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Inside Reading 4 : The Academic Word List in Context / Kent Richmond ; Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Director). - 2nd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 164 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Inside Reading .
"Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List
Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading.
High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students.
Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English." (Book Cover) CONTENTS Acknowledgments An Insider's Guide to Academic Reading UNIT 1: THE STRENGTH TO SURVIVE Content Area: Physiology Reading Skills: Skimming and Scanning; Outlining as You Read Reading 1: Animal Olympics Reading 2: Were Humans Born To Run? Vocabulary activities UNIT 2: ATTENTION, PLEASE Content Area: Psychology Reading Skills: Finding the Main Ideas, Isolating Causes and Effects Reading 1: From Gimmicks to FX Reading 2: A Big Gorilla Started It All Vocabulary Activities UNIT 3: MOVIE MAGIC Content Area: Film Studies Reading Skills: Annotating and Highlighting; Use of the Present Tense Reading 1: Why Does Music Move Us? Reading 2: Guitars: The Quest for Volume Vocabulary activities UNIT 5: SENSORY PERCEPTION Content Area: Neuroscience Reading Skills: Categorizing, Interpreting Charts, Table, and Graphs Reading 1: Virtual Odours? Reading 2: Pitch and Timbre Vocabulary activities UNIT 6: BOOM AND BUST Content Area: Economics Reading Skills: Describing Trends, Summarizing and Reporting Reading 1: Economic Bubbles Reading 2: Tulipomania Vocabulary activities UNIT 7: DECISIONS, DECISIONS Content Area: Psychology Reading Skills: Evaluating Generalizations, Understanding Analogies Reading 1: Blink
Reading 2: The Wisdom of Crowds Vocabulary activities UNIT 8: SEARCHING FOR SUCCESS Content Area: Business Reading Skills: Analyzing Advantages and Disadvantages; Identifying Ethics and Values Reading 1: The Swarm Bots Are Coming, Social Robots Reading 2: Robots "R" Us Vocabulary activities UNIT 10: THE MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND Content Area: Anthropology Reading Skills: Identifying Multiple Causes, Synthesizing Information from Several Sources Reading 1: Easter's End Reading 2: A Monumental Collapse? Vocabulary activities Index: Academic Word List
9780194416306 (Student book)
English Language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Vocabulary.
Inside Reading 4 : The Academic Word List in Context / Kent Richmond ; Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Director). - 2nd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 164 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Inside Reading .
"Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List
Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading.
High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students.
Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English." (Book Cover) CONTENTS Acknowledgments An Insider's Guide to Academic Reading UNIT 1: THE STRENGTH TO SURVIVE Content Area: Physiology Reading Skills: Skimming and Scanning; Outlining as You Read Reading 1: Animal Olympics Reading 2: Were Humans Born To Run? Vocabulary activities UNIT 2: ATTENTION, PLEASE Content Area: Psychology Reading Skills: Finding the Main Ideas, Isolating Causes and Effects Reading 1: From Gimmicks to FX Reading 2: A Big Gorilla Started It All Vocabulary Activities UNIT 3: MOVIE MAGIC Content Area: Film Studies Reading Skills: Annotating and Highlighting; Use of the Present Tense Reading 1: Why Does Music Move Us? Reading 2: Guitars: The Quest for Volume Vocabulary activities UNIT 5: SENSORY PERCEPTION Content Area: Neuroscience Reading Skills: Categorizing, Interpreting Charts, Table, and Graphs Reading 1: Virtual Odours? Reading 2: Pitch and Timbre Vocabulary activities UNIT 6: BOOM AND BUST Content Area: Economics Reading Skills: Describing Trends, Summarizing and Reporting Reading 1: Economic Bubbles Reading 2: Tulipomania Vocabulary activities UNIT 7: DECISIONS, DECISIONS Content Area: Psychology Reading Skills: Evaluating Generalizations, Understanding Analogies Reading 1: Blink
Reading 2: The Wisdom of Crowds Vocabulary activities UNIT 8: SEARCHING FOR SUCCESS Content Area: Business Reading Skills: Analyzing Advantages and Disadvantages; Identifying Ethics and Values Reading 1: The Swarm Bots Are Coming, Social Robots Reading 2: Robots "R" Us Vocabulary activities UNIT 10: THE MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND Content Area: Anthropology Reading Skills: Identifying Multiple Causes, Synthesizing Information from Several Sources Reading 1: Easter's End Reading 2: A Monumental Collapse? Vocabulary activities Index: Academic Word List
9780194416306 (Student book)
English Language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Vocabulary.