Take it Easy 1

　　Introduction

　　Welcome to Take It Easy, your guide to effective English communication in the business world and beyond. From interesting fields such as binge-watching and raising pets, to the basics of travel for pleasure and for business, and on to social media interactions, meeting people, and more, Take It Easy offers step-by-step tutorials on how to navigate a wide variety of daily-life scenarios with an air of practicality and a plethora of applicable knowledge.

　　In each of the book’s 12 units, students are presented with warm-up exercises, conversations, short talks, and reading articles, all centered on targeted topics and each with a unique grammatical focus. With highlighted useful expressions, independent writing exercises, multiple choice questions and grammar drills, every unit provides a detailed window into an exciting and information-packed facet of the world students will one day find themselves immersed in.

　　Warm Ups In each warm-up exercise, students are presented with a series of photos, and with questions that inspire conversation, debate, and preliminary analysis of the unit’s targeted topic.

　　Vocabulary Students are introduced to a dozen words which pertain to the topic at hand in each unit, and are asked to go through a few basic exercises which serve to familiarize them with these words and their proper usage, and memorize them for future use.

　　Conversations In every unit, students will listen to one or more conversations between two speakers, in which said speakers talk about one facet of the unit’s chosen topic.

　　Readings Students have the chance to read through an article in each unit, presented mostly as carefully researched articles or opinion pieces on a wide variety of topics. The articles and pieces present timely information on the topic at hand, with an easy-to-read, engaging, and informative tone.

　　Grammar Check This section gives an in-depth look at a particular grammatical component that is presented throughout each unit’s listening and reading exercises. After reading through an explanation of the unit’s grammatical focus and reviewing several examples, the students have the opportunity to attempt a number of challenging exercises testing and reviewing their newly-acquired knowledge.

　　Writing Students first have the chance to few a sample of some writing which pertains to the unit’s topic. Then, with an easy-to-use template at hand, and several key phrases and example sentences provided, they are given the opportunity to try their own hand at writing a letter/email, message, list, or plan, using the unit’s targeted vocabulary and grammatical focus, while applying knowledge from the listening and reading sections.

　　Speaking With key phrases provided and a conversational template given, students have the chance to pair up and engage in their own conversations pertaining to the unit’s chosen topic, applying all they have learned throughout the unit’s subsequent sections.