This lively, comprehensive six-part series teaches all four language skills, using a broad range of characters and real life situations.

- Clear, easy-to-teach, highly-illustrated Student Books.

- Student-centered activities help students to express their own opinions, preferences, and experiences.

- Every fourth chapter is a review chapter, featuring an optional achievement test.

- Screening and Placement Tests assure accurate placement of students in the conversations of each unit.

- Conversation Springboard sections with audiotapes create opportunities for students to listen to native-speaker conversations and respond in a variety of ways.