Future 1: English for Results (with Practice Plus CD-ROM) - Tapa blanda

Future's research-based, comprehensive curriculum empowers learners with the academic, workplace, and media literacy skills they need to get ahead. Future prepares students with 21st century skills, helping them transition to further education or career training. Student book with Interactive Practice Plus CD-ROM enables learners to persist by providing multiple pathways to learning. Built-in multilevel instruction ensures the success of every student. Components of Future 1 include: Student Book with Practice Plus CD-ROM Workbook with Audio CD Audio Program Tests and Test Prep with ExamView Teacher's Edition with Lesson Planner Multilevel Communicative Activities Book (Reproducibles) Transparencies and Reproducible Vocabulary Cards Professional Development DVD The Practice Plus CD-ROM included with the Student Book is an extraordinary tool for individualizing instruction. It allows students to direct their own learning, working on precisely what they need and practicing what they choose to work on as many times as they like. In addition, the CD-ROM provides all the audio files for the book, enabling students to listen as they wish to any of the material that accompanies the text. Future is a six-level, four-skills course that empowers learners with the academic and workplace skills they need to get ahead by helping them transition to further education or career training.

Yvonne Wong Nishio has served the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, and adult school counselor over the past 37 years. She has the accumulated experience of teaching all five ESL levels at Evans Community Adult School and was designated a resource/demonstration teacher for the Division of Adult and Career Education (DACE) of LAUSD. Her pioneering work in ESL literacy includes contributions to the ESL Language Model Standards for Adult Education Programs established by the California Department of Education. Her leadership in the field resulted in the writing of the ESL Beginning Literacy Course Outline for LAUSD. In addition to writing, Ms. Nishio shares her expertise in the field of ESL literacy by training tutors at public libraries in the Los Angeles area.

Irene E. Schoenberg has taught ESL for more than two decades at Hunter College's International English Language Institute and at Columbia University's American Language Program. She has trained ESL and EFL teachers at Columbia University's Teachers College and at the New School University. She has given workshops and academic presentations at conferences, English language schools, and universities in Brazil, Chile, Dubai, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand, and throughout the United States.

Ms. Schoenberg is the author of "Talk about Trivia"; "Talk about Values"; "Speaking of Values 1"; "Conversation and Listening;" "Topics from A to Z "Books 1 and 2; and the basic level of "Focus on Grammar," Second Edition. She is the co-author with Jay Maurer of the "True Stories "series and the introductory level of "Focus on Grammar," Third Edition.

Ms. Schoenberg holds a master's degree in TESOL from Columbia University.

Sarah Lynn's three young sons taught her how to race toy cars. Together they?ve used their imaginations to create roads everywhere (couch, kitchen floor, dirt, sand, rug, and the bathtub, just for starters.) The idea for 1-2-3 Va-Va-Vroom! came to Sarah when she was teaching her oldest son to write numbers. They began imagining the pencil as a car drawing its own track. Those vroom-vroom sounds made writing numbers so much more fun. Sarah is also the author of Tip-Tap Pop, illustrated by Valeria Docampo. She lives with her family in Camarillo, California.

Lisa Johnson is a marketing pioneer, skilled researcher, and expert on consumer behavior. She is the coauthor of "Don't Think Pink" and CEO of The Reach Group, an international marketing consultancy that helps companies create more compelling brand experiences for women (ReachWomen.com) and the Connected Generation (ReachGroupConsulting.com).