Word Warm - ups 1 and 2, for example,
provide picture cues when concepts are introduced, but the pictures are absent for later tasks when the students are more proficient.
Which is not to say that Basic doesn't start out extremely well: For a full minute, the
picture provides a brief history of the French attempt at digging a canal in Panama in the 1880s scored to Bizet's Carmen; the problem is that by the end of Basic, the only justification for the Carmen
cue is that it's also packed to the gills with bull.