Future 2/e 系列
Future 2/e 系列
Since it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career and educational goals.
English type: American English
Levels: 6
GSE: 18-65
Series consultants: Sarah Lynn, Ronna Magy, Federico Salas-Isnardi
English for work, life and academic success.
Since it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career and educational goals.
Now in its second edition, this effective six-level program continues to address the diverse needs of adult learners, equipping them with transferable academic, workplace and English communication skills.
Key features:
．supports the goals of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
．aligned to the new NRS level descriptors
．helps students develop the basic literacy and language skills identified in the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
．provides students with contextualized English language instruction that will lead them to success in workplace, life and academic settings
One integrated program
Future provides everything you and your English language learners need in one integrated program using the latest digital tools and time-tested print resources.
Integrated skills contextualized with rich content
Future presents grammar, listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading, writing and vocabulary through meaningful activities that simulate real workplace, educational and community contexts. While providing relevant content, Future helps build learner knowledge and equips adults for their many roles.
Meeting work, life, and education goals
Future recognizes that every adult brings unique work, life and academic experiences, as well as a distinct skill set to your class. With its diverse array of print and digital resources, Future provides learners with multiple opportunities to practice with contextualized materials to build skill mastery. Specialized lessons for academic and workplace skill development are also part of Future’s broad array of print and digital resources.
Core curriculum
Future targets essential English communication skills that are necessary for success in a variety of contexts – workplace, community and academic.
Workplace and life skills
Every level of Future has two units on employment (one on how to get employment and one on how to keep it). In addition, there is an increased focus on workplace settings throughout the lessons.
To be active participants in the community, every adult needs digital, numeracy and critical thinking skills, as well as civics skills. Future develops all of these in both print and digital components.
Soft skills at work
Soft skills are the critical interpersonal communication skills needed to succeed in any workplace. In its second edition, Future has further enhanced its development of workplace skills by adding a Soft Skill at Work lesson to every unit.
Academic skills
Rigor and respect for the ability and experiences of the adult learner have always been central values in Future. In its second edition, Future emphasizes rigor by highlighting the critical thinking and problem solving skills required in each activity. Based on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, each activity is labeled with the thinking skill that students are asked to use.
New writing lessons focus on analyzing models, brainstorming, organizing ideas and synthesizing unit learning into well-organized writing outcomes.
New content-rich readings with level-appropriate text complexity build content knowledge, introduce academic vocabulary, and require learners to analyze text and cite evidence to extend their learning.
Highlights:
．Updated content exposes students to language and concepts used in workplace, school, and community settings.
．More workplace vocabulary and skills, and functional language prepare learners for career success.
．New content-rich readings with level-appropriate text complexity build content knowledge, introduce academic vocabulary and require learners to analyze text and cite evidence to extend their learning.
．New writing lessons focus on analyzing models, brainstorming, organizing ideas and synthesizing unit learning into well-organized writing outcomes.
．New Soft Skills at Work lessons help learners develop essential social and cultural skills, critical to career advancement and success.
．Increased rigor built into all lessons at every level challenges learners to analyze, evaluate, predict, infer and problem-solve.
．Enhanced unit goals and lesson objectives ensure learners track and reflect on their own progress.
Other highlights:
．Latest digital tools help develop students' digital skills.
．Research-based teaching strategies provide creative solutions for all stages of lesson planning and implementation.
．Comprehensive digital and print resources for teachers enhance classroom instruction and simplify lesson planning.
．Correlations to standards guide and support teachers in aligning their instruction with current standards.
．Mapped to the Global Scale of English.
Instructional design
Learner centered and outcome oriented
The student is at the center of Future.
All lessons start by connecting to student experience and knowledge, and then present target skills in meaningful contexts. This is followed by varied and dynamic skill practice that progresses from controlled to independent in a meticulously scaffolded sequence.
Every lesson culminates in an activity in which students apply their learning, demonstrate their knowledge and express themselves orally or in writing.
Varied practice
Cognitive science has proven what Future always knew: students learn new skills through varied practice over time.
Content-rich units naturally recycle concepts, language and target skills. Varied practice activities engage learners in multiple modalities, leading to lasting outcomes. Lessons support both student collaboration and individual self-mastery. Students develop the interpretative, productive and interactive skills identified in the NRS guidelines, while using the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Assessment
For optimal learning to take place, students need to be involved in setting goals and in monitoring their own progress.
Future has addressed this in numerous ways. In the Student Book, Unit Goals are identified before the unit and checkboxes at the end of lessons invite students to evaluate their mastery of the material. Frequent, high-quality assessment proves students’ progress and helps prepare them for standardized tests. The course-based assessment program is available in print and digital formats and includes an online bank of customizable test items.
Levels: 6
GSE: 18-65
Series consultants: Sarah Lynn, Ronna Magy, Federico Salas-Isnardi
English for work, life and academic success.
Since it was first published, Future has helped over half a million students learn English and achieve their personal, career and educational goals.
