Side by Side Plus 2 Book & eText with CD 1st Edition

• Skill-integrated units focusing on all communication skills
• Variety of grammar, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, reading, writing, and communication activities
• Personalisation activities that get students to share information about their backgrounds, interests, and opinions
• Standards-based life skills lessons aligned with key curriculum frameworks and assessment systems
• New Reading and Writing Workshop sections for career and academic readiness:
• Language arts academic discourse activities
• Informational readings
• Writing process lessons
• Picture dictionary lessons for introducing unit vocabulary
• Check-up tests and skills checks in all units
• Gazette magazine sections with high-interest material for use in class and at home
• Standard CD tracks for Gazette activities and mp3 audio files for major lesson features, including model conversations, readings, and Gazette activities (downloadable to a computer or audio player)

• Pages of the Student Book, with the complete audio program in embedded links, provide conversation, listening, pronunciation, reading, and Gazette practice
• Notes and Bookmark tools enable students to add, receive and share notes, and bookmark pages to revisit them later
• FunZone activities, games, videos, music, and animations reinforce each unit’s objectives:
• Vocabulary flashcards
• Skill building activities for vocabulary, grammar, reading, and life skills
• GrammarToons animations with activities
• GrammarRaps, GrammarSongs, and video segments with activities (Levels 1 and 2 only)

Side by Side has helped over 25 million students worldwide persist and succeed as language learners. Now, in this special edition for adult learners in standards-based programs,  Side by Side Plus  builds students' general language proficiency and prepares them for their life-skill roles in the community, family, school, and at work. Easy-to-use teacher support materials include hundreds of multilevel activities and a wealth of supplemental worksheets, achievement tests, and other resources to assure learner persistence and success.

Outstanding Features:

• Picture dictionary lessons introduce unit vocabulary in a clear, easy-to-use format.
• The program's guided conversation methodology integrates grammar, vocabulary, and topics through real-life communication practice that is student-centered, interactive, and fun.
• Standards-based lessons in each unit develop the competencies included in CASAS, BEST Plus, EFF, SCANS, Model Standards, and other major curriculum frameworks and assessment systems.
• Teamwork, critical thinking, and community tasks promote cooperative learning, problem-solving, and civics connections.
• Diverse reading and writing activities include realia, narrative readings, and journal-writing to develop skills for daily life, self-expression, and academic advancement.
• Built-in assessment in each unit includes a check-up test and vocabulary and skill checklists enabling students to assess their progress.
• Side by Side Gazette magazine sections promote learner persistence through high-interest material that students can use in class or on their own, building a bridge between the classroom and the home.
• A Bonus Gazette Audio CD included with the text offers entertaining radio program-style recordings of Gazette activities.
• An all-in-one teacher support package (available separately) includes a Teacher's Guide with Multilevel Activity & Achievement Test Book and CD-ROM providing multilevel activities and an array of reproducible masters, worksheets, and tests.
• An Activity & Test Prep Workbook (available separately) offers all-skills practice, GrammarRaps, and unit achievement tests.