Summary

This popular three-level reading series is designed for beginning through low-intermediate students. It features high-interest dialogues and stories about ordinary people from around the world (some famous) with whom the students can identify. Students can identify with the hopes, dreams, and fears of these real people, and will enjoy reading and discussing these stories and dialogues as they relate their own experiences to the class.

Each book features:
-- Relevant story topics that relate to student's lives.
-- Pre-reading and follow-up questions to check students comprehension and generate classroom conversation.
-- Word banks that precede each dialog and story to build basic vocabulary.
-- A cassette(s) that includes all the dialogues and stories from the text.

This text and workbook use stories and role-play dialogues to help students acquire a basic vocabulary, build fluency, improve pronunciation and intonation, and learn key aspects of American culture. Story topics are relevant to students' lives.
-- The Workbook reinforces and expands on the text with comprehension checks of the text's dialogues and stories and 48 new dialogues based on the same topics as the text.
-- A reproducible Test Package and Answer Key for the Workbook is available.