Teacher's Manual available on the publisher's website (registration required).

Includes bibliographical references and appendices.

Introduction

About the Authors and Contributors

Unit 1. Technology

Skills and strategies 1: Identifying Claims and Evidence
Reading 1: Technology and the Individual -- Reading 2: Virtual Reality and Its Real-World Applications

Skills and Strategies 2: Managing Unfamiliar Words
Reading 3: Life in 3D -- Reading 4: Mapmaking in the Digital Age

Skills and Strategies 3: Annotating a Reading
Reading 5: How Information Got Smart

Making Connections

Unit 2. Biomedical Science

Skills and strategies 4: Understanding Text Organization Reading 1: Health and Wellness on the Go -- Reading 2: Funding Global Health Projects

Skills and Strategies 5: Using the Dictionary to Find Word Meaning
Reading 3: Genomics -- Reading 4: A Case Study in Genomics

Skills and Strategies 6: Using Graphic Organizers
Reading 5: Drug Discovery in the Twenty-First Century

Making Connections

Unit 3. Business

Skills and Strategies 7: Making Inferences
Reading 1: Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding -- Reading 2: Outsourcing: Managing Labour Needs

Skills and Strategies 8: Identifying Language Chunks
Reading 3: The Language of Twenty-First Century Business -- Reading 4: Disruptive Innovation and the Challenges of Social Media

Skills and Strategies 9: Summarizing
Reading 5: New Thinking About the Right to Copy Art

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Unit 4. Science and Engineering

Skills and Strategies 10: Adjusting Reading Strategies to Reading Purpose
Reading 1: The Pursuit of Strength -- Reading 2: Biomimetics

Skills and Strategies 11: Retaining Vocabulary
Reading 3: Blue-sky Research -- Reading 4: Frugal Innovation

Skills and Strategies 12: Preparing for a Test
Reading 5: Selections from 'An Engineer's Alphabet'

Making Connections

Appendix 1 Key Vocabulary from the Readings -- Appendix 2 Index to Key Vocabulary -- Appendix 3 Improving Your Reading Speed

References

Credits

"Making Connections Second edition Level 4 Student's Book develops key reading skills and strategies such as recognizing patterns of textual organization, understanding how writers create connections within and across sentences, and learning how to process academic language and vocabulary. It features high-interest topics, including technology, biomedical science, business, and engineering. Each student's book contains a single-use code for access to audio files of the readings in the CLMS." (Publisher's Website)