About This Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the community (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).
The book is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) levels 5/6, focusing on intercultural skills and essential skills: reading text
document use
writing, oral communication
thinking skills
working with others
computer use
The digital PDF file can be printed or used from a computer. Worksheets can be downloaded as fillable PDFs or Word documents from the collection. The instructor guide has tables indicating which documents are associated with which tasks. Video and audio links can be found throughout the book, as well as in the playlist linked below. For offline use, the video and audio files can be downloaded below.
This book was originally published by the School of Global Access at Bow Valley College, which closed down in spring 2025. Here is an archived version of the web page where the book was originally published: archived version of In the Community.
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NorQuest College
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NorQuest College
Publish Date
2016
Level
Undergraduate
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In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook by NorQuest College is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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