Module 1 Part 1 Student Reader: CURRICULUM FOR BEGINNERS Second Edition Learning English with Laughter's Teen-adult series has four Modules. This Student Reader is part of a series of the three books, Student Reader, Workbook and Teacher's Guide that comprise Module 1 Part1. Many of the exercises and activities will be incomplete if bought without the series - Student Reader, Workbook and Teacher's Guide. It is for English second language beginners aged 13 years and older. It has 38 pages for 20 lessons of approximately 90 minutes each. The availability of the Modules in two Parts allows schools, colleges and universities to provide books for half of each Module at a time. This allows flexibility in administering the program. THE STUDENTS DO NOT WRITE IN THIS BOOK, CONSEQUENTLY IT CAN BE USED BY MORE THAN ONE CLASS. This allows schools that provide the books for their students to collect and re-issue them for the following semester. It also lets a student who has purchased the book, re-sell it to an incoming student. This Student Reader provides the introduction and explanation of all new grammar points as they are incrementally introduced. The following Grammar concepts are incrementally introduced in this Student Reader. They are then integrated and reinforced through large and small group oral activities, role-plays and written exercises in the Workbook. - English names - Vocabulary - Subject pronouns - Possessive adjectives - Negative sentences with "to be" - Contractions of "to be" - Forming the negative of "to do" - Listening, understanding and oral reading - Informal introductions - Numbers 1 to 10 - Formal introductions - Negative contractions - Possessives -Reference of countries and nationalities - Preposition "in" - Greetings -Numbers to 100 - Spelling of singular and plural nouns - Contractions of auxiliary verbs with "not" - Using "some" and "any" - Collecting and recording information - Subject, object and impersonal pronouns - Using "a," "an" and "the" - Prepositions - Greetings - Numbers to 100 Students complete all written work in the Workbook. The Teacher's Guide provides answers to all questions. It also offers many interactive conversational activities, unit tests after every fourth lesson and a mid-term test after Lesson 20. All tests and activities in the Teacher's Guide can be photocopied. The conversational material provided in this book stimulates laughter that creates an enjoyable and relaxed learning atmosphere. This series has been popular for the last decade. The online version is being used in more than 70 countries of the world.