Raise the Issues, an advanced text integrating, listening, reading, speaking, and writing, encourages students to develop their critical thinking skills as they gain insight into American attitudes and values.
Combining original broadcasts from National Pubilc Radio with authentic newspaper and magazine editorials, Raise the Issues presents two viewpoints on a variety of contemporary and controversial topics.
Raise the Issues helps student
- increase listening and reading skills as they synthesize meaning and compare and contrast viewpoints
- develop speaking skills as they engage in problem-solving activities and propose solutions to actual case studies
- practice grammatical forms and stylistic techniques to improve writing skills for essays
- improve their understanding and command of sophisticated vocabulary
1. Men who know where their bullets are going
2. When does life begin?
3. To know more about less or less about more
4. Economic might V.S Ecologic right
5. Just say 'No' to drugs''?
6. Bridging an uncommon past with a common future
7. Have all the heroes died?
8. The right to die VS. The right to life
9. Reducing inequality in education
10. Another first amendment issue?