EXPRESS YOURSELF with Centre Stage!

Welcome to Centre Stage, an innovative series designed specifically for teenagers who are Cycle One students of English as a second language. In addition to easy-to-follow lessons, Centre Stage Student Books offer a wide array of engaging activities, numerous readings, grammar charts, projects, portfolios, etc., all written specifically for teenage learners.

Centre Stage's format is ideal for multi-level classes. Its activities are open-ended, not strictly defined. This built-in flexibility and freedom helps slower students keep up and challenges advanced student to explore their limits.

With Centre Stage, teachers can create a rich learning environment where language thrives, and students feel motivated to learn!

• Centre Stage 2 - Student's Book - Excerpt

• Centre Stage 2 - Activity Book - Excerpt

​Gillian Baxter spent fourteen years teaching ESL at École secondaire de la Cité-des-Jeunes in the regular, enriched and PÉI programs. Actively involved in many ESL dossiers, she was also a member of the school’s Reform Implementation Committee. She is currently the full-time ESL consultant for the elementary and secondary levels at C.S. des Trois-Lacs. She has written many primary-level and secondary-level ESL materials.

Jonathan Munro Jones has taught at every level, from elementary to adult. He worked as an ESL consultant and spent over twenty years at the Québec Ministry of Education, sixteen of them as Program Coordinator. He has taught methodology at McGill University and at Concordia University’s TESL Centre. A past president of SPEAQ and winner of the SPEAQ award, he now teaches at Or Menachem school. He has written both English language arts and ESL materials.