Your roadmap to excellent English skills

Avenues is a three-level series for high-beginner to advanced ESL students. Written by Lynne Gaetz, Avenues offers integrated skills development and comprehensive grammar instruction through an effective combination of print and online components that sets ESL students on the path to fluency. Now in its second edition, the series includes 60 to 70 percent updated content.

New!

• Chapters in the second edition open with Quick Chat activities to introduce students to the theme.
• A dedicated section on reading strategies teaches students to read more efficiently.
• Avenues 3 includes a ?Short Story Analysis? section.

Highlights

• The skills books provide an extensive selection of stimulating reading, listening and watching texts, with related vocabulary and comprehension activities and production tasks.
• Chapter themes are introduced through a Quick Chat activity.
• Chapters end with a Take Action! Section, which elicits oral and written production, and a section on revising and editing that helps students fine-tune their work.
• A dedicated section on reading strategies teaches students to read more efficiently.
• Writing workshops develop students? ability to write cohesive texts, and helpful appendices guide students in acquiring vocabulary, aspects of pronunciation and more.
• The grammar books provide level-appropriate explanations and extensive practice of essential grammar points.

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E-space

• The skills e-space offers extensive online practice with additional reading and listening activities, vocabulary exercises, and practice of reading strategies.
• Students can access the audio and video material for their book.
• The grammar e-space also provides extensive additional practice.
• Teachers will appreciate the automatic correction, the easy-to-use gradebook, the adaptable reading and listening tests, support documents such as transcripts and answer keys, and the eText version of the book, which will facilitate classroom presentations.  

Lynne Gaetz taught ESL for over twenty years at Collège Lionel-Groulx. The author of many ESL series in Canada, she has also authored developmental writing books for the US. She has an MA in English Literature, a TESL diploma, and a college teaching diploma.