Adventures in English provides a delightful alternative to traditional English-teaching texts. The selection of reading materials– and the instructional activities, commentaries, short essays, compact disc, and appendices which accompany them– have been designed to meet the following goals:

• Improve reading, writing, listening,a nd speaking skills
• Foster a love for reading
• Enhance critical, creative,a nd holistic thinking
• Serve as an invitation to fields as diverse as cultural anthropology and insect physiology
• Cultivate an appreciation of divergent, cultures, customs,a nd ways of thinking
• Promote the search for truth, beauty, and compassion