All about the USA: A Cultural Reader

by Peter Murphy and Milada Broukal

Book Overview

As entertaining as they are informative, these stimulating cultural readers introduce students to typically American people, places, and things. The intriguing facts presented in the units not only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201346737
• ISBN13: 9780201346732
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Pearson PTR Interactive
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

very good book

I'm so happy about this book. I could learn many things about american culture. If you want to learn about USA this book is a good chance. Thanks

EXCELLENT BOOK !!!

i RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. IT CAN HELP A LOT STUDENT OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. ALSO YOU HAVE WITH THIS BOOK A CD , WHERE YOU CAN LISTEN TO SOME UNITS. PLEASE KEEP PUBLISHING MORE BOOKS ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY WITH CD.

Good overall

Good overall english lesson book. Great material to teach english. I wouldn't just use this alone though. Make sure to use other materials as well.

High Interest for Low Intermediates

All About the USA offers 30 reading selections on topics such as baseball, history of hot dogs and hamburgers, the bald eagle, Uncle Sam, and cranberries. Most of these topics are common knowledge to people who have grown up in the USA, but are new and interesting to immigrants. I have enjoyed seeing students' eyes spark as, while they read, they gain insight into another tidbit of the "culture" in which they now live. It also provides vocabulary practice, comprehension exercises, grammar points, and follow-up discussion suggestions. I've taught in public school, college, corporations, and the county jail, and I've used this book with all types of students: adults, children, and teenagers. For students at a slightly lower level, I recommend Introducing the USA by the same author.Marilyn R. Cahill - Lynguista@aol.com