The "What's Up? "series presents many activities that build skills and knowledge
of U.S. culture for adults in three volumes. Each unit prominently features
activities that develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and
contains nine sections: Survey, Think, Read, Understand, Listen, Talk, Write,
Apply, and Homework. Each unit also includes: Readings adapted specifically for
these students from actual news reports--selected for the interest level of the
storylines and usefulness of the information, then carefully re-written to an
appropriate language level A variety of "authentic" products or realia (menus,
advertisements, forms, etc.) to help adult students develop cultural literacy
skills A cloze dictation exercise to develop listening skills