Everyday English comic books are designed as progressive readers for learners of English as a second or foreign language. The series starts out with simple grammatical structures and vocabulary, then gradually build to more complex forms.The situations in Book 3 cover common everyday language skills and competencies such understanding written directions, describing a series of events, reading a directory, understanding U.S. measurements, reading a simple recipe, reading food and car ads, making a medical appointment, describing common symptoms, reading road signs, requesting information about the price and condition of a car, and describing how people work.The grammar recycles the structures presented in Books 1 and 2. Structures presented in this book include the use of common regular and irregular verbs in the past tense, expressions used with do, make and get, two-word verbs, intransitive verbs with prepositions of direction, would like, that with clauses, say and tell, time expressions with take, and regular and irregular forms of adjectives and adverbs.The vocabulary includes commonly used technical terms, household chores, daily activities, common two-work verbs, common shopping terms, food containers, measurements, general medical terms, parts of the body, symptoms and illnesses, common adjectives and adverbs, and wording found on safety signs. See pages 117 for contents of other the comic books in this series. This comic book is accompanied by a workbook: English for Better Jobs 2. The content of the workbook follows the same story line and characters, and it provides detailed grammar explanations, oral practice drills, and writing exercises that are presented in the last half of English for Better Jobs 2.
