New York: City of Opportunity: A Big Apple Reader for Intermediate and Advanced Students of ESOL - Paperback

by Nathaniel Altman (Author)

New York: City of Opportunity offers 45 reading selections about New York City: its history and culture, local customs, getting around, where to go, what to see and what to do. Most of the topics are common knowledge to people who have grown up in New York City, but are new and interesting to visitors and immigrants. This book was written mostly for intermediate and advanced students of ESOL, but it can also be useful to ABE-HSE and EL-Civics students. It provides vocabulary practice, comprehension exercises, grammar points and follow-up discussion suggestions. Written by an ESOL teacher who is also a native New Yorker, City of Opportunity is part cultural reader, part guidebook and part vocabulary and conversation textbook. Along with its companion volume, New York: City of Dreams (written for beginner students), it is the first ESOL reader about the Big Apple.

Author Biography

Nathaniel Altman is a Brooklyn, New York -based writer, teacher and consultant who has authored more than twenty published books on peace studies, alternative healing, nature and relationship. He was an ESOL instructor at the Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst from 2003-2016, which included several years as Staff Developer and Curriculum Developer. Now semi-retired, Nathaniel continues to work at the JCHB as a substitute teacher. He also taught classes for the English for Your Health program at Queens Library from 2008-2012.