High-Beginning. Imagine scuba diving near the Florida coast and suddenly getting sucked into a huge pump of a nuclear power plant! Or writing love letters to someone every day for a year, only to see that person marry the mail carrier? The universal appeal of these real-life human-interest stories engages beginning ESL students with humor, poignancy, or astonishment, and helps them to become fluent readers. A proven success made even better in a new edition. Exercises have been refined and improved based on classroom experiences with the first edition. Readings are now available on audiocassette! Pre-reading questions. Exercises in vocabulary, comprehension, discussion, and writing. Carefully controlled vocabulary and structures. A variety of essential reading skills. Activities for Pair or small-group work.