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A fun guide to everything American for the English language learner!

The warm and witty authors of English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to Language & Culture in the U.S. are back with a new second edition of this bestselling title.

Featuring updated units on technology and social media, plus all-new fun-filled word-picture matchups, English the American Way is your companion to everyday life in the United States.

Engaging, easy-to-follow chapters highlight important topics in American culture, such as: making friends, getting around, dining out, dealing with money, buying a home, what to do in an emergency, visiting the doctor, handling a job interview, and more.

Our ESL author experts (Sheila MacKechnie Murtha and Jane Airey O'Connor) give English language learners must-know vocabulary, commonly used phrases, wacky idioms, and sample dialogues that illustrate everyday American life. You'll have fun along the way as you improve your English language and grammar skills with sentence completions, quizzes, and helpful tips.

Practice speaking English like an American until you're perfect! Improve your listening and speaking skills with the dialogues included on our audio CD and MP3 download.

English the American Way is an excellent resource for ESL students and teachers, English language learners, and professionals of all ages and all nationalities.

If you're looking for a fun and easy way to improve your English language skills, this is the book for you!

Don't miss the other books in this series… Celebrate the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to English Language and Culture in the U.S and College the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to English Language and Campus Life in the U.S.

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    September 24, 2018
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  7. Language
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About the Authors

Sheila and Jane have been colleagues and friends for… well, let’s just say a long time. As English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers, they worked together on lots of projects… and had lots of fun as they worked. A partnership was born!

Together, Jane and Sheila have teaching credentials in several states and two continents. With years and years… and years… of experience (they just don’t want to count them all, ha!), they have taught ESL to little kids, big kids, university students, adults, company executives, and other teachers in the U.S. and Europe (both online and in regular classroom settings).

Both Sheila and Jane have served as members of the New Jersey Department of Education Advisory Committee for ESL/Bilingual Education. They’ve facilitated online ESL training courses for teachers through the NJ DOE professional development program. Sheila has held several leadership positions scoring teacher candidate responses for an international testing company, and Jane has written ESL test questions and rated English as a Foreign Language exams for another internationally recognized testing company. (They teach, they test, they score!)

They have won many awards for excellence in teaching, including two Teacher of the Year awards, and corporate citations for excellence. They’ve given numerous presentations and have written curriculum and syllabi for diverse ESL populations. Add to this some fun teaching projects in Spanish, public speaking, drama, writing… and, we’re not kidding, even soccer skills and you’ve got two writers who know how to have a good time writing a book!

Jane is now the Director of ESL Services for Emory College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. Sheila is a lecturer in the English Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and continues to teach, write and consult in New Jersey and New York. Although they live several states away, both are happy to find time to work together on fun projects… like this book!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Research & Education Association; Second Edition, Revised (September 24, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0738612367
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0738612362
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 11 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
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Zahraa
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good teacher
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2024
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This book is very good and fun I got 2 for my friend and for me so we can study together 😍
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Mary Margaret Dickinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Common, up-to-date American English vocabulary. Concise dialogs available to listen to online.
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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I’m using the book as a supplemental text for my adult English Language Development class.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Really Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2022
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This is a really great book to teach advanced to intermediate ESL students. Each section is short and sweet but packed with useful information for both the student and the teacher. Grammar, natural expressions, and especially culture. Each unit is well organized, so it's easy to create your own PPTs based on each unit and part. 10 out of 10 and I highly recommend this book.
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Nenes
5.0 out of 5 stars How great!
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
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Congratulations! I liked the way the book was delivered. No dislike at all.
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S. J. Scott
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for students going to the USA to study, but some things out of date
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2019
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A good guide/book for those students who want to go to the US to study. Many scenarios to choose from. As a teacher myself I will recommend this book at any of my students who are going to the US to study.

The only downfall of the book is that even though the updated copy is recent, I still feel there are some things that are out of date, or phrases that are just not used. But that does not deter me from offering it to my students. I still think that most of it is adaptable and useful.
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Janice
5.0 out of 5 stars ESL
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I brought this book to teach English in class. I found it helpful with adults. I recommend this book
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R. Stubbs
5.0 out of 5 stars great book with great common practical english words to learn
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020
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great book with great common practical english words to learn. the audio cd is a nice bonus, but the true grit is the tips and the photos of common places - like a home or a car and all the names of everything in english for someone who speaks another language first.
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Old Sarge
3.0 out of 5 stars Not really an ESL book
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2023
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This book is aimed at English speakers from other countries.
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Larissa Silva
5.0 out of 5 stars Bom recurso para professores
Reviewed in Brazil on December 8, 2021
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Gostei para utilizar algumas partes em sala de aula
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Debby
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Empfehlung!
Reviewed in Germany on May 31, 2021
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Tolles Buch! Sehr zu empfehlen für Auswanderer mit sporadischen Englischkenntnissen. Viel Kontext, nah an der Realität und mit vielen nützlichen Extras!
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Aurora
5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo
Reviewed in Italy on November 24, 2020
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Molto bello pratico e attuale mi è servito tantissimo
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Didier B
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bien pour niveau avancé et pragmatique
Reviewed in France on September 10, 2020
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Excellent, vocabulaire, grammaire, assez actuel, méthodologie, remarques culturelles. CD avec dialogues à vitesse réelle. Lexique bien choisi et authentiquement naturel. Donc utile. Exercices. Permet de lire avec plus d'aisance des romans et de mieux comprendre des films en V. O. Convient même à des personnes parlant bien anglais, pour entretenir et développer ses connaissances et pratique de la langue. Connaissant un peu les USA et New York en particulier, je vais le parcourir et le pratiquer régulièrement pour entretenir les acquis. Les remarques culturelles sont en plein dans le mille! En complément de cette base, lire des romans, regarder des films. Le CD peut être transféré sur une clé Usb. Dialogues audio courts, c'est moins fastidieux, chapitres et exercices courts, c'est efficace et attrayant, parfait quand on manque de temps, on peut ainsi pratiquer souvent une "unité" et garder le contact, les fondamentaux. Ravi de ce livre dont je rêvais depuis longtemps comme outil de référence, qui plus est ludique. Listes de vocabulaire. Expressions naturelles. Revoir le lexique et écouter souvent les dialogues pour entretenir les fondamentaux à un niveau avancé. Évidemment, non-exhaustif, mais efficace, lexique ciblé donc suffisant et livre non fastidieux, contrairement à des ouvrages exhaustifs.
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MARINALVA GONZAGA
5.0 out of 5 stars Indico
Reviewed in Brazil on April 29, 2021
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Livro com muitas dicas e explicações sobre a realidade da linguagem americana cotidiana.
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