'American Headway' presents grammar and vocabulary's everyday. Grammatical structures are introduced in context, with questions that intends encourage students to work out the rules for themselves. A defined vocabulary syllabus concentrates on three key areas; learning new words in lexical sets; acquiring good habits for learning vocabulary; and developing vocabulary 'systems' such as sound and spelling relationships, and word formation. In every unit the reading and listening activities contextualize and bring together introduced language.