E-04.01 Understand & Participate in Basic Conversations about Things

WorkLife English Book 1: Life Skills, Chapter 1: Things 7 + 1 + 2 = 10 pp    Who It’s For: American-English (Teachers & Helpers of) Novices Beginning a Course of Oral-Language-Skills Building Why It’s Useful: Learners new to instruction in Oral Language Skills may benefit by “taking it easy” with recognizable kinds of exercises providing plenty of success-assuring cues.  Like subsequent excerpts E-04.02 through E-04.10 from WorkLife English Skills Book 1, this Download begins with a Strip Story to hear, read, and use as a model.  Part One provides Vocabulary follow-up.  Part Two / Listening requires responses to the items of Exercises A-C, all of which are accessible on Audio and/or the attached Tapescript portion.  Part Three / Grammar in Conversation integrates Listening to exchanges with substitution practice that leads beyond the text.  Because Part Four addresses Reading & Writing, its pages have been omitted. What You’ll Do:  [1] On page 7, follow along in the text as pa