This user-friendly main text focuses on what people do and links the activities to what people and things are and the circumstances in which actions take place.

Features include key vocabulary sideboards in every unit, a detailed index for every key term, usage notes, guides to use of main verb tenses, and helpful appendixes. It is highly versatile, allowing students the capability to move with ease from ideas to words or from words to ideas. The audio CD contains captions and dialog in text from each picture in the main text.