Teachers, I hope you enjoy using Goals. This material was created with your needs in mind. That is why chapters can be dissected, used in any order, or skipped. And these chapters contain topics of interest for all students, whether in a technical, business, or pre-university program. It also provides them with the opportunity to do field-related writing and speaking activities and projects.
What's more with this material are all the online resources available to students. The Companion Website Plus has special features that students enjoy. In addition to doing the extra reading, listening, and vocabulary activities, students can peruse MySearchLab™. From their homes, students are able to find articles on EBSCO Host, Google Scholar, and Link Library.
You will also find some useful features on this website. When you assign a reading or listening activity from the skils book, you can ask students to answer the associated questions that appear on this website. With ease, you can verify if homework has been done by looking at students' online scores. Additionally, formal tests on many reading and listening texts are available. You can print out pdfs of the tests and students can answer questions on paper copies. Word documents of the test materials can also be downloaded. Thus, if you don't like a question or if you want to include long-answer questions, you can modify the documents.
Good luck and I hope you enjoy using Goals,
Lynne