"Canadian Currents is an ESL text designed to meet the needs of adult and young adult learners.The text combines a clear structural focus and organization with a flexible and creative approach to language development.

Each unit of Canadian Currents features four key components. Setting the Scene provides warm-up conversation, followed by prediction questions based on an illustration and a short dialogue. Comprehension questions reinforce student understanding. Let's Focus offers grammar development, including definitions and usage. Practice gives students the opportunity to participate in controlled exercises that reinforce proper usage of language concepts. Finally, Work Together presents a variety of communication activities designed especially for pairs and small group work.

Features found throughout the text include readings, follow-up discussions, role play, puzzles, games, writing exercises, and questionnaires that reinforce the grammar and skill development covered in each unit.

Designed in a friendly and appealing format, Canadian Currents is enhanced with numerous illustrations and photographs." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

To the Teacher

Unit 1 A Fresh Start
Functions and Themes: talking about work and workday routines -- describing ourselves and others
Grammar: review of simple present, present continuous -- adverbs of frequency

Unit 2 -- Job Hunting
Functions and Themes: talking about past experiences and achievements -- exploring job hunting strategies -- refining job hunting skills -- preparing cover letters and resumes
Grammar: review of simple past and present perfect -- time expressions: since, for, already, yet, just, before, after

Unit 3 -- Keeping Healthy
Functions and Themes: talking about health and medical services -- making suggestions, giving advice -- asking about insurance and prescriptions, regulations and policies
Grammar: modals with present and future meanings

Unit 4 -- Safety First
Functions and Themes: dealing with medical emergencies -- talking about safety regulations and procedures -- reporting accidents and injuries
Grammar: modals with past meanings -- indirect speech

Unit 5 -- Moving Ahead
Functions and Themes: making future plans -- talking about educational opportunities
Grammar: simple future tense -- future intention with be going to -- present tenses with future meaning -- first conditional (future possible)

Unit 6 -- A Place of Our Own
Functions and Themes: finding a place to live -- making comparisons -- talking about housing issues and concerns -- making comparisons -- talking about housing issues and concerns
Grammar: comparative with er -- comparative with more...than, less...than -- superlative with the...est -- superlative with the most... -- progressive trends with more and more

Unit 7 -- Just for Fun
Functions and Themes: discussing activities, hobbies, leisure, and recreational pursuits -- describing feelings, interests, and attitudes
Grammar: gerunds and infinitives

Unit 8 -- Shopping Around
Functions and Themes: talking about consumer concerns and consumer services
Grammar: non-separable and separable phrasal verbs

Unit 9 -- Going Places
Functions and Themes: making travel plans and arrangements
Grammar: perfect modals -- second conditional (present unreal)

Unit 10 -- Taking Part
Functions and Themes: preparing for citizenship -- discussing past actions -- discussing political participation -- rights and freedoms
Grammar: past perfect, past perfect continuous -- third conditional (past unreal) -- indirect speech

Unit 11 -- Reasons to Celebrate
Functions and Themes: talking about customs, traditions, holidays, and festivals -- discussing history
Grammar: passive voice -- used to and would -- past participle as adjectives -- present participles as adjectives

Verb List