Product Description

As entertaining as they are informative, these stimulating cultural readers introduce students to typically American people, places, and things. The intriguing facts presented in the units not only give students information about the USA, but also inspire crosscultural exchange.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #989708 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 124 pages

From the Back Cover

Do you know when the hot dog first came to the United States?
Do you know what U.S. government building has its own fire department?
As entertaining as they are informative, these stimulating cultural readers introduce students to typically American people, places, and things. The intriguing facts presented in the units not only give students information about the USA, but also inspire crosscultural exchange. Vocabulary and structures used in the texts have been carefully controlled at each level, while the language has been kept natural and lively.
Each book features:

• Pre-reading questions linked to introductory visuals to prepare students for the content of the reading.
• Topic-related vocabulary exercises to encourage students to work out meaning through context.
• Comprehension exercises to help students develop good reading skills.
• Discussion questions to give students an opportunity to bring their own knowledge, culture, and imagination to unit topics.

• Thematic units featuring typically American people, places, events, and phenomena.
• Topics include: the American cowboy, Las Vegas, Bill Gates, and tornadoes.

Customer Reviews

High Interest for Low Intermediates
All About the USA offers 30 reading selections on topics such as baseball, history of hot dogs and hamburgers, the bald eagle, Uncle Sam, and cranberries. Most of these topics are common knowledge to people who have grown up in the USA, but are new and interesting to immigrants. I have enjoyed seeing students' eyes spark as, while they read, they gain insight into another tidbit of the "culture" in which they now live.

It also provides vocabulary practice, comprehension exercises, grammar points, and follow-up discussion suggestions.

I've taught in public school, college, corporations, and the county jail, and I've used this book with all types of students: adults, children, and teenagers.

For students at a slightly lower level, I recommend Introducing the USA by the same author.

Marilyn R. Cahill - Lynguista@aol.com

Good overall
Good overall english lesson book. Great material to teach english. I wouldn't just use this alone though. Make sure to use other materials as well.

EXCELLENT BOOK !!!
i RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. IT CAN HELP A LOT STUDENT OF AMERICAN ENGLISH.
ALSO YOU HAVE WITH THIS BOOK A CD , WHERE YOU CAN LISTEN TO SOME UNITS.
PLEASE KEEP PUBLISHING MORE BOOKS ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY WITH CD.