Connect with English
A Video-Based
Program
High beginning to advanced
Soap-opera-style video episodes address
universal themes and real-life issues through a trip across the
USA. The books integrate solid English language teaching
pedagogy to ensure that students can fully and effectively
learn from the Videos. Activities in the books enable students
to develop in all skill areas and communicate naturally.
Features
• Forty-eight
video episodes with authentic language and high-interest,
universally appealing topics and themes
• Books
with solid pedagogy and a wide range of activities so that
students develop a range of language skills
Components
• Sets of
twelve video episodes (each episode is approximately
15 minutes long)
• Video Comprehension Books (with an Instructor’s
Manual)
• Conversation Books
• Grammar Guides (with
an Instructor’s Manual)
• Video Scripts
• Sixteen Connections Graded Readers
• Home Viewer’s Guide
• Distance Learning Faculty Guide
Videos
Video Comprehension Book
Pamela McPartland-Fairman, Michael Berman,
Linda Butler, and Maggie Sokolik
High beginning to intermediate
These supplements to the Videos emphasize
listening comprehension skills while combining reading,
writing, listening, and speaking in a stimulating context.
Book I (video episodes I-12)
Book 2 (video episodes 13-24)
Book 3 (video episodes 25-36)
Book 4 (video episodes 37-48)
Instructor’s Manual for Comprehension
Books 1-4
Conversation Books
Pam Tiberia, Janet Battiste, Michael
Berman,
and Linda Butler
High beginning to intermediate
The Conversation
Books emphasize communicative
activities to promote interactivity among students.
Book I (video episodes 1-12)
Book 2 (video episodes 13-24)
Book 3 (video episodes 25-36)
Book 4 (video episodes 37-48)
Instructor’s Manual for Conversation
Books 1-4
Grammar Guides
Kathleen Flynn, Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Irwin
Feigenbaum, and Linda Butler
high Beginning to intermediate
The Grammar
Guides can be used to present or
review grammar through their many varied activities.
Grammar Guide Level I (video episodes 1-12)
Grammar Guide Level 2 (video episodes
13-25)
Grammar Guide Level 3 (video episodes
26-36)
Grammar Guide Level 4 (video episodes
37-48)
Instructor’s Manual Grammar Guides
Levels 1-4
Connections Graded Readers
Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Daniel B. Freeman,
Rubi Borgia Pinger, Cheryl Pavlik, and Nina Weinstein
high Beginning to intermediate
Each reader contains sixteen stories based
on the Connect with English video series. There are four readers at each of
these levels: 300, 600, 1,000, and 1,500 words. The controlled
grammar sequencing and story lines increase in complexity as
students advance in level.
Level 1 (Rosenthal/Freeman)
Reader A: Rebecca’s Dream
Reader B: California Here I Come!
Reader D: A Very Good Year
Set of Four Readers (Level 1)
Level 2 (Rubi Borgia Pinger)
Reader B: A Stranger in a Strange Land
Reader C: Shattered Lives
Set of 4 Readers (Level 2)
Set of 4 Readers (Level 3)
Reader D: A Family Secret
Set of 4 Readers (Level 4)
Video Scripts
This component of the Connect with English series
includes the entire dialog from the videos.
Video Scripts Level I (Episodes 1-12)
Video Scripts Level 2 (Episodes 13-24)
Video Scripts Level 3 (Episodes 25-36)
Video Scripts Level 4 (Episodes 37-48)
Home Viewer’s Guide
Provides a brief, comprehensive overview
and synopsis of all forty-eight episodes of the video story.
Home Viewer’s Guide (all English)
Home Viewer’s Guide (Spanish/English)
Home Viewer’s Guide
(Mandarin/English)
Home Viewer’s Guide (Korean/English)
Home Viewer’s Guide (Thai/English)
Distance Learning Faculty Guide
This component includes a general overview
of how the various print materials can be used.
Distance Learning Faculty Guide
