Pronunciation exercises provide models for practicing authentic pronunciation, stress, and intonation. Journal writing activities invite students to relate lesson themes to their own lives and experiences. In guided conversation lessons, students practice carefully structured dialogs and then use these models for new conversations based on the exercises and their own imaginations. The new and innovative Side by Side Gazette appears periodically in each Student Book. These 'magazine-style' pages review and expand the language and themes of preceding chapters.
Feature articles cover interesting topics such as traffic, time zones, and advertising.
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.