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Oxford Picture Dictionary Second Edition: Workplace Skills Builder Edition

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The Workplace Skills Builder integrates the workplace topics from the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary with practice activities.

A Focus on workplace vocabulary prepares learners for career success. Presentation + Practice provides learners with all the resources they need in one place.

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The Workplace Skills Builder integrates the workplace topics from the best-selling Oxford Picture Dictionary with practice activities.

A Focus on workplace vocabulary prepares learners for career success. Presentation + Practice provides learners with all the resources they need in one place.

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Description

The Workplace Skills Builder seamlessly incorporates visuals, exercises, and downloadable activities from the internet to create a unique learning experience. The vocabulary introduced in this version of the Oxford Picture Dictionary begins with the general workplace and continues on to cover hospitality, food service, retail, healthcare, office, manufacturing, construction, and agriculturalsettings. Workplace vocabulary is presented in clear, vibrant, illustrations that meet the needs of today's language learner. These richly contextualized images will improve vocabulary acquisition. Practice activities allow students to put the wordsimmediately to use, while personalization exercises will encourage them to apply the vocabulary to their work lives, making the new words relevant. The web address for online activities appears right on the page, making it easy to find audio files and encourage independent practice outside the classroom. Since audio and videos are downloadable, students can use them to study anytime, anywhere.

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About the Author

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein is an ESL teacher-trainer, consultant, and author living in Northridge, California. After starting to work with adult ESL, ESP, and VESL students in the 1980s, Jayme went on to teach the adult ESL methodology courses at UCLA Education Extension for many years. She is currently specializing in professional development for the adult division of Los Angeles Unified School District and is helping to develop mentor programs for CAL PRO (the adult education professional development program funded by the California Department of Education). As an ESL consultant, Jayme conducts teacher-training workshops on topics such as vocabulary development, focused listening, co-operative learning, and multi-level instruction across the US and Canada. The late Norma Shapiro was involved with second language teaching since 1982. She conducted many workshops on vocabulary development, communicative activities, and using visuals in the classroom. She instructed teachers on how to draw language concepts for the ESL classroom. As a training facilitator for the ESL Teacher Institute in California, and a language trainer of teachers for the Peace Corps and Chalk Talk Workshops, she travelled to many regions outside of the United States.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
24th July 2014
Edition
2nd
Pages
208
ISBN
9780194740753

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