Includes index and bibliography.

"This edition maintains its use of an integrated approach in studying English through the living language of literature. Moreover, the approach remain s situational in using real-life contexts deemed suitable to the readers' experiences. This enables the students to easily relate to situations and experiences similar or new to them. Similarly, the exercise materials continue to be interdisciplinary by covering such diverse subjects as the natural sciences, the arts, and the social sciences and by discussing timely issues like environmental awareness, gender, peace, and human rights education, among others. This approach is also communications-oriented through its inclusion of listening and writing exercises geared toward developing in the students facility of self-expression in the language. Each lesson opens with a literary selection that serves as a springboard for the activities that develop vocabulary, speech, grammar, writing and literary appreciation skills." -- Provided by publisher

In English