Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve listening and speaking abilities. The Student"s Book includes such engaging topics as entertainment, current events, employment, strange phenomena, the future, and advertising. Photographs, advertisements, maps, drawings, cartoons, and excerpts from magazines and newspapers help stimulate the exchange. Specially designed communication activities motivate students to share information by providing each student with some information that another student does not have.