Hot Topics is guaranteed to engage readers, stimulate thinking, and provoke conversation while developing vocabulary and reading skills. The controversial topics explored in the text all have more than one side to them, thus encouraging debate and classroom interaction. The Instructor"s Manual supports Hot Topics 1-3 through teaching notes with additional classroom and Internet activities, answer keys, video scripts and video clip summaries, theme and chapter summaries, cultural and historical background information, and audio tracking for each reading.