Across Cultures is one of the best cross-cultural course books, especially for those classes that have already studied English in their first, extra year (bilingual secondaries).
This book has a wide range of cultural information on topics such as civilization, literature, music, language, history, geography, society, etc of the English-speaking world. I also strongly recommend it for FCE-preparation or for the Higher Mature Exams.
The book is organised into modules and there is guidance in the Teacher’s book if you only want to focus particularly on one of the countries.
Across Cultures is a new modular, flexible, user-friendly course which presents a wide variety of material on the English-speaking world. Traditional topics, such as geography and institutions, are fully covered, along with the most up-to-date themes and topics.