"Explore 2 is a theme-based, all-in-one integrated skills and grammar textbook that features high-interest Canadian and international content. In total, there are 6 units and it is expected that most teachers will complete 4 or 5 units during the 45-hour program. This built-in flexibility allows teachers to focus on the units they and their students find the most stimulating, and provides more variety for teachers who teach the same course successively. Unstudied units can also become extra testing material.

Explore 2 is aimed at intermediate students who want to improve their English for career purposes. The textbook contains two readings per unit, writing activities, listening activities, speaking activities, a pronunciation activity, an interpreting data activity, a revising and editing activity, and a watching activity, all of which are designed to meet the specific objectives outlined by the Quebec Ministry of Education. All themes and content in Explore have transferable connections to both technical and pre-university B Block programs. These connections are further reinforced by field-specific activities and projects in each unit that ensure students transfer what they have learned into practical application within their field of study, using both input and output skills.

This innovative textbook addresses the reality that there is rarely a common B Block demographic in CEGEPs or in individual classes. As a result, the book is designed to meet a wide variety of student needs. The goal: help teachers find common denominators that are meaningful to and manageable for the entire group, no matter students' level or field of study." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Scope and Sequence

Explore: How to Use the Book

UNIT 1: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT Warm Up: Discuss your field of study and your personality
Watching: "What is Personality?"
Reading: "Self-Awareness - Who Am I?"
Writing: Write a paragraph about yourself
Speaking: Present the results of a personality test
Field-Specific Practice: Make a mind map of vocabulary
Listening: "Mindful Multitasking"
Grammar: Review of the simple present, the simple past, and the past progressive
Reading: "What It Takes to Change Your Brain's Patterns after Age 25"
Writing: Write topic sentences and paragraphs Interpreting Data: Analyze information in charts and graphs Pronunciation: -ed past tense endings
Revising and Editing: Correct verb tense errors
Wrap Up: Research a leader in your field, write about mindfulness and neuroplasticity, present findings about personality tests

UNIT 2: THE EVOLVING WORKPLACE
Warm Up: Discuss factors related to job satisfaction
Reading: "Making the World a Better Place Tops Generation Z's List for Best Employer"
Interpreting Data: Understand infographics
Pronunciation: The pronunciation of three-syllable words
Listening: "Selling yourself: The Art of Personal Branding"
Writing: Write a cover letter for a job application
Field-Specific Practice: List skills needed for a job in your field
Speaking: Practice job interview questions and answers
Watching: "Automation Entering White-Collar Work"
Reading: "Does Unlimited Vacation Really Work?"
Grammar: Future tense and modals
Revising and Editing: Correct errors in a cover letter
Wrap Up: Reply to a job advertisement, write about a famous leader, practice job interviews

UNIT 3: CREATIVITY: THE NUMBER 1 SKILL Warm Up: Define and discuss creativity
Reading: "Tips on How to Be Creative Every Day"
Field-Specific Practice: Pitch an innovative idea in your field
Listening: "How to Fly a Horse"
Speaking: Discuss creativity
Reading: "Creative Design - Ethical Fashion" Watching: Traceable
Writing: Write a summary of an article Grammar: Passive voice
Interpreting Data: Analyze graphs
Pronunciation: Voiced and silent h-
Revising and Editing: Correct errors in verbs and subject-verb agreement
Wrap Up: Describe a process, present research on creativity, write a summary of a video

UNIT 4: INNOVATION AT WORK Warm Up: Look at and discuss important inventions
Reading: "3D Printing for Dummies: How Do 3D Printers Work?"
Listening: "Is the Internet Changing the Way We Think?"
Reading: "This is How the Internet Is Rewiring Your Brain" Speaking: Make a presentation on the role of the Internet in your field
Grammar: Present perfect and simple past
Field-Specific Practice: Describe technology in your field
Watching: "The Age of the Drone"
Interpreting Data: Analyze a bar graph
Writing: Write an essay outline
Pronunciation: The pronunciation of two-syllable nouns and verbs
Revising and Editing: Combine simple sentences into compound and complex sentences
Wrap Up: Locate research credible sources, write an opinion essay, make a presentation on an innovation in your field

UNIT 5: THE ART OF PERSUASION Warm Up: Discuss the effect of advertising and persuasion Reading: "Nudge: The Persuasive Power of Whispers"
Speaking: Describe pictures
Writing: Write a proposal
Watching: "Inside Google Workplaces, from Perks to Nap Pods"
Field-Specific Practice: Research a company in your field
Grammar: The comparative and the superlative
Interpreting Data: Analyze the results of a study
Reading: "Shopping Mall Design Could Nudge Shoplifters into Doing the Right Thing"
Pronunciation: Silent letters
Listening: "Can a Building Make You Sad?"
Revising and Editing: Correct errors in spelling, verb tense, and comparative and superlative forms
Wrap Up: Design a "nudge" in your field, write about the ethics of "nudging", write and deliver a short speech

UNIT 6: MODERN SOLUTIONS TO MODERN PROBLEMS Warm Up: Discuss modern problems
Watching: "How Driverless Cars Will Change Cities"
Speaking: Discuss driverless technology
Reading: "Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300 000 Lives per Decade in America"
Writing: Recognize organizational patterns and use them in writing
Interpreting Data: Analyze an infographic
Listening: "Exercise Pill"
Field-Specific Practice: Research a solution to a problem in your field
Pronunciation: The schwa vowel sound
Reading: "Rooftop Farming Gains High Ground in Montreal"
Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns
Revising and Editing: Correct errors in articles, singular/plural use, and compound words
Wrap Up: Present research on a problem in you field, write about a problem in our field, debate the future of computer-driven cars

PROJECTS
Project A Teach Us Something Video
Project B Design and Present a Survey Report
Project C Company Profile
Project D Design an App

LEARNING STRATEGIES
Academic Writing Strategies
Professional Writing Strategies
Research Strategies
Speaking Strategies
Reading Strategies
Listening Strategies
Vocabulary Strategies

GRAMMAR GUIDE
Chapter 1 Parts of Speech Overview
Chapter 2 Present Tenses
Chapter 3 Past Tenses
Chapter 4 Future Tense
Chapter 5 Present Perfect Tense
Chapter 6 Modal Auxiliaries
Chapter 7 Gerunds and Infinitives
Chapter 8 Conditionals
Chapter 9 Quoted and Reported Speech, and Passive Voice
Chapter 10 Nouns, Articles, Determiners, and Pronouns
Chapter 11 Prepositions
Chapter 12 Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 13 Sentence Structure
Chapter 14 Punctuation, Capitalization, Numbers, and Abbreviations

APPENDICES
Appendix 1 Overview of Verb Tenses
Appendix 2 Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs
Appendix 3 Non-Progressive Verbs
Appendix 4 Irregular Verbs
Appendix 5 Guide for Correcting Writing Errors
Appendix 6 Commonly Misspelled Words
Appendix 7 False Cognates

About the Authors

Credits

Index

Explore 2 is aimed at intermediate students who want to improve their English for career purposes.

Set includes: 1 book, 1 DVD, 1 compact disc.