Joe is a student of MIT who gives young people advice in their problems. The themes deal with every aspect of teenagers' lives. Unfortunately Joe is leaving MIT, so there will not be any new letters and answers in this column. Young people's problems are always topical, so the letters never go out of date. The pupils are given both pages of the exercise, and their task is to combine the letters with Joe's answers.
Pupils can work alone or with pairs.
The fact that the problems are actual and not made up by the teacher, makes the exercise quite interesting for the pupils. Foreigners were asked what things they consider as most positive in Finland. The list is can be found among the pages that have been made by students of a computer science course at the University of Tampere. The pupils ought to arrange the different positive things and make a list of their own. The pupils can also add an idea not mentioned on the list if they want to.