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 popular adult reader features 40 high-interest dialogues and stories covering a variety of themes, settings, and characters that entertain, inform, and touch emotions. Students will identify with the everyday struggles and joys of real people.
-- Stimulates interest, improves pronunciation, and increases fluency through role-playing of dialogues. Features three new dialogues and an audio program, as well as a glossary (Word Preview).
-- A variety of comprehensive questions strengthen reading skills, while exercises such as matching, synonym/antonym, and close expand vocabulary.