Authentic listening tasks include news broadcasts, store announcements, and telephone messages. Vocabulary activities build students' word power. Around the World photo features cover cross-cultural topics. Fact files present interesting information in charts, tables, and lists. E-mail exchanges offer models for communication with keypals over the Internet.
Cartoons stimulate class discussion and role playing.
Student Books offer all-skills language practice. Activity Workbooks provide all-skills activities, GrammarRaps for practice with rhythm, stress, and intonation, and GrammarSongs from the Side by Side TV videos. Teacher's Guides offer language and culture notes and extensive new expansion activities for dynamic classroom practice that goes beyond the text. Audio Programs include all conversations, readings, and listening exercises. For the Activity Workbooks, the audios include listening exercises, GrammarRaps, and GrammarSongs.