<DIV><br>This book provides vocabulary, conversation tips, language learning tips, and discussion activities to help students debate on a wide variety of fairly non-controversial topics, from dining in or eating out, using the phone or e-mail, type A or type B, fiction or non-fiction, love at first sight or love over time, to diet or exercise.<br>Along with the discussion activities, the book contains some reading, writing, and vocabulary activities.<br>Each of the 30 units includes:<br> pre-debate discussion questions<br> new vocabulary words<br> a reading that outlines both sides of the debate<br> comprehension questions<br> discussion activities that include expressions used in debate-related speech acts and those pertaining to language learning<br> writing assignments<br> idiom and vocabulary review.<br></div>