Now in its second edition, this effective six-level program continues to address the diverse needs of adult learners, equipping them with transferable academic, workplace and English communication skills.
Key features:
．supports the goals of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
．aligned to the new NRS level descriptors
．helps students develop the basic literacy and language skills identified in the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
．provides students with contextualized English language instruction that will lead them to success in workplace, life and academic settings
One integrated program
Future provides everything you and your English language learners need in one integrated program using the latest digital tools and time-tested print resources.
Integrated skills contextualized with rich content
Future presents grammar, listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading, writing and vocabulary through meaningful activities that simulate real workplace, educational and community contexts. While providing relevant content, Future helps build learner knowledge and equips adults for their many roles.
Meeting work, life, and education goals
Future recognizes that every adult brings unique work, life and academic experiences, as well as a distinct skill set to your class. With its diverse array of print and digital resources, Future provides learners with multiple opportunities to practice with contextualized materials to build skill mastery. Specialized lessons for academic and workplace skill development are also part of Future’s broad array of print and digital resources.
Core curriculum
Future targets essential English communication skills that are necessary for success in a variety of contexts – workplace, community and academic.
Workplace and life skills
Every level of Future has two units on employment (one on how to get employment and one on how to keep it). In addition, there is an increased focus on workplace settings throughout the lessons.
To be active participants in the community, every adult needs digital, numeracy and critical thinking skills, as well as civics skills. Future develops all of these in both print and digital components.
Soft skills at work
Soft skills are the critical interpersonal communication skills needed to succeed in any workplace. In its second edition, Future has further enhanced its development of workplace skills by adding a Soft Skill at Work lesson to every unit.
Academic skills
Rigor and respect for the ability and experiences of the adult learner have always been central values in Future. In its second edition, Future emphasizes rigor by highlighting the critical thinking and problem solving skills required in each activity. Based on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, each activity is labeled with the thinking skill that students are asked to use.
New writing lessons focus on analyzing models, brainstorming, organizing ideas and synthesizing unit learning into well-organized writing outcomes.
New content-rich readings with level-appropriate text complexity build content knowledge, introduce academic vocabulary, and require learners to analyze text and cite evidence to extend their learning.
Highlights:
．Updated content exposes students to language and concepts used in workplace, school, and community settings.
．More workplace vocabulary and skills, and functional language prepare learners for career success.
．New content-rich readings with level-appropriate text complexity build content knowledge, introduce academic vocabulary and require learners to analyze text and cite evidence to extend their learning.
．New writing lessons focus on analyzing models, brainstorming, organizing ideas and synthesizing unit learning into well-organized writing outcomes.
．New Soft Skills at Work lessons help learners develop essential social and cultural skills, critical to career advancement and success.
．Increased rigor built into all lessons at every level challenges learners to analyze, evaluate, predict, infer and problem-solve.
．Enhanced unit goals and lesson objectives ensure learners track and reflect on their own progress.
Other highlights:
．Latest digital tools help develop students' digital skills.
．Research-based teaching strategies provide creative solutions for all stages of lesson planning and implementation.
．Comprehensive digital and print resources for teachers enhance classroom instruction and simplify lesson planning.
．Correlations to standards guide and support teachers in aligning their instruction with current standards.
．Mapped to the Global Scale of English.
| Future Intro | Future Level 1 | Future Level 2 | Future Level 3 | Future Level 4 | Future Advanced | |
| NRS | Begin-ning ESL Literacy | Low Begin-ning ESL | High Begin-ning ESL | Low Inter-mediate ESL | Low Inter-mediate ESL | Low Inter-mediate ESL |
| ELPS | Level 1 | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Advanced |
| CCRS | Level A | Level A | Level A | Level B | Level C | Level D |
| CASAS | 180 and below | 181-190 | 191-200 | 201-210 | 211-220 | 221-235 |
Instructional design
Learner centered and outcome oriented
The student is at the center of Future.
All lessons start by connecting to student experience and knowledge, and then present target skills in meaningful contexts. This is followed by varied and dynamic skill practice that progresses from controlled to independent in a meticulously scaffolded sequence.
Every lesson culminates in an activity in which students apply their learning, demonstrate their knowledge and express themselves orally or in writing.
Varied practice
Cognitive science has proven what Future always knew: students learn new skills through varied practice over time.
Content-rich units naturally recycle concepts, language and target skills. Varied practice activities engage learners in multiple modalities, leading to lasting outcomes. Lessons support both student collaboration and individual self-mastery. Students develop the interpretative, productive and interactive skills identified in the NRS guidelines, while using the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Assessment
For optimal learning to take place, students need to be involved in setting goals and in monitoring their own progress.
Future has addressed this in numerous ways. In the Student Book, Unit Goals are identified before the unit and checkboxes at the end of lessons invite students to evaluate their mastery of the material. Frequent, high-quality assessment proves students’ progress and helps prepare them for standardized tests. The course-based assessment program is available in print and digital formats and includes an online bank of customizable test items.
