (reading biographies of Einstein, Von Trapp, and Pei) An Immigrant Family (reading and writing about generational conflicts)     Unit 8          U.S. History   200 Years of American History (interpreting a time line; sequencing) Reconstruction and the Industrial Age (putting events in chronological order) Thomas Edison (reading a biography; drawing conclusions, answering true/false/?; classifying; writing a short biography) Labor Unions (learning about working conditions; completing sentences) World Wars I and II (reading for detail) The Great Depression (reading to answer true/false/?) Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (reading about a famous American; building vocabulary; answering questions) Present and Past Ability: Can and Could (learning rules; writing sentences) Why Did It Happen? (determining cause and effect: writing sentence)     Unit 9          U.S. Government   The Bill of Rights: Basic Freedoms (reading for main ideas and details; building vocabulary; answering questions) More Amendments to the Constitution (reading about Amendments 11-26) Forms of Government (distinguishing between fact and opinion) U.S. Government: The Three Branches (reading for detail; answering questions) Choose the Correct Tense (reviewing all tenses learned so far) State and Local Government (reading for detail) Take a Guess! (a quiz on income taxes) Questions and Answers (answering questions about U.S. government)     Unit 10        Civics   On Time (discussing polite behavior in different cultures) Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship (using must and should) The Right to Vote (registering to vote; reading for detail; writing) Vocabulary Review (reviewing vocabulary; classifying) It’s Customary (reviewing Americana) Can You Find the Missing Word? (completing a cloze exercise) Grammar Quiz (checking grammar items covered in this book) Appendix (reviewing common regular and irregular verbs)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780201533682
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson Education (US)
  • Edition: 2 Rev ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 211 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0201533685
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 274 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 243 gr


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