The CDs contain audio tracks to support activities included under Communication, Pronunciation and Listening in the Main Coursebook. The tasks cover a wide variety of text types and include a range of formal and informal situations with clear guidelines for teachers. The poems and plays in the Literature Reader are also read aloud on the CDs.

Communication: The CDs contain graded help with the structures and the vocabulary required in everyday conversation.

Pronunciation: Focussing on intelligibility in speech the CDs provide practice at word, phrase and sentence levels through reliable models .

Listening: a careful selection of texts—songs, poems, jokes, reports, plays, anecdotes, etc, from the Main Coursebook and the Literature Reader—provide opportunity for the development of listening comprehension and elocution skills.