Publisher's Synopsis
This series provides text-based language practice at an upper/intermediate level. It exposes the learner to extensive reading texts which present issues of current international interest, including technology, travel, the environment, sport and commerce.;The interdependent students' book and resource book present and practise ideas which stretch and build the learner's comprehension skills, and provide an introduction to study skills for those going on to use English as a medium for further study at university level.;The course comprises a students' book, a resource book, a teacher's book, a students' cassette and a resource book cassette.;"International Issues" can be used as free-standing one-year course or as the third book in the "English Around You" series.;"International Issues" is also available as an American edition.