Includes appendices and references.

"Engage students instantly with questions on personal, social and school life. In each unit a weighty problem is posed. Background information is given, and vocabulary necessary for the discussion is explained. One student takes the prime role of decision-maker, who must seek advice. Each of the other class members takes a specific part as an advice-giver: mother, father, girl or boyfriend, school advisor, work supervisor, addresses it in a way their particular role demands. They will speak improvisationally. How would mothers or fathers advise their children? What would a girlfriend counsel? What would a school advisor say? Following exercises consist of conversation practice and written work which reinforce new vocabulary and give plenty of opportunities to use real language in challenging real life dramas" (Book cover).

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Foreword

1. Stay or go?

2. Protest a low grade or keep quiet?

3. Keep quiet or blow the whistle?

4. Get a job, join the army or go to community college?

5. Bilingual program or immersion?

6. Major in liberal arts or study for a career?

7. Extended family: Live together or live separately?

8. High school: Drop out or stay in?

9. Drugs: How do you handle them?

10. Divorce or stay married?

11. Housing discrimination: Move or stay?

12. Date an American or not?

13. Who will take care of the baby?

14. AIDS and the schools: Send your child or not?

15. Work or go to summer school?

16. Harvard or the University of Miami?

17. Mixed marriage: Marry or not?

18. More money or more time?

19. Have an abortion or have the baby?

20. Job discrimination: Quit or fight?

Appendix

References