General content
The book has paid sufficient attention to words and word study. There is no mistyped words, no grammatical error, and misused words. The words used in this book are appropriate to both the teachers and students.
Language is a tool used by society to communicate with one another. People acquire their L1 from their mother when they were a kid. English is taught in junior high school to prepare the students for the higher education. But more importantly, it is taught to make students understand and able to use English as means of communication.
With many reading, speaking and writing activities, this book has adequately address the students’ needs in learning English.
Most of the materials in the book are the things that students’ might have seen, or will likely see in their neighborhood. It is also contains the fresh contents. In other words, what students learn from this book are things that are really useful for them (contextual) and are up to date (current).
Having said that, the book is indeed lack of the special notation such as phonetic symbols, stress, and intonation marking. However, 7th grader students will not benefit much from such notation since they are still a beginner learner who learn through mimic and repetition rather than code-deciphering.