If students cannot understand the language outside the classroom because they have become so familiar with the accents of their own teacher, the course has failed. This series meets this requirement by bringing practice with real people to the classroom. The videos are broken up with musical interludes Folk-ish guitar songs that often lead nicely into each new sequence. The sequence number and title also appear on screen. This makes finding your place in the video easy if you plan to use parts of it over the course of a term.
Visual landmarks are also well used.
In one interview in the exercise on 'Time', you can clearly see the time on Big Ben. A New York cop is asked his name in a bustling New York street. The screen changes color appropriately as interviewees are asked about their favorite color. Pictures of star signs are shown during the 'Astrological Sign' sequence. The second video in the series is, at 32 minutes, slightly shorter in running time than its companions.