The Teacher's Manual includes teaching suggestions, unit quizzes and answer keys. The electronic version of the Teacher's Manual is available at www.cambridge.org/makingconnections.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Making Connections 1 is a low intermediate academic reading and vocabulary skills book. It is intended for students who need to improve their strategic reading skills and build their academic vocabulary.

Each unit begins with an in-depth study of key skills and strategies for reading academic texts, helping students to learn how and when to use them.

Students learn strategies for approaching academic texts and skills for consciously applying the strategies.

Predicting the content of a text is critical for reading college books, and students practice this skill extensively before beginning each reading.

Each unit contains 3 readings, providing students with multiple opportunities to practice applying the skills and strategies.

Students learn how to use the skills and strategies by applying them to each text while they read it.

Students continually review the skills and strategies, helping them build up a valuable set of tools for reading academic texts.

Students expand their vocabularies by studying key words from each reading and academic words from each unit.

Each unit develops students' higher level thinking skills, such as evaluating and synthesizing information.

Students also learn to read more quickly, a valuable skill for extended academic texts.

The units end with a study of academic connectors, helping students learn how to navigate dense academic text." (Introduction, p. vii-ix)

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: Crossing Borders

Skills and Strategies 1: Finding the Meaning of Words
Reading 1: Borders on the Land, in the Ocean, and in the Air
Reading 2: Walls as Borders

Skills and Strategies 2: Finding the Topic of a Paragraph
Reading 3: Border Control

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Unit 2: Names

Skills and Strategies 3: Noticing Parts of Words
Reading 1: Where Does Your Name Come From?
Reading 2: Changing Names

Skills and Strategies 4: Finding he Main Idea of a Paragraph
Reading 3: Names in Business

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Unit 3: Food

Skills and Strategies 5: Collocations
Reading 1: Food from the Old World and the New World
Reading 2: Fast Food

Skills and Strategies 6: Finding Supporting Details
Reading 3: Table Manners

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Unit 4: Transportation

Skills and Strategies 7: Phrases
Reading 1: A Short History of Public Transportation
Reading 2: Bicycles for City Transportation

Skills and Strategies 8: Finding Contrasts
Reading 3: The Dangers of Driving

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Unit 5: Sleep

Skills and Strategies 9: Finding the Meaning of Words
Reading 1: The Importance of Sleep
Reading 2: Getting Enough Sleep

Skills and Strategies 10: Finding Causes and Effects
Reading 3: Your Body Clock

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Unit 6: Music

Skills and Strategies 11: Noticing Parts of Words
Reading 1: The Power of Music
Reading 2: Can Anyone Be a Musician?

Skills and Strategies 12: Organizing Notes in Times Lines
Reading 3: The Music Industry

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Unit 7: Natural Disasters

Skills and Strategies 13: Collocations
Reading 1: The Dark Side of Nature
Reading 2: The Predicting and Preparing for Natural Disasters

Skills and Strategies 14: Organizing Notes in Outlines
Reading 3: A Natural Disaster from Outer Space?

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Unit 8: Leisure

Skills and Strategies 15: Phrases
Reading 1: Work and Leisure
Reading 2: Leisure Activities

Skills and Strategies 16: Reading Quickly
Reading 3: Vacations

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Appendix 1 Key Vocabulary

Appendix 2 Index to Key Vocabulary

For low-intermediate students