What Every ESL Student Should Know: A Guide to College and University Academic Success
What should every ESL student know? Beats me. One size fits all philosophies often seem a bit strange to me. Can anybody really answer this question for every international student and ESL college student? Really? Don't circumstances, needs, and desires differ? On the other hand, administrators, teachers, future college students, and current international ESL students constantly face this common question. What should every ESL student know? Fortunately, braver and more confident souls feel comfortable answering this reasonable question.
Collins COBUILD Intermediate Dictionary of American English (Paperback)
Collins Cobuild dictionaries, based on how native speakers actually speak English, consistently provide the most practical dictionaries. This Intermediate Dictionary of American English uses color and visuals to help ESL students understand words and collocations. Based on the Bank of English, it helps learners expand their working vocabulary. It is especially useful for adult students preparing for college and is more portable than the advanced version.
In Focus: Strategies for Academic Writers
Do you want to improve your academic writing in English? Featuring clear explanations, short readings, and concise writing activities, this book is ideal for intermediate ESL students. It helps learners develop writing skills through practice and revision. It also prepares students for advanced academic work and is especially useful for those planning to study in English-speaking universities.
By - Myra Ann Shulman
Grammar in Use Intermediate With Answers
The Grammar in Use series provides clear explanations, concise exercises, and a simple format for learning English grammar. Each unit is self-contained, making it ideal for self-study as well as classroom use.
By - Raymond Murphy
It's A Breeze: 42 Lively English Lessons on American Idioms (American Expressions)
His collection of 42 short English lessons focuses on specific American idioms and common phrases. The thematic chapters are organized into seven categories: Let’s Get Started, Fun with Food, Body Language, Animal Wisdom, Colorful Language, How’s the Weather, and Where Are You. Each concise self-contained chapter explores a single American idiom with clear definitions, sample sentences, short readings, comprehension checks, vocabulary lists, writing activities, and conversation questions. The comfortable pace, unit quizzes (with answer keys) and an index of American idioms and expressions also makes this book comfortable for both English classroom use and self-study. Written for high school ESL students and adult English language learners, this book can also improve the vocabulary and cultural literacy of intermediate English students. Understanding and using these American idioms will help immigrants sound more like their American neighbors. Idiom by idiom, readers and students will find speaking English less difficult and more fun - even “a breeze.”
101 American English Idioms: Understanding and Speaking English Like an American
This collection of 101 idioms uses humor, illustrations, and clear explanations to help learners understand real-life English expressions. It is popular among teachers as a supplemental resource for intermediate and advanced ESL students.
Mastering the American Accent
Are you sometimes misunderstood by your American co-workers or customers - even though you have lived in the United States for years? Do you sometimes mispronounce words causing needless confusion and sometimes stress? Do you give professional presentations and want the native English speaking audience to clearly understand your words and ideas? Have you been looking for an excellent self-study guide to improve your American English pronunciation?
By - Lisa Mojsin, M.A.
REALISTICALLY SPEAKING - A Practical Approach to American Pronunciation
Perhaps you've heard Planaria Price lead an English teacher's workshop at CATESOL or attended her popular pronunciation classes at Evans Adult School? She's energetic, witty, and smiling as she tosses out practical suggestions and shares tips to become more clearly understood. Dismissing arcane terminology and adopting short, sensible exercises, Ms. Price shows how students must physically open their mouths wider and teach their tongues to move in new ways to realistically speak English. While this product appears to be a copy of the original class notes used by her LAUSD adult education students, I believe Realistically Speaking has also been republished in a second edition with more vivid illustrations. Do yourself a favor and check out this wonderful book of practical pronunciation exercises.
By - Planaria J. Price
Open Sesame: Understanding American English and Culture Through Folktales and Stories (Paperback)
Why use folktales and children's stories to teach American culture to both adults and children? How does knowing the Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears help new immigrants and international students develop practical vocabulary and understand our hectic 21st century lives? Why does the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" matter today for English language learners and English teachers? Author and ESL maven Planaria Price provides surprising and persuasive answers in this magical ESL/EFL textbook. By both retelling classic tales and showing how their themes pervade American culture, Price cajoles English students (and teachers) to become detectives to solve the puzzle of English vocabulary and American culture. Viewing each tale as a piece in a complex puzzle, Price systematically shows how folktales transmit language and culture in short reading selections and concise exercises. Each chapter includes reading, vocabulary, writing, and SPEAKING components as students explore folktales and relate the themes to their own contemporary lives.
By - Planaria J. Price
Eureka! Discovering American English and Culture through Proverbs, Fables, Myths, and Legends
An excellent reader for high-intermediate and advanced English students curious about classic fables, English legends and the sources of American proverbs. Part English textbook, part literary anthology and part vocabulary enhancer, this text shows the enduring influence of ancient tales on contemporary American culture.
By - Planaria J. Price
Reading English News on the Internet: A Guide to Connectors, Verbs, Expressions, and Vocabulary for the ESL Student
This outstanding resource, designed for our 21st century English language learners and ESL teachers, fills a critical gap. Providing practical exercises that explain 94 confusing idioms that fill news articles from the BBC, VOA, and CNN, this text helps Japanese ESL students become better news customers, critical readers, and world citizens. As an English teacher who works with international students develop their writing skills, I found these exercises exceptional.
