The Kursbuch is a very comprehensive exercise and text accompanying the Materialienbuch for Unterwegs. It contains oral, aural, written and reading projects and exercises on semantics, wordbuilding, and grammar, all designed to advance the user to the Mittelstufenprüfung recognized by the German government. For information on where this test is given in North America, refer to the Goethe Institute site in "Related Links" on the navigation bar above. The Materialienbuch is an appealing collection of topically oriented texts. It"s the Kursbuch that guides work with the texts and creates a course of very high caliber for the advanced learner.