The Junior Files

U File 1: English for Today and Tomorrow is the second book in a series of four student workbooks designed for intermediate-level secondary school ESOL students. It provides an innovative approach to language learning for adolescents, focusing on the development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The book is well laid out and visually attractive. Its contemporary style artwork enhances its appeal to adolescents. This book incorporates individual, pair, and group activities designed around interesting themes such as dreams, solving mysteries, biographies, interviewing, memories, inventions, vacation in space, school, friends, family. The activities often revolve around reading passages, games, puzzles, pictures or questionnaires. Each chapter contains labeled sections (Read, Write, Listen, Share, Think and Decide, Understand, and Remember) indicating the focus of each activity. A section called Notice is used to focus the learner's attention on a particular structure or other linguistic convention. These activities are presented creatively and humorously with the hope of enhancing students' motivation through the use of funny stories, drawings, and cartoons, though some of the choices to be responded to are a bit silly. The authors attempt to accommodate different learning styles and cognitive abilities of students by incorporating a variety of activities: discovery learning, fun activities, formal instruction, drill and practice, hypothesis testing, a large number of comprehension skills and strategies, and a variety of opportunities for active production. File 1 also provides communicative formats such as information gap and role-play activities and integrates linguistic functions such as praising, criticizing, and requesting throughout the text. File 1 attempts to get away from a traditional approach to grammar by avoiding contrived use and encouraging natural use in real situations. A variety of structures are introduced as they are needed in particular themes and situations in each unit. The authors attempt to present authentic material that will trigger real-life information from the students' own world

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