Includes index and appendices.

Unit 1 Staying Healthy -- Content Area: Physiology -- Writing Skills: Audience and Purpose; Signals to Show Order -- Writing Model: Three Fitness Routines -- Grammar: Simple Present Tense -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 2 Reading the Rings -- Content Area: Geography -- Writing Skills: Signal Words to Connect Ideas; Visual Aids -- Writing Model: A Report about Trees -- Grammar: Simple Past Tense -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 3 Life in Space -- Content Area: Biology -- Writing Skills: Predictions and Facts; Topic Sentences -- Writing Model: An Article about Worms in Space -- Grammar: Future Tense -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 4 What Should I Do? -- Content Area: Sociology -- Writing Skills: Problem-Solution Organization; Supporting Details -- Writing Model: A Personal Narrative about Career Choices -- Grammar: There Is/There Are -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 5 Green Beauty -- Content Area: Business -- Writing Skills: Paragraph Focus; Giving Examples -- Writing Models: An Online Business FAQs Page -- Grammar: Writing Questions -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 6 Ice Sheets in Mongolia -- Content Area: Engineering -- Writing Skills: Introductions; Cohesion -- Writing Model: An Analysis of an Ice Sheet Project -- Grammar: Conjunctions and Transitions -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 7 When the Earth Moves -- Content Area: Earth Science -- Writing Skills: Definitions; Summarizing -- Writing Model: A Summary of a Project Report about Earthquakes -- Grammar: Modal Verbs Can, May, Should, and Must -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 8 Painting a Story -- Content Area: Nutrition -- Writing Skills: Cause and Effect; Hooks -- Writing Model: Three Public Service Announcements about Healthy Food -- Grammar: This and That -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 9 Painting a Story -- Content Area: Art -- Writing Skills: Descriptive Language; Expressing an Opinion -- Writing Model: An Art Review of a Mural -- Grammar: Combining Sentences with Because -- Vocabulary activities

Unit 10 Greening Our Cities -- Content Area: Urban Planning -- Writing Skills: Arguing an Opinion; Parallel Structure -- Writing Model: A Persuasive Letter about a City Park -- Grammar: Negatives -- Vocabulary activities

"Key features of this edition include: Clear focus on writing structure guides the student step-by-step from word to sentence and paragraph level to produce independent, confident writers; Writing models in different genres allow students to see how different multiple text types function; Genre-based approach enables students to write for different audiences and purposes; Systematic acquisition of the entire Academic Word List through targeted receptive and productive activities creates independent word learners; Examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English; Grammar for Editing activities help students learn how to revisit and improve their writing; iTools Digital Resources for Teachers focus the class on key teaching points; e-Books with interactive features designed for language learning create a modern and inspiring learning environment" (Publisher's Website).