Speaking practice textbook for intermediate and advanced learners. The book consists of 30 lessons and 154 pages. It contains many lively, interesting topics that span the range of human experience, a number of sometimes outrageous opinions, dialogues between people with sharply different opinions and personalities and - what is most lacking in regular language-learning texts - a great deal of good sense. The material in this series is designed to help non-native speakers navigate socially in different situations.