'Touchstone - Student's Book 1' is the first level of the Touchstone series and is designed for beginning students. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, a database of language that includes everyday conversations and texts from newspapers and books, 'Student's Book 1' presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. A free Self-Study Audio CD/CD-ROM at the back of the book aims to give to the students further practice in listening, speaking, and vocabulary.