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Review title: A textbook that rates a C minus
Product review: As an ESL teacher, I have found this heavily-promoted book very disappointing. Some of its many deficiencies: (1)overuse of proper names, which are difficult for students and distract them from the substance; (2) overuse of vocabulary irrelevant to the lives of urban adult immigrants (skiing, skating, working in the yard, drinking lemonade, vacationing in Paris); (3) stilted and artificial reading selections; (4) sketches depicting dated fashions or artifacts (bell-bottom jeans, large Afro hairdos, record players, dial telephones); (5) introduction of common errors in grammar or word meaning without identifying them as errors ("how come?" as an alternative to "why?"; "nauseous" in a context that requires "nauseated"--actually I think that example may be from Book 2, but I have the same criticisms of all four books in this series.)
