The World at Work series of EFL/ESL textbooks

The World at Work 1 is the beginner level text published by Perceptia Press. This integrated skills textbook helps students to improve their English skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Simultaneously, it invites students to think about their future or present working lives.

The World at Work 1 is built around a fascinating series of real-life interviews. Each of the 15 units focuses on an individual talking about his or her working life. As they improve their English, students can get a taste of what it is like to work in occupations such as photographer, nurse, zoo veterinarian, and many more. Each unit also encourages students to think about how their own unique talents and abilities can best be used in their future working lives. For more information, click here to contact the publisher.

 

The newly revised World at Work 2 is an invitation to students at the intermediate level to think about their future working lives, as they improve their integrated language skills. This book and its companion volume, World at Work 1 (Basic), feature interviews with people from all walks of life. Have your students ever considered becoming an advertising executive, a journalist, a flight attendant, or perhaps even an NGO worker? All these professions are included along with many others.

The book develops language skills, offering a rich range of authentic reading, writing, listening, and discussion activities. Listening passages for the texts are available via free downloads, so learners can add them to their MP3 players for extensive listening practice. Vocabulary is also presented and recycled throughout the book. Transcripts and answers in the back allow for easy checking and also make the book suitable for self-study. For more information, click here to contact the publisher.

 

Global Stories series of EFL/ESL textbooks

This is a beginner level text, appropriate for Japanese junior or senior high school students, low level university students, or adult learners. The narratives provides facts, sometimes surprising, about the natural world. For example, "Some grasshoppers have ears on their stomachs." Supplementary pages are available here. For more information write to globalstoriespress@gmail.com.

 

 

This is a high level beginner text is appropriate for Japanese high school, university, as well as adult learners. The narratives are rather serious, involving true stories describing particular social problems such as child soldiers. Readings include folktales and other information about the countries featured in the narrative. Supplementary pages are available here. For more information write to globalstoriespress@gmail.com. The second edition is due out in early 2009. Click here for a sample chapter (landmines).

 

This intermediate level text presents narratives of extraordinary people working for peace and justice. For example, it explains how Nobel Prize winner Mohammed Yunus of Bangladesh started microfinancing, the hugely successful program of lending money to the world's poorest people, and how Chris Moon started the Zero Landmine campaign. A supplementary DVD is available, as well as an online learning page. For more information write to globalstoriespress@gmail.com.