Exploring English, Level 4

by Allan Rowe and Tim Harris

Book Overview

This fully illustrated six-level series will set your students on the road to English language fluency. Exploring English, written by Tim Harris and illustrated by Allan Rowe, teaches all four language skills right from the start, and gives students a wealth of opportunities to practice what they've learned. Expressive, humorous four-color art and a broad range of characters capture student interest from page one. Communicative, student-centered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201825783
• ISBN13: 9780201825787
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Great series!

I've been teaching ESL for 25 years. As it uses line drawings and watercolors (and Book 5 uses no color at all) Exploring English doesn't look as slick as other textbooks that have a lot of glossy photos of current pop idols. However, the way Mr. Harris has created a community of characters and follows their lives through the series to contextualize the grammar-bases syllabus the book mainly uses is truly masterful. The books don't have any information-gap pairworks, which I love to use, but everything it does have "works." This book is so well written it nearly teaches itself (with the possible exception of book 6), and I love the rich and extensive reading passages included. If I were given the choice of using Exploring English or one of the market leaders such as Interchange, I would go with Exploring English in a hearbeat. My students just learn more, and I feel better at the end of the class.

Group class book

I like this book but is not a self study, due its function is communication skill, you need to work in a classroom otherwise could be boring, the lessons are driven to chat in a group and make the lesson iteractives. Good luck.