CURRICULUM

Side by Side

• Subject: General English
• English type: American English
• 6 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR A1 – B1+
• Reinforces learning and encourages self-study using high-interest magazine-style feature articles and activities.
• Features built-in self-assessment pages, with vocabulary and grammar check-up tests and can-do functional communication reviews making it the best course for in-class self-assessment.
• Includes access to the digital amusement park (FunZone), eText, expanded activity workbooks, and more.

Future

• Subject: General and Business English
• English type: American English
• 6 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR <A1 – B2
• Focuses on building workforce skills alongside
• English language proficiency with goals supporting the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
• Helps learners access new professional and academic opportunities by developing literacy and language skills identified in the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS).
• Challenges learners to analyze, evaluate, predict, infer, and problem-solve with increased rigor built into all lessons at every level.

Future

• Subject: General and Business English
• English type: American English
• 6 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR <A1 – B2
• Focuses on building workforce skills alongside
• English language proficiency with goals supporting the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
• Helps learners access new professional and academic opportunities by developing literacy and language skills identified in the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS).
• Challenges learners to analyze, evaluate, predict, infer, and problem-solve with increased rigor built into all lessons at every level.

Step Up

• Subject: Business English
• English type: American English
• 6 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR A2 – C1
• For adults to improve their employability skills to get their first job, secure a promotion, find a different job, re-enter the workforce after an absence or change fields.
• Provides learners with the skills to succeed in a competitive job market while developing their English language skills.
• Step Up offers two ways to learn: a self-study course or a self-study course combined with a teacher-led class.
• Develop English language skills through practice in listening, reading, and notetaking skills, pronunciation practice, and employability skills practice.

Focus on Grammar

• Subject: Grammar
• English type: American English
• 5 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR <A1 – C1
• Includes a unique and successful four-step approach for helping learners move from
• comprehension to communication.
• Reflects real, natural language and elicits target grammar naturally by incorporating the findings of corpus linguistics alongside its pedagogy.

Voices of Freedom

• Subject: Civics and US Citizenship Preparation
• English type: American English
• 1 level
• Recommended age: Children and Adults
• CEFR A2 – B1
• Voices of Freedom has helped hundreds of thousands on their path to United States citizenship. This course provides students with the language skills and civics knowledge needed for the citizenship test, and it prepares them to succeed in their naturalization interviews.
• Simple readings and hundreds of current and historic photographs present civics content in a context-rich and easy-to-read format.
• Civics Checks offer practice with the 100 official citizenship questions.
• Authentic dialogs and listening activities develop students’ communication skills for success in the naturalization interview and spoken English exam.
• Civic participation activities enrich learning and meet Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) goals.
• A mobile app offers audio practice via smartphones.
• An Activity & Test Prep Workbook provides supplemental reading and writing practice.
• Basic Civics for U.S. Citizenship is a new custom edition for English-proficient adult and secondary school students, offering civics test preparation for in-school use and self-study.

Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL IBT

• Subject: Exam Preparation
• English type: American English
• 1 level
• Recommended age: Children and Adults
• CEFR B1 – C1
• The material is revised to cover the new types of passages and questions on the TOEFL iBT® test, providing students with the most current and relevant practice.
• Diagnostic Tests: Pre-tests and post-tests for each section allow students to gauge their initial performance and measure improvement.
• Eight mini-tests and two full-length practice tests simulate the actual test experience.
• Guidelines and strategies are provided to enhance students’ note-taking skills.

True Stories

• Subject: Issue & Discussion
• English type: American English
• 8 levels
• Recommended age: Adults
• CEFR A1 – B2
• Provides entertaining stories and effective reading-skill instruction to English language learners, helping them build language skills through a carefully paced, step-by-step process.
• The series is appropriate for low-beginning to high-intermediate learners of English as a Second or Foreign Language.
• The Silver Edition consists of revised editions of six of the highly successful and popular True Stories in the News books that have provided entertaining stories and effective reading skill instruction for many years.