- "Connect with English" is a soap-opera style video program featuring Rebecca Casey, a young woman who decides to leave her family and friends in Boston to start a new life in California. This all-skills video and comprehensive student text program, enables students to effectively learn English communicate naturally.Conversation Books is a set of 4 books that help students develop oral communication skills using the themes in the "Connect with English" video episodes as a springboard for discussion. Each book includes practice in reading, writing, and vocabulary development.They also contain a variety of pair, group, and whole-class activities based on important issues and ideas from the corresponding video episodes. The activity types vary with each chapter, and include an assortment of role-plays, discussions, interviews, opinion surveys, game, and questionnaires.This instructor"s manual accompanies Conversation Books 1-4.