TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: VOLUME 1. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, c1986. ll0pp, paper, $6.95, ISBN 0-88996-108-5. CIP TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: TEACHER'S GUIDE: VOLUME 1. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, c1986. 66pp, paper, spiral bound, $12.50, ISBN 0-88996-109-3. TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: VOLUME 2. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, c1986. ll0pp, paper, $6.95, ISBN 0-88996-110-7. CIP TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: TEACHER'S GUIDE: VOLUME 2. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, c1986. 65pp, paper, spiral bound, $12.50, ISBN 0-88996-111-5. TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: VOLUME 3. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, c1986. ll0pp, paper, $6.95, ISBN 0-88996-112-3. CIP TALK, LOOK AND LISTEN: TEACHER'S GUIDE: VOLUME 3. Booth, David; Bob Cameron; and Pat Lashmar. 67pp, paper, spiral bound, $12.50, ISBN 0-88996-113-1. Grades 7-9 Reviewed by Robert W. Bruinsma Volume 14 Number 5 1986 September It is estimated that we speak about eighteen thousand words a day and listen to half as many again. We also watch an average of four hours of television per day and see countless other visual images on billboards, posters, magazines, record covers, video tapes, etc. It is abundantly clear that we spend a great deal more of our waking hours in talking, looking, and listening than we do in reading, writing, and ciphering, yet the school curriculum is disproportionately weighted in favour of the latter triumvirate of skills. The authors of Talk, Look, and Listen have developed a junior high school language arts curriculum that seeks to tip the balance toward the former. They have produced a winner. I had determined to spend part of a morning reviewing the student books and teachers' manuals of Talk, Look, and Listen 1, 2, and 3, but, before I realized it, the entire morning had slipped by as I was drawn into many of the fascinating chapters and language activities that make up this series. The program consists of three student books of twenty chapters each, and corresponding teachers' guides. Each guide has two parts. Part one is common to all three guides in that it provides an overview of the entire grades 7-9 program by way of scope and sequence charts for each grade, followed by ten pages of a clearly written program rationale, as well as the articulation of theoretically sound pedagogical principles and useful evaluation instruments. Part two of each manual is grade specific, and provides teaching suggestions for each chapter in the accompanying student text. The activities in the student texts move develop-mentally from focussing on the students' own communication (e.g., conversation and group discussion skills), to arranging (organizing) their own communication (e.g., exposition, interviewing, scripting), to interpreting the communications of others (e.g., cartoons, art, films, t.v.). The activities are interestingly introduced and developed, while the teachers' manuals provide clear and helpful instructions. The instructional emphasis is on small group work and on the integration of listening, speaking, and viewing across the curriculum. The teacher is required to select, organize, direct, and evaluate learning experiences in the areas of listening, speaking, and viewing, but the format of the guides is designed to free the teacher to relax and enjoy the program with the students. Page 9 of each teacher's manual states that Talk, Look, and Listen has been developed to assist the teacher in creating a sound speaking I listening I viewing program . . . [developmentally organized] . . . with material and activities created especially for junior highschool students. The authors and the publisher have succeeded admirably in their efforts and have done so using a large amount of uniquely Canadian content. Highly recommended. Robert W. Bruinsma, The King's College, Edmonton, Alba.