Raise the Issues, an advanced text integrating listening, reading, speaking, and writing, encourages students to develop their critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American attitudes and values.
Combining original broadcasts from National Public Radio with authentic newspaper and magazine editorials, Raise the Issues presents two view-points on a variety of contemporary and controversial topics.
Raise the Issues helps students:
• increase listening and reading skills as they synthesize meaning and
compare and contrast viewpoints
• develop speaking skills as they engage in problem-solving activities
and propose solutions to actual case studies
• practice grammatical forms and stylistic techniques to improve
writing skills for essays
• improve their understanding and command of sophisticated
vocabulary
Topics include such stimulating issues as approaches to education,
heroes and role models, censorship, dilemmas posed by modern
technology, euthanasia, official language policy, and more!
Raise the Issues, an advanced text integrating listening, reading, speaking, and writing, encourages students to develop their critical thinking skills as they gain insight into…