The ABC News ESL Video Library is an interactive, task-based, integrated skills approach to language learning. Each video extract is supplemented by previewing quetions, vocabulary and listening tasks and discussion points. In addition, there are note-taking exercises, language focus sections, and additional reading extracts, quizzes and tasks. The work offers a discussion-based vocabulary-expansion course for upper-intermediate to advanced students. This work focuses on authentic news reports featuring major aspects of American culture, such as the changing American family, work habits and changes in the workplace, the American education system, and trends in American lifestyle.