Includes a Grammar Guide, appendices and an index.

"Compass 2 is a theme-based all-in-one integrated skills and grammar textbook that features high-interest Canadian and international content. It contains reading, writing, listening, speaking, and watching activities that are designed to meet the specific objectives (level, length and duration) outlined by the Quebec Ministry of Education. Each unit includes in-depth vocabulary development. A comprehensive grammar section allows ample practice opportunities for students. As an integrated-skills textbook, Compass 2 is designed with flexibility in mind, allowing teachers to choose the specific units they wish to use, and match the preferences and style of each instructor and the needs of each classroom. In total, there are six units and it is expected that most teachers will complete four or five units during the 45-hour program. The student book is accompanied by comprehensive online practice to further solidify learning." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments

How to use Compass 2

Scope and Sequence

Skills Units

Unit 1 DISCOVERING YOU

Warm Up: Use adjectives to describe your personality

Reading: “Personality Traits”

Vocabulary: Cognates and False Cognates

Listening: “Branding Yourself: Emotional Intelligence”

Discover Grammar: Simple Present and Present Progressive

Reading: “What Disney Pixar’s Film Inside Out Teaches Us about Emotions: Seven

Seven Essential Lessons for Embracing Life’s Inevitable Highs and Lows”

Pronunciation: Third Person Singular: -s or -es

Writing: Write a paragraph

Watching: “Emotional Intelligence”

Speaking: Discuss emotional intelligence or take emotional intelligence quiz

Revising and Editing: Present tense and possessive adjectives

Consolidating: Write a descriptive paragraph; summarize a video clip; review unit vocabulary

Unit 2 EXPRESS YOURSELF

Warm Up: Share personal experience in the arts

Reading: “Seven Incredible Ways Music Helps You Process Emotions”

Discover Grammar: Simple Past and Past Progressive

Pronunciation: Endings: –ed

Watching: “Henry Responds to Music from His Era”

Speaking: Discuss creativity

Reading: “Yes, Creativity Can Be Taught”

Listening: “Laurentian Students Check Out Art Therapy”

Revising and Editing: Simple past and past progressive

Consolidating: Present on a visual artist; present on an artistic endeavour; write about six-word memoirs or summarize an article about teaching creativity; review unit vocabulary

Unit 3 FUTURE FOOD

Warm Up: Discuss food insecurity

Reading: “Tomorrow’s Meatball: What We All Could Be Eating 20 Years from Now”

Watching: “Why We Should Be Urban Farming”

Writing: Work from a thesis statement

Speaking: Present on solutions to the global food crisis

Reading: “Is 3D Printing the Future of Global Food?”

Discover Grammar: Future

Pronunciation: Can and Can’t

Listening: “Sustainable, Efficient, and Slightly Nutty – What It’s Like to Eat Insect Burgers”

Revising and Editing: Topic sentences

Consolidating: Read about community development; present on a community organization; write about a community event; review unit vocabulary.

Unit 4 BRIGHT IDEAS

Warm Up: Share ideas on people who are making a difference

Reading: “Beyond Malala: Teenagers Changing the World”

Discover Grammar: Present Perfect

Vocabulary: Word Families

Pronunciation: Words beginning with h

Writing: Explain and support your ideas about a quotation

Reading: “The One Drop Foundation: An Interview with Guy Laliberté”

Watching: “Ocean Cleanup Project”

Listening: “Paying It Forward”

Revising and Editing: Past tense and word choice

Consolidating: Present about someone who is contributing to a community, write a personal response to a vide; read an article for the main idea; review unit vocabulary

Unit 5 THE SHARING ECONOMY

Warm Up: Offer opinions on sharing goods

Reading: “The Sharing Economy”

Discover Grammar: Modals

Watching: “How the Sharing Economy is Catching On”

Pronunciation: Silent Letters

Reading: “Facebook Flea Market Has Just One Route: No Cash Allowed”

Speaking: Play trading game

Listening: “The Pitfalls of Collaborative Consumption”

Writing: Write an argumentative essay

Revising and Editing: Thesis statements, topic sentences, conclusion, and modal errors

Consolidating: Write an essay about how the sharing economy is changing our lives, respond to a video about public spaces; present on a collaborative consumption project; review unit vocabulary.

Unit 6 THE VOLUNTEER DILEMMA

Warm Up: Interview classmates about volunteer experience

Reading: “The Voluntourist Dilemma: Why We Still Volunteer Abroad”

Pronunciation: Word Stress

Listening: “Volunteer Tourism”

Discover Grammar: The Conditional

Reading: “The Downside of Overseas Volunteering”

Speaking: Prepare a volunteer recruitment campaign

Watching: “The Voluntourist: Is Voluntourism Doing More Harm than Good?”

Writing: Write an essay expressing your opinion on volunteering abroad

Revising and Editing: Future tense

Consolidating: Summarize an article, write an essay about a volunteer organization, present findings about a collaborative consumption organization, review unit vocabulary

Learning Strategies:
Writing Strategies
Speaking Strategies
Reading Strategies
Listening Strategies

Grammar Guide
Chapter 1 Plural Nouns
Chapter 2 Simple Present and Present Progressive
Chapter 3 Simple Past and Past Progressive
Chapter 4 Future
Chapter 5 Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive
Chapter 6 Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
Chapter 7 Modals
Chapter 8 Spelling and Word Choice
Chapter 9 Adjectives and Adverbs - Comparatives and Superlatives
Chapter 10 Prepositions
Chapter 11 Conditional Sentences
Chapter 12 Combing Sentences, Punctuation, and Capitalization
Chapter 13 Word Forms
Chapter 14 Review Exercises
Appendix 1 Stative Verbs
Appendix 2 Irregular Verbs

Index

For intermediate students of English as a second language.