Note to the Learner

Welcome to

In the Community:

An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook!

This textbook is an English language learning textbook. It will help you notice, learn, and practice English that will be helpful in your community. The textbook

• gives you practice in the four main language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing
• helps you learn about intercultural skills
• helps you develop some important essential skills
• is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that can be used in two different ways. You can use it as an online textbook with interactive activities, or you can download it, print it and use it as a regular textbook.

You will meet the following people in the textbook.