Great Ideas is a unique collection of absorbing and enjoyable fluency practice activities designed to improve the listening and speaking abilities of intermediate and advanced students of American English. Students are stimulated to express their ideas in English by a wide range of photographs, advertisements, maps, and drawings, together with varied and lively recordings. In the activities students solve problems, exchange information, describe their experiences, and participate in role plays and discussions. All the listening exercises and many of the speaking activities are task-based to give students a sense of realism and involvement. Specially designed communication activities motivate students to share information by providing each participant with some information the other does not have. Each activity encourages not merely language practice but genuine communication. The Teacher’s Manual contains detailed notes on the activities as well as vocabulary suggestions, glossaries, answers (where appropriate), transcripts of the recordings, and suggestions for follow-up activities.