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"University Success is an academic course designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environments. Authentic content is woven through reading, writing, and oral communication strands. The course - level by level - carefully scaffolds skills development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap.

University Success Reading, Intermediate to High-Intermediate Level provides intensive skill development and expanded application - tied to specific learning outcomes - that prepare students to become fluent, automatic, and competent readers. Explicit vocabulary instruction and extensive use of graphic organizers move students closer to academic autonomy. Authentic readings written by top professors from Stanford University provide real-life learning experiences.

FEATURES:
Parts 1 and 2 feature accessible, yet challenging, readings that allow students to engage with the content as they build essential reading and critical-thinking skills. Topics are aligned around five main subject areas: Bioethics, Business and Design, Zoology, History, and Chemical Engineering.
Part 3 features authentic readings, authored by the professors and built around the same five disciplines, that offer the practice and broader exposure to academic English that students at this level need to succeed.
Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

PART 1 Fundamental Reading Skills

U1 BIOETHICS: Active Reading
Fundamental Skills: Skimming to survey a text — Scanning to discover specific information
Integrated Skills: Annotating to identify key information
Language Skills: Choosing effective search terms
Vocabulary Strategy: Utilizing a dictionary to strengthen vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Read “How Useful Is Genetic Mapping and Sequencing”. Explain and defend your position on genetic mapping. Draw conclusions from a line graph about the cost of genome sequencing, and make predictions about the future of the practice.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Fundamental Skills: Identifying main ideas — Identifying supporting details
Integrated Skills: Paraphrasing
Language Skills: Using synonyms and equivalent expressions
Vocabulary Strategy: Building word families
Apply Your Skills: Read “The Secret to a Successful Crowd-Funding Campaign”. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of crowd-funding. Interpret a map showing trends in crowd-funding worldwide and make predictions about the future of crowd-funding.

U3 ZOOLOGY: Organizational Structures
Fundamental Skills: Making associations — Synthesizing information

Integrated Skills: Writing quotations to support ideas
Language Skills: Expressing contrast and concession
Vocabulary Strategy: Improving receptive and productive vocabulary
Apply Your Skills: Read “The Long-Term Effects of Poaching”. Predict the impact of poaching on future animal populations and discuss what can be done to stop the practice. Evaluate a map showing the illegal trade of ivory and create a visual based on statistics from the unit.

U4 HISTORY: Reading Fluency Fundamental Skills: Increasing smoothness and pace to build fluency — Developing accuracy
Integrated Skills: Reading aloud to build fluency and comprehension
Language Skills: Identifying thought groups
Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing collocations
Apply Your Skills: Read “Who Owns the Rosetta Stones”. Choose and defend a position on who should own the Rosetta Stone and other relies like it. Identify trends about location from a list of historically important sites and draw conclusions about the dates.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Research Articles
Fundamental Skills: Identifying cause and effect — Examining examples
Integrated Skills: Summarizing
Language Skills: Working with pro-forms
Vocabulary Strategy: Utilizing the Frayer model
Apply Your Skills: Read “How Land Moves”. Defend your position on the reception of Alfred Wegener’s theory and whether plate movement is a real concern today. Evaluate images showing Pangaea and then imagine how gravitational spreading might affect the world in the future.

PART 2 Critical Thinking Skills

U1 BIOETHICS: Facts and Opinions
Critical Thinking Skills: Identifying facts — Identifying opinions
Integrated Skills: Fact-checking
Language Skills: Examining language for subjectivity
Vocabulary Strategy: Guessing meaning from context
Apply Your Skills: Read “Reversing the Aging Process”. Explain your position on reversing the aging process and whether you think aging is a “problem” that needs to be fixed. Predict the impact of CRISPR on aging trends.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Inferences and Predictions
Critical Thinking Skills: Making inferences — Predicting
Integrated Skills: Identifying parts of a lecture
Language Skills: Interpreting hedging language
Vocabulary Strategy: Compiling a vocabulary journal
Apply Your Skills: Read “Working Together for a Better World”. Explore and explain why a deadline is important for development goals and what can be done to ensure quality education for everyone. Assess participation in the UN’s Global Compact, based on a map, and make predictions about future participation.

U3 ZOOLOGY: Classification
Critical Thinking Skills: Classifying information — Distinguishing points of view
Integrated Skills: Supporting a presentation with visuals
Language Skills: Identifying the language of parts and wholes
Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing connotative language
Apply Your Skills: Read “Elephant Listening: A Feeling in Their Bones”. Choose and defend a position on whether scientific research should receive government funding. Evaluate the similarities and differences between the same body part of two different species.

U4 HISTORY: Specialized Vocabulary
Critical Thinking Skills: Finding definitions and explanations in a text; Dealing with specialized vocabulary
Integrated Skills: Responding in an online forum
Language Skills: Demonstrating civil discourse online
Vocabulary Strategy: Using graphic organizers Apply Your Skills: Read “The Influence of History on Pop Culture”. Examine whether cultural values inform pop culture and whether accuracy is important in retelling history. Infer patterns from a timeline about historic events and make predictions about future rises and falls.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Processes Critical Thinking Skills: Analyzing time and space descriptions — Examining conditions
Integrated Skills: Using passive voice
Language Skills: Making use of conditionals
Vocabulary Strategy: Identifying collocations
Apply Your Skills: Read “Ice, Eggs, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics”. Explain how examples from the reading illustrate entropy, and use ice cream to explain it and the second law of thermodynamics. Analyze the relationship between temperature and entropy, and create a visual showing change with another substance.

PART 3 Extended Reading

U1 BIOETHICS: Right and Wrong

Readings:
1. Whole Genome Sequencing: Uses and Challenges
2. Considering Cognitive Enhancement

Research / Assignment: Small group presentation: Research the Precision Medicine Initiative, and then choose and support a position on the program.

U2 BUSINESS AND DESIGN: Best Practices

Readings:
1. So What Is a Business Model?
2. Branding 101

Research / Assignment:
Small group presentation: Choose and research a real company’s business plan to evaluate, and then complete a Business Model Canvas with your findings.

U3 ZOOLOGY: Elephant Behavior

Readings:
1. For Elephants, Being Social Has Costs and Benefits
2. The Role of Ritual in Male African Elephants

Research / Assignment: Pair presentation: Choose and research an animal group that lives in a matriarchal society and an animal group that lives in a patriarchal society, and then compare and contrast their social structures.

U4 HISTORY: Changing History

Readings:
1. Changing History by Accident: How Accidents Can Uncover Important Archaeological Finds
2. Seeking Discoveries: The Intentional Quest for Archaeological Finds

Research / Assignment:
Panel discussion: Choose and research the culture of either the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt around 196 BCE or the Roman Empire around 79 CE, and then discuss an aspect of the culture, using visuals.

U5 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Chemical Connections

Readings:
1. Physics of Scale: How are Candle Flames, Lake Flow, and Continental Drift Related?
2. From Molecules to Materials: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts

Research / Assignment: Small group presentation: Research gravity density flow and then choose an example that can best explain it, using visuals or realia.

For ESL learners at B1-B1+ (CEFR) levels.