Activity Workbook to accompany Side By Side, Book 1

We have over 26 hispanic students. These students have been benefit from these books.
Thank you.

please pass THIS ON TO SOMEONE WHO WILL GET BACK TO ME!!!! I E-MAILED TWICE, BUT CAN'T GET THRU. TWICE YOU PEOPLE SENT THE SAME (YES, SAME) IDENTICAL WRONG BOOK. YOU SENT THE WORKBOOK, NOT THE TEXT BOOK. PER PUBLISHER'S NOTES ON THE BACK OF THEN BOOK, WORKBOOK IS 0-13-026745-7 BUT THE CORRECT TEXT BOOK IS 0-13-026744-9. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO GET/SEND THE CORRECT BOOK SO THAT I CAN LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR IT. THANKS.

This is an amazing series of books for any age beginners of Oral English as a Second Language (American English). I taught this series in China for 3 years, and am currently an M.Ed student. This series not only allows an inexperienced teacher to be able to jump into any class and feel confident teaching, but offers a strong order to the subject matter that is taught. The vocabulary and grammatical forms that are introduced are very useful in daily life.

If I were to offer criticism about this series is that these books are very sterile. Without supplemental activities, students will find the repetitive 'conversations' quite droll. Secondly, although it can be used at all ages, it's better to be used as a young adult/elementary book to be used as a SUPPLEMENT to other regular English classes. Without further instruction, many students feel that the material progresses much too rapidly. For example, Lesson 1 teaches the Alphabet and "What's your name?" while Lesson 3 is teaching Present Continuous Tense.

I have been teaching ESL for the first time over the past year and have been using the Side by Side text and workbooks. Not having had any prior teaching experience I didn't know what or how I was going to present the material. Side by Side's student book has great illustrations, to the point activities and the perfect amount of repetitiveness for students to grasp new concepts. I'm teacing again this year and I have every intention on using Side by Side books again.