richard r.day‧junko yamanaka

High-Beginning/Low-Intermediate Level. Impact Issues presents 30 discussion-generating topics of timeless interest in engaging two-page units. The reading, focusing on high interest social questions, appear on the left-hand page of each unit. The facing page contains opinion exercises and discussion questions, plus model expressions to help even high-beginning level students participate. Each topic is carefully presented to help students understand the issues and express their own viewpoints and opinions. Each unit is free standing, making Impact Issues flexible enough to be used as a reading book, a conversation book, or as a supplement to a main basal series. Impact Issues comes packaged with a free audio CD containing a lively reading of each issue in natural speech. Impact Issues--The perfect choice for your adult reading and discussion classes.