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.

"Making Connections 2 is an 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 4 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 agreeing and disagreeing with a writer 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: The News Media

Skills and Strategies 1: Understanding Vocabulary in Context
Reading 1: The News Media in the Past
Reading 2: The History of Electronic Media

Skills and Strategies 2: Finding Main Ideas
Reading 3: Citizen Journalism
Reading 4: Ethical Reporting

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Unit 2: Education

Skills and Strategies 3: Using the Dictionary
Reading 1: Education Around the World
Reading 2: Testing in Education

Skills and Strategies 4: Finding Supporting Details
Reading 3: Alternative Education
Reading 4: Skills for the Twenty-First Century

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Unit 3: The World of Business

Skills and Strategies 5: The Vocabulary of Numbers
Reading 1: Supply and Demand in the Global Economy
Reading 2: The Workforce of the Twenty-First Century

Skills and Strategies 6: Information in Graphs and Charts
Reading 3: Communication Technology in Business
Reading 4: Business and Sustainability

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Unit 4: Population Change and its Impact

Skills and Strategies 7: Collocations
Reading 1: Population Trends
Reading 2: Global Migration

Skills and Strategies 8: Scanning for Specific Information
Reading 3: The Growth of Cities
Reading 4: Challenges Facing the World's Cities

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Unit 5: Design in Everyday Life

Skills and Strategies 9: Vocabulary Study
Reading 1: The Design of Everyday Objects
Reading 2: Ergonomics

Skills and Strategies 10: Taking Notes from a Reading
Reading 3: The Design of Living Spaces
Reading 4: Fashion

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Unit 6: The Brain and Behavior

Skills and Strategies 11: Collocations
Reading 1: Brain Development and Function
Reading 2: The Teenage Brain

Skills and Strategies 12: Preparing for a Reading Test
Reading 3: The Male and Female Brain
Reading 4: Addiction and the Brain

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Appendix 1 Key Vocabulary from the Readings

Appendix 2 Index to Key Vocabulary

For intermediate ESL learners.